Renewed calls to shake up release windows
The chorus of voices calling for an end to the traditional, rigid release windows in Australia keeps getting louder.
Distribution consultant Thomas Mai today described the 120-day gap between theatrical and home entertainment as .obnoxious,. observing, it .doesn.t work anymore..
Mai was speaking at a panel entitled The Director as Distributor at the Australian Directors Guild conference, where the virtues of self-distribution were extolled. The panel was moderated by researcher/writer Laura Carroll Harris, whose essay Not at a Cinema Near You: Australia.s film distribution problem, has just been published by Currency Press.
Launching the essay on Thursday night, entertainment lawyer Ian Robertson backed Harris. argument that Australians must find new ways of reaching audiences. .The current system of distributing Australian-financed feature films is substantially broken, and I know that savvy and experienced Australian film makers are aware of this and are preparing for the new world ahead,...
Distribution consultant Thomas Mai today described the 120-day gap between theatrical and home entertainment as .obnoxious,. observing, it .doesn.t work anymore..
Mai was speaking at a panel entitled The Director as Distributor at the Australian Directors Guild conference, where the virtues of self-distribution were extolled. The panel was moderated by researcher/writer Laura Carroll Harris, whose essay Not at a Cinema Near You: Australia.s film distribution problem, has just been published by Currency Press.
Launching the essay on Thursday night, entertainment lawyer Ian Robertson backed Harris. argument that Australians must find new ways of reaching audiences. .The current system of distributing Australian-financed feature films is substantially broken, and I know that savvy and experienced Australian film makers are aware of this and are preparing for the new world ahead,...
- 11/8/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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