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(From left) Daniel Berger, President at Oscilloscope Pictures; Sarah Mosses, Founder & CEO of Together Films; John Nein, Senior Programmer & Director of Strategy, Sundance Film Festival; Sharon 'Rocky' Roggio, Founder & Creative Director, 1946 Studios; and moderator Iddo Patt, CEO & Co-Founder of Eventive (Photo: Eventive)

Can Direct-to-Audience Distribution Give Indie Films a New Path to Theatres?

For decades, the independent film industry has operated according to a familiar hierarchy. A filmmaker completes a project, premieres at a major festival, secures a distributor, launches a theatrical run, and hopes that audiences discover the film through cinemas, home entertainment releases or – mo…

We Are Parable: Experience Over Everything

Their first-ever event at East London’s Stratford Picturehouse completely sold out in 2013. In 2017, directing legend Spike Lee collaborated on a central London event with them. In early 2020, they were recipients of a Lodestar award from Film London. And even now, half way through one of the most c…

Virtual Cinema Screening

Cinemas Partner With VoD Platforms for Virtual Cinema Screenings

It’s been said before and will continue to be said, but these are unprecedented times in the cinema industry. Over 94% of the world’s commercial cinemas are presently closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Exhibitors of all sizes are having to find increasingly inventive ways to stay relevan…

Rajesh Ramachandran of Qube Cinema Discusses Qube Wire

CJ Interview: Qube Cinema’s Rajesh Ramachandran On The Past, Present and Future of Qube Wire

One of the products and services that made a big splash at CineEurope in 2017 was Qube Wire, which was just being launched commercially by its developer, Qube Cinema. Some of the buzz around Qube Wire surely had to do with curiosity; both over what the new offering was all about, and why a companyRe…

Randy Blotky of DCDC

CJ Interview: Looking To The Future and the Past with Randy Blotky, CEO of DCDC

When the idea to distribute motion pictures via satellite through a low-cost cooperative called the Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition (DCDC) was first being floated in the late 2000’s, it received a fair share of skepticism from certain cinema operators and content providers. It’s not that deliv…