CINANDO ANNOUNCES 2 DIGITAL ALLIANCES
PARIS, 22 March 2007 - The Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes and Arts Alliance Media are proud to announce a digital B2B services partnership which offers buyers and sellers instant access from anywhere in the world to watch films and projects for sale.
This new B2B Video-on-demand (VoD) tool, named Vizumi Pro, replaces the sending of screeners. “It’s a cost effective way to provide instant delivery, control of viewer permissions, traceability of viewings, and a high level of security as well as eliminating shipment costs” adds Jérôme Paillard, Executive director of the Marché du Film.
The service will be available on Cinando.com, the film market database provided by the Marché du Film to allow year-round access to information on film companies, people and films. Arts Alliance Media will be responsible for digitising, encrypting and securely delivering content (feature films, promos and trailers) to viewers online.
Howard Kiedaisch, CEO of Arts Alliance Media, said “We are delighted to partner with Marché du Film to offer the Vizumi Pro service so that people can benefit from the ease of digital distribution, and make their content available instantly anywhere in the world”
Cinando members will have the films they select available directly at one click.
The Vizumi Pro service is being made available for a platform fee of 550 euros per film title which covers 3 different versions per title (feature, promo/short and trailer). An introductory offer of one free film will be available to the first 200 sales companies to subscribe.
Another partnership has been signed between Cinando and the ISAN International Agency enabling each new project entered in cinando.com to get an ISAN number as an additional complimentary service offered to producers. ISAN (International Standard Audiovisual Number) is to film what ISBN is to books. ISAN, an ISO standard, gives registered film content a unique, permanent, internationally recognized reference number, identifying the work and its related versions at every point of its lifecycle.
“It benefits to producers are several”, said Patrick Attallah, Managing Director of ISAN-IA. “ISAN allows much better identification and therefore tracking of the use that is made of the content, and is always linked to descriptive metadata which in our digital era allows users to better search and find contents. We are very pleased with our partnership with Cinando”.
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About Cinando.com:
Cinando.com, previously known as cannesmarket.com since being launched in 2000 by the Marché du film, has developed into the most important database of the film industry worldwide. Information continually updated is available all year long and notably during and before the most important film markets such as Toronto, the American Film Market, Berlin and the Marché du Film.
Cinando.com online network is exclusively dedicated to the professionals of the film industry worldwide, and is the highlight in the Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes’ strategy to provide essential communication tools to the industry. It is supported by the Media Program.
Cinando.com is available for a yearly fee of 95 euros but its access is included in the Marché du Film registration fee.
About Arts Alliance Media:
Based in London, Arts Alliance Media is Europe’s leading provider of digital film distribution services, dedicated to building a European digital network to deliver film to the cinema, to the home and between industry players.
For Video-on-demand (Download to Rent and Download-to-Own), Arts Alliance Media provides ISP’s, media companies and e-tailers with turn key solutions for acquiring rights and security distributing digital video content over the internet to their audiences. AAMs Vizumi Network currently carries content from major studios and leading independents, and powers download services on partner websites, including LOVEFiLM and selected Emap titles. Full details of content and distribution partners can be seen at www.vizumi.com
Arts Alliance Media owned LOVEFiLM, Europe’s leading online DVD rental company, until the LOVEFiLM/Video Island merger in April 2006. Arts Alliance Media remains the largest single shareholder of LOVEFiLM International, the merged company, and provides the technology and content for digital distribution.
For digital cinema, Arts Alliance Media provides end-to-end digital cinema solutions encompassing equipment selection, financing and integration, operator training, installation and support, and content management and delivery.
For further information, please go to www.artsalliancemedia.com and www.vizumi.com
About ISAN.IA:
The ISAN International Agency (ISAN-IA) a Geneva based non-profit association, co-founded by AGICOA, CISAC and FIAPF, is responsible for promoting ISAN worldwide and for running and managing the ISAN system where ISANs as well as related metadata are stored in a centralized repository.
ISAN-IA collects metadata via a worldwide network of appointed Registration Agencies servicing authorized ISAN users. ISAN-IA has so far delivered more than 420 000 ISANs worldwide. For more information, please visit www.isan.org.
Press Contacts:
Chantal Girondin, Cinando:
cgirondin@festival-cannes / fr - +33 1 53 59 61 30
Kate Pidgeon, Arts Alliance Media:
kate@artsalliancemedia.com / +44 207 751 7512
Valérie Pointet, ISAN.IA:
valerie.pointet@isan.org / + 41 22 545 1010