Search Results for 'Film'

YouTube Plots 'Your Film Festival' for Users

YouTube is launching a film festival that will play out online and ultimately send 10 finalists to the Venice Film Festival. The Google Inc.-owned video site announced Thursday that Your Film Festival will take submissions of short films [...]

Posted On : Jan, 20 2012 | Comments : 0

YouTube film Life in a Day coming to theaters

One year ago YouTube viewers were asked to upload a video reflecting a day in their lives. According to the filmmakers, people from all over the world uploaded 80,000 videos with 4500 hours of footage. The result is the 90-minute doc [...]

Posted On : Jul, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

YouTube-powered film ‘Life in a Day’ set to premiere

YouTube has become a library of human experience, with hundreds of thousands of people documenting every moment of the minutiae in their lives. There are kittens dreaming, babies biting their brothers, beaux proposing — hours and ho [...]

Posted On : Jul, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Now playing, short films on YouTube

There is a new buzz among movie buffs. Here is what they do: Connect to the internet, go to YouTube’s Screening Room and pick from its huge collection of short films. These films are free and are mostly original content. Interest [...]

Posted On : Jun, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Andrei Tarkovsky's Long, Confusing, Wonderful Films Hit YouT...

Solaris starts slowly. The Soviet original, filmed in 1972 and directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, opens with achingly apparent deliberation. The camera glides over running water, foggy plants, and gnarled trees. Protagonist Kris Kelvin (Donata [...]

Posted On : May, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

You Tube Doing Film Rental Service in US

Users in the United States will be able to view films from the 2009 and 2010 Sundance Film Festival on YouTube from tomorrow until Sunday, January 31 The Sundance Festival gives independent filmmakers a chance to show their work. Onl [...]

Posted On : Jan, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

Youtube success sparks police film bursary

A bursary system for up-and-coming film-makers is to be established on the back of the success of a safety video that has become an internet phenomenon, police said today. Profits generated from the anti-texting and driving film Cow will b [...]

Posted On : Oct, 31 2009 | Comments : 0

National Film Board creates "YouTube" for Canadian films

In a freebie double-bonanza Canadians now have access to a considerable chunk of the National Film Board’s (NFB) library via an online streaming site that makes use of an open source Flash-based video player. The NFB is marking 70 ye [...]

Posted On : Jan, 22 2009 | Comments : 0

YouTube to show full-length MGM films

Online video-sharing website, YouTube has struck a golden deal with Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's (MGM) to show full length movies in their archives.The collaboration is mainly aimed at earning advertising revenue for both YouTube [...]

Posted On : Nov, 11 2008 | Comments : 0

YouTube to post full-length MGM films

YouTube, the largest video-sharing website, will show full-length television shows and films from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's archives in its latest step to boost advertising revenue by adding professional programing, the company told Reuters on [...]

Posted On : Nov, 10 2008 | Comments : 0

It Has Begun: Film Makes World Premiere on YouTube

Earlier this year, I had the chance to see Wayne Wang's The Princess of Nebraska at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival but regretfully missed it (instead, I saw a film directed by Princess' cinematographer Richard [...]

Posted On : Sep, 15 2008 | Comments : 0

YouTube opens screening room for indie filmmakers

Google Inc.'s YouTube is setting up a virtual screening room to bring the work of independent filmmakers to a global audience. Struggling filmmakers already use YouTube to kick-start viral marketing campaigns. The new feature, which debuts [...]

Posted On : Jun, 19 2008 | Comments : 0

Indonesia blocks access to YouTube over anti-Koran film

At least four Indonesian firms providing Internet services have blocked access to the YouTube Web site for carrying a Dutch lawmaker's film that accuses the Koran of inciting violence, an information ministry official said on Tuesday. The [...]

Posted On : Apr, 10 2008 | Comments : 0

Pakistan bans YouTube over anti-Islamic film clips

Pakistan's government has banned access to the video-clip website YouTube because of anti-Islamic movies posted on the site, an official said yesterday. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority told the country's 70 internet service provid [...]