FilmFestivals.com Mission Statement

This is our vision

Today, thanks to the Internet, the international world of festivals and films - until recently reserved to a public composed primarily of film connoisseurs and industry professionals- can expand to a larger audience, freed from geographical constraints. Online broadcasting provides a film and filmmaker a new opportunity to seek and find its public.
The time - place constraints, and the costs of promotion are considerably reduced by digital showcasing.
The logic of film broadcasting then becomes freer, more flexible, lighter, and closer to the concept of reading a book today, for example.
The choice then becomes more individual, the relationship more intimate, more risky, more passionate... For each individual to discover, to program, to react, criticize and to share... Based on the obvious condition of fully protecting intellectual property and broadcasting rights, a new economy of the cinema can be born from the Internet.

Digital Utopia ?
We certainly do not think so. We are convinced that it is necessary to seize this opportunity to free the cinematographic creation that has so long been constrained by mass media dictates, and the current distribution systems.

The independent film industry should not be mistaken: the "majors" already control the main channels of distribution, and now have begun to converge with the largest Internet players to create broad portals that are dedicated to online film broadcasting (AOL / Time Warner, Vivendi/Universal...). This is why it is vital to create alternative platforms, of international scale, that devote a place to the discovery, to the creative audacity, and the new talents of independent cinema.

These platforms must offer new means of promotion and broadcasting at lower cost in order to support and enlarge the economy of the independent cinema, while allowing each film to quickly find its public.

We believe that the world's window on festivals and the access to online broadcasting constitute an outstanding opportunity that remains to be fully exploited.
The goal of Filmfestivals.com is to be one of the key players in this new cinema revolution and to explore with pioneering filmmakers the new grammar of interactive film online viewing.
Therefore, we invite filmmakers respected leaders of the global film industry to support and participate in our effort to fundamentally transform the independent film industry.