Press Release

November 5th 2007

Submit, view, download and acquire films: several thousands of users distribute more than 10,000 short and feature films via the online b2b platform reelport.com. Renowned international festivals and satellite TV, VoD and web-TV services view and acquire films in reelport’s online film catalogue.

reelport.com is the only platform world-wide that enables a complete digital submission process for buyers and sellers, film festivals and film archives. Rightsholders from all over the world submit and upload their films onto reelport.com. The films are stored on a server and from there fed into the online film catalogue on reelport.com.

Thus reelport’s partner film festivals receive their submissions: they simply open a call on reelport.com; filmmakers and producers then submit their films to these festivals. So far, reelport has 30 partner film festivals, e.g., the International Short Film Festival of Oberhausen (Germany), the Tampere Film Festival (Finland) or the Vila do Conde Short Film Festival (Portugal), as well as non-European festivals such as the Karachi International Film Festival in Pakistan or the International Film Festival Mumbai - one of the most important film festivals in India.

In addition to the submission to festivals, reelport also offers a new b2b-service: since the beginning of September, rightsholders may also submit their films for commercial exploitation. The British satellite TV channel propeller TV, the Swedish and German VoD-providers Glimz.net and Shortstream, the Berlin Web-TV channel flimmer TV, as well as the Spanish and British multimedia platforms shortz! and Future Shorts are calling for submissions. Further calls for submission will follow soon.

Every day, several thousands of users from the international film industry – filmmakers, producers, distributors, Web-TV channels, etc. – use the online film catalogue with more than 10.000 entries to present their films, acquire licenses and host and deliver film files.

Reelport thus offers new possibilities for filmmakers and producers to distribute their films independently. In addition, festivals and buyers from all over the world have access to a great number of high quality films from professional filmmakers.

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"I think this path you're going down may be the answer to a very urgent question, namely: the media are changing, the way we look is changing and the way we want to be entertained is changing. Thefefore, we -as filmmakers- have to serve our films differently. Your initiative can be a major step, and for reelport an important increase in pace. Reelport not only as content distributor, put also as provider. I can definitely see this work. The future will need people like you." Kurt Augustyns, Belgium

"...reelport is a great site and great project. All the best." Daniel R., Slovakia.

"Thank you very much, and I have to specially thank you all for having such a great portal and service. If I count all possible festivals, trying to send my film to them would cost me in one year over 15,000 dollars. So your portal is very important for me, I hope more and more festivals will cooperate in the future with you!" Rostisvla A., Finland.

"Thank you for the reelport platform. A very good idea indeed! Best regards." Claire Fouquet, France.

"Your system is the most convenient and simplest method of festival

submission by a mile. It is so much easier than Withoutabox and

ShortFilmDepot." David Procter, UK.

"... I am loving reelport. Congratulations for making such a great system." Ajitpal Sinth, India.

Here, you can download the reelport logo (.zip-file with one .eps- and one .tif-file. Size of the .zip-file: 114KB)

For further information please contact info<at>reelport.com:

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