Sell your Movies OnlineThrough CustomFlix

Posted by Richard Baguley

Published on April 26, 2006

Amazon has just announced an interesting new service for filmmakers: their subsidiary company CustomFlix
will take a video that a filmmaker uploads to them, and sell it on
blu-Ray, HD-DVD and other physical format. This sounds like an
interesting idea for the aspiring filmmaker: it overcomes the whole
problem of duplication, distribution and retail: they do it all for you
and sell it either through Amazon.com or a custom store on your own
site. It sounds like a great way to sell your movies without the
hassle, and it doesn’t seem too expensive: their service for independent filmmakers costs $19.95 a year per title, plus a setup fee of $49.95 per movie and a chunk of the revenue when you sell them.

 

 

[Via CinemaTech]

I like it!  THERE's a good use for the Internet!  Not that I've got a pile of films sitting around waiting for a distributor, but this really could make film more accessible to movie makers.  Now, we just have to hold our breath for the audience to catch up, and everything will be right as rain!