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BitTorrent to Distribute Duke City Shootout Films Online
BitTorrent, Inc., home to the world's
leading peer-assisted file distribution platform, has announced its
support for the 7th annual Duke City Shootout, the first international
script-to-screen digital filmmaking competition. BitTorrent is
collaborating
with the Digital Filmmaking Institute (DFI), which oversees the Duke
City
Shootout week-long filmmaking festival, to deliver all of the digital
shorts
from the past six festivals. Beginning today, the shorts, 42 in total,
will
be available for download at www.bittorrent.com.
BitTorrent's peer-assisted technology provides an effective platform to
quickly publish and download rich, high-quality content on the Internet
to a
worldwide audience. Thus, BitTorrent is a natural partner to facilitate
the
online distribution of the catalog of Duke City digital short films.
Under
the agreement, BitTorrent will have the distribution rights to old
films,
new films and animation productions created and backed by DFI or the
Shootout.
"By teaming with DFI and supporting festivals such as the Duke City
Shootout, BitTorrent is giving independent artists an audience they
wouldn't
otherwise reach," said Ashwin Navin, President of BitTorrent. "Although
festivals showcase some of the best entertainment created today, most of
these films never reach a global audience. We expect the indie film
community to gain tremendously from the advent of high-quality Internet
video distribution."
Started in 2000, the Duke City Shootout is an annual short filmmaking
competition. Each year, the Festival conducts a worldwide search for
12-minute original screenplays and selects seven winners. The winning
writers are then invited to Albuquerque, New Mexico in July to shoot,
edit
and debut their movies, all in one week. The festival and its partners
provide cast, crew, digital cameras, locations, catering, editing
facilities, producers and industry mentors. This year's Festival takes
place
July 21 to 29.
"By partnering with BitTorrent, our participating artists have access to
the
world's most efficient distribution platform for rich digital content,"
said
Reggie Russell, CEO of DFI. "Furthermore, with 65 million BitTorrent
users
worldwide, Shootout filmmakers both past and present will now be able to
showcase their works beyond the confines of the festival."
Updated: 06/19/2006
Additional Contest Info:
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!Eternal Blessings
A dying woman enters a time portal to confront her criminal past, only to realize that what she seeks is in the present--but getting back is proving harder than she thought.
Unknown Black Assailant
As the crack epidemic erupts across 1980s small-city America, a Black rookie detective investigating a string of gang murders in Little Rock, Arkansas uncovers a CIA-backed arms-for-drugs conspiracy—forcing him to choose between protecting his family and exposing a truth that could destroy him.
SETTLING THE BOOKS
A cautious investigator is none the less drawn in, along with four other heirs, by the reading of a billionaire rare book dealer’s will, they’re sealed in an airtight panic room, and with only four hours air, must solve the centuries-old mystery contained in the book ‘The Castilian Cypher’ in order to escape.
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
A former preacher, haunted by the tragic rape/murder of his twin sister, spirals into darkness as supernatural forces, both angelic and demonic, wage war for his soul.
Lab Rats
An anonymous organization uses an ***AI Bot*** to moderate a Focus Group on the topic of ***Fake***.
She Curses Like a Sailor
A thought-provoking view of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York.
Lady Diogenes of the Shadow
Three retired ladies candidly discuss their bizarre neighbor over morning coffee.
Perfect Beau
A Brainiac Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her gorgeous girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her university's senior class science project.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other pathetic souls) after their third offense.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy. A razor-sharp satiric view of the laughable state of modern psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum.
