Interest in independent film productions is growing and this is confirmed by the data recorded by the last edition of Sundance Film Festivala film festival dedicated to independent cinema founded by the Utah Film Commission in 1978 and which takes place every year in Park City, which saw a total audience participate 2.7 times larger than to the typical edition with over 251 thousand views of the proposed masterpieces. But what solutions are available today to stream independent productions on demand?
Among the novelties of recent debut we find the one proposed by the creators of the Nòt Film Fest, an independent Italian film festival that takes place annually in Santarcangelo di Romagna. Baptized with the name Nòtstreamthe platform offers a catalog of films, documentaries and short films made by directors and actors from all over the world and offers a selection of about 50 new titles every month: an ideal quantity to avoid the user scrolling through the catalog endlessly in search of their favorite content. At the moment it is possible to try the platform free of charge for 7 days, after which there is a subscription of $ 5.99 – approx. 5 € – monthly.
«Nòtstream was born with the desire to create a new distribution ecosystem capable of give space to unconventional and innovative voices of international independent cinema. The clear differentiation from large platforms such as Netflix or Amazon Prime Video lies in replacing the algorithm for the human person, and the large style catalogs all you can eat to limited and ever-changing selections of films »he comments Giovanni LabadessaCEO of Nòtstream, and continues «Our platform, in fact, offers films carefully selected by festival programmers and special guests thus offering films by young and always fresh authors with the aim of becoming the place to discover the great cinema of tomorrow“.
Among other solutions, however, there is MUBI: a service available in 190 countries – including Italy – and with over 12 million members spread all over the world, which offers the possibility of accessing a catalog of auteur films made by iconic directors and emerging authors directly from smartphones, tablets, smart TVs and Roku devices, Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV: “We are very happy for the passion with which art-house cinema is welcomed in Italy, films such as Shiva Baby by Emma Seligman e First Cow by Kelly Reichardt aroused great enthusiasm in the audience. We are also very happy that experiences like that of Petite Maman, co-distributed in theaters with Teodora from 21 October and on MUBI at the beginning of 2022, confirm how active collaboration between platforms and cinemas is important to support cinema outside the mainstream” explains Irene MusumeciMarketing Director Europe of MUBI.
Available with a dedicated program for Italian users, MUBI has a monthly cost of 9.99 euros however, you can try the service for free for the first week.
All that remains is to take a look at these solutions but with which titles to start? In the gallery you will find a selection of 10 masterpieces of independent cinema to be seen!
Source: Vanity Fair
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