Looking for iTunes Distro For Your Short Film? Read On:
Here is a great article that clarifies the painful hoops that film makers (this particular case highlights short films) have to go through in getting their work up on the iTunes Movie Store:
there aren't many ways to get your short film on itunes. in fact at the moment there basically seems to be just one. however, that may be changing.
until now getting your short picked up by shorts international, the biggest short film distributor in the world, was about the only way to get your film on itunes, as unlike with music, itunes only deals with major aggregators when adding short film content.
however recently scott kirsner over at cinema tech reported that a new independent short film had made a deal directly with apple. scott has been (rightly) critical of apple not being more accessible to indies for selling content (as opposed to free podcasting), and this seemed like a major step:
until now getting your short picked up by shorts international, the biggest short film distributor in the world, was about the only way to get your film on itunes, as unlike with music, itunes only deals with major aggregators when adding short film content.
however recently scott kirsner over at cinema tech reported that a new independent short film had made a deal directly with apple. scott has been (rightly) critical of apple not being more accessible to indies for selling content (as opposed to free podcasting), and this seemed like a major step:
"The Tribe," a short film on the connection between Barbie dolls and Judaism, will start selling on iTunes next week, according to filmmaker Tiffany Shlain's Web site. (It played at Sundance in 2006.) That makes it one of the first indie films to show up on iTunes without going through an aggregator like Shorts International. It'll sell for $1.99. Shlain worked directly with Apple on the arrangement.unfortunately it's not true. i tried contacting apple myself. this isn't easy to do as there's no contact information given on their site for short film hosting, so i did the next best thing and emailed the music contact. i received a short reply telling me to contact another person at apple, glen, which i did. he responded with this:
"Contact Linda at Shorts International"when i replied and explained i'd already done that but i'd heard tiffany schlain went direct, i got at little more clarification.
"She went through another aggregator - very much a trial case only."
the rest of the article can be found here:
http://deep-structure.blogspot.com/2007/10/getting-your-short-film-on-itunes.html
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