Distributiors wanted, for my finished film entitled "Secret Insanity"; this horror/thriller genre of 84 minutes is now looking for distributors...Territory, worldwide.For a free screener or more information please send me an email, or visit my web site: www.windingroadpictures.comThank youChristian

HelloI'm Christian Gavin, and I am offering interested people a free copy of my last feature film entitled "Secret Insanity", a horror/thriller film. Of course you will understand that the number of copies is very limited. So please leave me a mailing address so I can mail you a copy. Visit my web site at the www.windingroadpictures.com and send me an email or simply watch the trailer on the project page. Thank you

We love the internet, don't we? We love our YouTubes and our iTunes and iPods and our internet capable phones and being able to watch clips of our favorite celebrities online anytime we want. AFTRA loves it too. And so does AMPTP. And therein lies the problem. The Hollywood Reporter says that the use of new-media clips and the participation of AFTRA members in new-media productions are among the issues holding up the latest round of negotiations between the two groups.

Everybody loves Imax movies. Unless you're sitting in the front row for one. Whether you're scoping out a 3D simulation of what it was like when dinosaurs ruled the earth or seeing your dreams come to fruition with The Dark Knight, everybody loves Imax movies. Seeing how films are setting record box office numbers for Imax releases (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) and how more film sequences are being shot in 70mm Imax format (previously mentioned Dark Knight), Regal Cinemas, owned by Regal Entertainment, has announced a deal with Imax to build 31 more Imax theaters by 2010.

I've been hearing people mention WE7 a lot lately, the new ad/message supported, free, legal, DRM-free music download service. PR: "Rock legend Peter Gabriel has teamed up with technology entrepreneur Steve Purdham and financial authority John Taysom to bring advertisers a new ad delivery mechanism. The platform, We7, uses free music downloads as a vehicle to communicate personalised advertising messages, allowing brands to intimately connect with consumers on- and offline."

Recently, techcrunch reviews a specialized search engine called Middio that focuses on music videos. It indexes the videos uploaded from YouTube (the music videos and only the music videos) and displays search results for your favorite recording artist. While it's still in BETA, the reviewers claim it works pretty fast.

David Kaplan at PaidContent.org put together a nice summary of how HBO is leveraging cable partners (including both Comcast and Cox in addition to Time Warner Cable, its sister company). The strategy includes everything from broadband trivia, to free VOD offering short form original films as well as other internet video strategies.

For creative people, there's often an ongoing tension between how much effort one should devote to creating great content by telling original stories, and how much effort one should put towards marketing/promotion of your creative project...in effect, "pitching" the story to the industry.

It's so easy to make mistakes as a media company. So many of them are run by ludites who have a real passion for quality content...and, sadly, that's simply not enough today.

Succeeding in tomorrow's media world is as much about creating quality content that appeals to your constituency as it is about having a really forward-thinking distribution strategy.