Letting Amazon buy MGM studios would be bad for independent filmmakers, and the people who love their films. It could make today’s bad situation worse
SVOD (Subscription Video on Demand)
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How important is streaming media to documentarians in Europe? Really important. At the International Documentary Festival at Amsterdam (IDFA) last
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By March, COVID-19 had been declared a pandemic and it effectively changed the world. But the virus didn't change WarnerMedia's launch date for their
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The elephant in the room is Netflix. Just ask Marc Mauceri, vice president of indie film distributor First Run Features. This sentiment is reflected
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In the face of perceived dominance in the documentary marketplace by such major SVODs as Netflix and Amazon, an international coalition of
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Since its launch in Australia in 2008 as a DVD distributor in the academic market, then as a streaming platform two years later, Kanopy has rapidly