You can't walk five feet these days with tripping over a new way to monetize and release your online video content, but a newly launched website is hoping there's room for at least one more pay-to-view platform. Yekra, a distribution service focusing on connect creators to potential viewers, has launched, with a full slate of feature films available for purchase. Yekra is hoping to make a big splash with its launch, and it has already raised $3 million in venture capital to support its launch. The site touts itself for its AffiliateConnect technology, which it claims has the ability to connect the site's offerings to fans who will be interested in watching it. The greatest example of this technology's capabilities has been Thrive; What On Earth Will It Take?, a film around which Yekra launched its beta back in 2011. The film has been viewed around 12 million times since then. Yekra is also DRM-enabled,...
- 5/10/2013
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
"And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy." ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"
Greetings from the apocalypse! This is an exciting week for me, since I'm making my art gallery debut and all — I'm celebrating with two docs covering cool artistic subcultures (gig posters and tattooing), as well as a hella ton of Mother's Day recommends. Let's get to it, shall we, old sport? Yep yep.
Friday, May 10
Pow! In Theaters
Glam filmmaker Baz Luhrmann's reimagining of F. Scott Fitzgerald's timeless Jazz-age romance "The Great Gatsby" looks like my 11th grade book report had sex with a disco ball, but that's par for the course. Luhrmann had previously razzle-dazzled "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet" and reunites with Leonardo DiCaprio as enigmatic rich dude Jay Gatsby, clinging to the memory of a past dalliance with Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan). Clinging tragically,...
Greetings from the apocalypse! This is an exciting week for me, since I'm making my art gallery debut and all — I'm celebrating with two docs covering cool artistic subcultures (gig posters and tattooing), as well as a hella ton of Mother's Day recommends. Let's get to it, shall we, old sport? Yep yep.
Friday, May 10
Pow! In Theaters
Glam filmmaker Baz Luhrmann's reimagining of F. Scott Fitzgerald's timeless Jazz-age romance "The Great Gatsby" looks like my 11th grade book report had sex with a disco ball, but that's par for the course. Luhrmann had previously razzle-dazzled "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet" and reunites with Leonardo DiCaprio as enigmatic rich dude Jay Gatsby, clinging to the memory of a past dalliance with Daisy Buchanan (Carey Mulligan). Clinging tragically,...
- 5/10/2013
- by Max Evry
- NextMovie
"Tattoos used to be a sign of rebellion; now they're just a sign that you went to the mall," says a smarmy reporter in a news clip that is woven into the documentary Tattoo Nation. That flippant dismissal is turned on its head as director Eric Schwartz tracks the origins and evolution of Black and Gray, the style of tattoo art born in Southern California when prison culture and Latino street culture pollinated one another. Illustrated over the course of 90 minutes is a multi-layered art form that, for those who get tattooed and those who wield the ink apparatus, is part spiritual statement, part artful expression, and far more than a mall-rat trend. Filled with interview footage of the OGs (Ed Hardy, Charlie Cartwright, Jack Rudy, Freddy Negrete) who forged the style that has bec...
- 4/5/2013
- Village Voice
Tracing the family tree of one type of tattoo artistry back to its roots in prisons and other places of ill repute, Eric Schwartz's Tattoo Nation proves more serious about history than expected, spending ample time on light sociology before putting its most mindblowingly intricate body art onscreen. Enjoyable face time with the grandfathers of "black-and-gray" tattooing makes the doc a colorful ride even for non-fanatics, but those serious enough to attend conventions and subscribe to tattoo mags will be its most reliable audience. The oldest practitioners interviewed here got their start when putting permanent ink on
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- 3/28/2013
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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