The closing activity at Ma l'amoure no – XXVII Festival Internazionale Cinema e Donne – Firenze
Presented by: Laboratorio Immagine Donna

Women filmmakers, distributors and the press meet to discuss the future of Women's Cinema.

• Film Festivals must evolve to survive.
• The Internet is the new frontier in film distribution
• How can filmmakers host their own site and provide streaming video at low or no cost?
• Needed: low cost methods of tapping into Internet distribution for alternative and truly independent work.
  • First generation of websites proved too expensive to be profitable - filmfilm.com, iFilm.com, AlwaysI.com, etc.
  • Second generation with new business model is just beginning - YouTube only a few months old.
• Needed: a forum for the exchange of new ideas, development and marketing
• Needed: a means of building and keeping audience interest