Showing a Video During a Presentation: Best Practices
It just sounds simple. When presenting online, it becomes a challenge.
A few weeks ago I participated in a fascinating online presentation by sound artist Meira...
Webinar or Meeting? — How to conduct a successful film Q&A
The healthy path to decision-making
The instructional part of introducing our platform for virtual film screenings and Q&A to clients is always divided to two: The technical part and the conceptual part.The...
My First Virtual Film Festival
Insights from the tech guy
In early March 2020, we started our platform for screening films and meeting filmmakers. Note that I wrote started and not launched. Launching...
Balancing Between Film Copyright Protection and User Experience
Does security have to be inconvenient?
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You’re a filmmaker or a film distributor. You want to protect your film. That’s obvious. At the same time,...
Solving Timing Dilemmas in Online Film Screening Events
It’s all about balancing and coordinating time frames
After close to 100 online film screenings in a record time of 4 months, which included developing and pushing...
A Real Interactive Film Festival
A Case Study
After receiving good responses to the article about the creation of hybrid film festivals, we decided to take it to the next level:...
Why Virtual Cinema is Actually Saving Filmmakers
An accidental revolution
The film industry went into a standstill during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was not only the imposed lockdowns all over the world...
Hybrid Film Festivals: The Game Changes
In recent months I’ve been speaking to many film festival directors and producers. Rather than trying to sell them anything, most of the time...
Between a Virtual Cinema and VOD
Thoughts and concepts
When more and more film festivals turn to online screenings — either as a replacement or as an addition to in-person (physical)...
Organizing an online screening with available free tools
A review of free available tools for conducting an elaborate virtual event