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Neil LaBute’s ‘Some Girl(s)’ First To Self-Release Via Vimeo On Demand

By JEN YAMATO | Thursday May 2, 2013 @ 11:07am PDTTags: Leeden Media, Neil LaBute, Some Girl(s), Vimeo

Some Girl(s) VimeoEXCLUSIVE: Will direct-to-consumer distribution make indie filmmaking more sustainable? Leeden Media will be the first lab rats in Vimeo‘s new On Demand program when it self-releases Neil LaBute‘s Some Girl(s) day and date in NY/LA and digitally June 28. The low-budget comedy-drama directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer (Party Girl) stars Adam Brody, Kristen Bell, Jennifer Morrison, Mia Maestro, Zoe Kazan, and Emily Watson and premiered in March at SXSW, where Vimeo announced its bold new distribution venture. The program, offering creators marketing control and the ability to set their own prices, streaming periods, region parameters, and an enticing 90/10 profit split, had filmmakers salivating. Leeden Media partners and producers Patty West and Chris Schwartz even turned down traditional distribution offers to try their luck going DIY. “Foreign sales agents said the film might make it out in a year or two”, West told Deadline. “Domestic reps said maybe 2014. The timeline usually takes so long to get to the audience”, but through Vimeo the pic will make it to viewers just about four months after its SXSW world premiere. READ MORE »

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Vimeo Launches On Demand Distribution Offering Creators 90/10 Revenue Split: SXSW

By JEN YAMATO | Tuesday March 12, 2013 @ 1:50pm PDTTags: SXSW, Vimeo, Vimeo On Demand

Today at the SXSW Film + Interactive Conference, online video platform Vimeo launched its Vimeo On Demand program, a new distribution feature that will allow content creators to sell films and webisodes directly … Read More »

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