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Promises, promises.... Let’s see what REALLY is in this for YOU:

Submit your film worldwide

If you’re a filmmaker or screenwriter, now you can submit your work to festivals and competitions worldwide, quickly, easily, and economically. Only pay the entry fee. Everything else is free, like creating your Projects and Online Press Kits.

Order professional industry screeners

You can also order professional industry screeners to be shipped on-demand with your submission.

Build your audience

Withoutabox brings filmmakers, film festivals, and other industry players together in the ultimate business and social network. Participate and help grow it to build your reach.

Promote

Create and manage your complete Online Press Kit, with media-rich trailers, photos, bios, reviews, and more. Fully integrated with Filmsubmission and Audience. Also includes express syndication to Google Video.

Distribute

As a Rightsholder, you don't need to get permission from the big studios anymore. Withoutabox is opening channels to support direct distribution via Theatrical, Broadcast, DVD, VOD, Mobile, and more. The ultimate in Do-It-Yourself distribution? we'll see.

Pre-sell tickets!

Soon (how soon?) filmmakers, distributors, and exhibitors will be able book theaters and guarantee a profit before their film releases. With the patent-pending Critical Mass Ticketing, the show goes on when the audience demands it. You can even use Critical Mass Ticketing to arrange travel to your favorite festivals. How COOL is this???

Expose your film to Film Finders

Access premium rights tracking and personalized consulting worldwide. Since 1988, Film Finders has helped studios, producers, distributors, international sales agents, governments, and film festival programmers to represent and acquire feature films.

Experiment

If that’s not enough -- and if have any time left -- experiment with the cutting edge of new world distribution. Withoutabox is seeking intrepid filmmakers, distributors, and exhibitors who are eager to find new paths to profit through technology and innovation. Are you one of them?

VCR Tapes to Digital - The iMemories Deal

Transferring home videos from video cassettes and other tape formats is a pain. iMemories helps you move your dusty 8 and 16 mm analog videos to digital on a DVD. It also has a web site for sharing videos online with your friends.



A fun and useful feature on the site is the iMemories Movie. With Hollywood style editing, visual and sound effects added to your movies by one of their professionals, you can make them into truly polished masterpieces. You can even order customized DVD cases.

However, none of this comes cheap. Membership is $99.99 a year; a short, 1 song video is $299.99; 2+ song videos are $249.99 a song; extended (i.e. "deluxe") videos are $99.99 a minute.

Must say all these xx.99-s insult my intelligence!

Cybercast credit: YouTube

The Birth and Death of the Universe

This gorgeous video is from the Hubble Space Telescope DVD, titled "15 Years of Discovery, Chapter 8, BIRTH AND DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE." There are 85 videos like that on a new channel from SpaceTelescope.org, via VEOH.





The Universe is gloriously transparent to visible light over journeys lasting billions of years. However, in the last few microseconds before light arrives at telescope mirrors on Earth it must travel through our turbulent atmosphere and the fine cosmic details become blurred. It is this same atmospheric turbulence that makes the stars appear to twinkle on a dark night.

Putting a telescope in space is one way of evading this problem. In addition to collecting visible light from its orbit high above the atmosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope also observes the infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths that are completely filtered out by the atmosphere.

Hubble, a collaboration between NASA and ESA, has made some of the most dramatic discoveries in the history of astronomy. From its vantage point 360 miles above the Earth, it can detect light with 'eyes' 5 times sharper than the best ground-based telescopes, and looks deep into space where some of the most profound mysteries are still buried in the mists of time.

Way to go, NASA and ESA!

Broadcast credit: VEOH