![]() Note: We’ll be watching some of these with you via social media soon. In 1986, The Terror of Tiny Town was the first film featured on Canned Film Festival, a late night television show featuring the worst movies ever made. On a New Mexico movie location seeking an LA runaway, ex-jock P-I Harry (Gene Hackman) with director Ziegler (Edward Binns) then stunt pilot Ellman (Anthony Costello) who knew the girl, future TV and movie director Dennis Dugan as the kid at the bar, in Arthur Penn’s Night Moves. ![]() SLAM brings you an exhaustive list of every basketball movie and documentary we can think of-along with where you can watch it-to fill the void. Public health officials are urgently advising everyone to hunker down and practice social distancing, which means a lot of downtime with no live basketball to watch. These were necessary measures to stem the spread. I was awarded the British Council’s Creative Entrepreneur Award in 2013 and named in the Hospital Club’s h.Club100 list of the most innovative and influential people in the creative industries.As we all know by now, the coronavirus pandemic is real and its effects are far-reaching. The NBA season has been suspended, March Madness has been canceled, and many state high school tournaments were brought to an abrupt end. I spoke at dozens of film festivals, from Cannes to Sundance, and also tech conferences like the Edinburgh Turing festival. I wrote frequent case studies and blog posts and contributed guest columns to IndieWire, Screen and more. ![]() I was interviewed in all major trades ( Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Screen) and in the Wall Street Journal and The Observer. Night Moves (1975)Director - Arthur PennWriter - Alan SharpCASTGene Hackman - Harry MosebyJennifer Warren - PaulaEdward Binns - Joey ZieglerHarris Yulin - Ma. I developed extensive networks with film production and distribution executives around the world and negotiated contracts with British Film Institute, Icon, Sigma Films, Curzon Artificial Eye, Kino Lorber, Drafthouse Films, Wolfe Video, Omniverse, Filmhouse, IDFA and many more. I secured content promotion partnerships with major publishers including The Guardian and Metro US, where we offered lucrative revenue-sharing opportunities in competition with CPM advertising media. Hundreds of distributors, filmmakers and affiliates earned revenue through the service. I grew the company to 250,000 registered users with thousands of films available globally. With the help of Distrify's Chairman, David Nicholas Wilkinson, we struck an exclusive deal to launch Terry Gilliam's short film The Wholly Family and lined up The Guardian as a promotional partner. I raised more than half a million euros in grant funding from EU MEDIA, Nesta, Creative Scotland, Scottish Enterprise and the UK’s Technology Strategy Board. As CEO, I was in charge of content acquisitions, project management, engineering, product development, customer support, user experience, sales, business development, marketing and publicity. With this invention, I founded Distrify, the pioneer in direct-distribution for independent films. My technology was the first to allow movie purchases directly within the Facebook platform. The Distrify Player allowed viewers to purchase movies wherever they were embedded and tracked affiliate revenue when anyone shared a film. I invented the first shareable video trailer with built-in web-shop for digital rentals, downloads, movie tickets, DVDs and other merchandise. I founded the company in 2010 and it was active until 2014. Distrify was one of the first direct distribution platforms for film and video.
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