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Fundit.ie

iwirefilms — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:12:26 +0000

We’ve also been experimenting with crowd funding on fundit.ie to raise the funding for post-production finance by selling limited edition merch.

Its gone okay, though it looks like we won’t now make the target €10,600 in time unless there is a late surge. We did however manage to get pledges for 50% of the budget which is great, except that if we don’t raise it all, we don’t get any of it and the pledgers get refunded.

Overall, a good system, though not a very well designed website, no social media integration etc.

Trailer for Dublin In Pieces

iwirefilms — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:08:28 +0000

This is the first ‘theatrical’ style trailer for the film, its nearly done now honest!

new trailer for Dublin In Pieces

iwirefilms — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:57:42 +0000

Its on vimeo check it out

For this version we’ve added stills and images under the title to really give a sense of the fast pace of the film, though the stories are sedentary, they’ve been cut together in a way that captures the speed and pace of a city like Dublin, which can be slow and rapid at the same time.

There’s also a new poster for the film:

updated website

iwirefilms — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:52:21 +0000

our new website has lots of neat stuff, like 2 of our short films in glorious high definition and trailers to our two features

check it out: i-Wire Films

Satellites & Meteorites live on iTunes across the world

iwirefilms — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:44:10 +0000

This is good news for us! The film is now available on iTunes across the planet (except in Ireland! will anyone in our home country ever see our film?).

For those following our efforts of self distribution, the film is now available via the following means:

iTunes
Amazon On Demand
DVD (via CreateSpace)
IndieFlix (stream or download)
NewFilmakers (stream or download)
Multiple illegal file sharing sites which offer a copied version of the film in Polish (that’s not a joke)

From all of these sources, plus the TV sales, we’re going to return a good chunk of money. It hasn’t been easy. No above the line people were paid (apart from the actors) but that is how it is for independent film today. Its ALL ABOUT self distribution. You can’t afford sales agents or theatrical release or even DVD. For our future projects we’re not going to try and find a sales agent, its going straight to VOD. It’s the future – plain and simple.

iTunes & Indieflix

iwirefilms — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:59:58 +0000

Well it finally happened, after a long wait iTunes finally pushed the big red button and put Satellites & Meteorites live on their US, Canadian and New Zealand stores. Why these 3? Who knows. Their logic is sometimes an enigma. Have we got any sales yet? Yes, actually. The first sale was made very shortly after the film went live, which is great, and no, we don’t have access to the film yet in Ireland so it wasn’t any of us who bought it (we most certainly would have).

US link here and Canadian link here.

Screenshot below, thanks to everyone at Indieflix (especially Afi):

Facebook page

iwirefilms — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:06:22 +0000

Its in full swing over at www.facebook.com/dublininpieces

You can see photos like the one below and other info. Check it out!

Dublin In Pieces

iwirefilms — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:51:26 +0000

So we finally finished filming last Friday. Yipee. Now the edit starts, slowly but surely. Aiming for festivals in the fall. Race is on.

Trailer here:

Dublin In Pieces

iwirefilms — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:19:44 +0000

once more into the abyss

iwirefilms — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:14:41 +0000

so off we go again, spending more time and money making a film that very few people will see, right? WRONG. we’ll make virtually no money out of this latest venture (the title of which we be shortly revealed) but it will find a huge audience through film festivals, online and self distribution channels. it will likely not end up in the cinema or on tv. it will likely never be front and centre at hmv. but it will make people smile, lurch, cry and vomit (well, hopefully not vomit) all across the world, in many different languages. it has been great fun making it and it will be great fun finishing it. everybody wins.

on this the day that Hulu told our US distributor that they do not want Satellites and Meteorites on their service and were hence passing on it. This irks us quite a bit, not because of the lost revenue (virtually zero) but because there is a tremendous amount of crap on Hulu, and our film is much better than a lot of it, its done better both critically and commercially, but it seems that Hulu still only add a very small amount of real indie content (i.e. content that is not marketed as indie film by huge distribution companies). down with hulu for this kind of thing, really. we’re glad that over 15 million people disagree with their decision (that’s the cumulative audience figure for the film from 10 territories).