Spout at the Sundance Film Festival

Once again the Spout team is heading to the Sundance Film Festival. Karina Longworth, FilmCouch’s Paul Moore and Kevin Kelly will all be there writing reviews, doing interviews and bringing you all the latest and greatest of the news from the first major film-world event of the year. Spout’s COO Bill Holsinger-Robinson will also be [...]

MeDeploy’s announcement

Just a quick note to point all of you to MeDeploy’s post on their blog announcing the partnership between our two companies. If you want to keep up on everything they’re doing you should make it a point to regularly read or subscribe to that blog as well to see what they’re doing.

Spout and MeDeploy partner to help independent filmmakers

Spout is always looking for two things: 1) Ways to make sure worthwhile films are seen by an audience, regardless of platform and 2) Like-minded partners to be working with.
That’s why today is such an exciting day. We’re thrilled to announce a partnership with online distribution site MeDeploy that gives independent filmmakers the ability to [...]

We’re all here to make the community better

One of the things I dig most about Spout is that there’s a genuine affection within the company for the community that’s taking part in the discussions, making recommendations and doing everything else the site allows them to do. The folks here all genuinely want to hear what people are liking or not liking, what’s [...]

Time’s running out on those 2008 deals

There’s always lots to do at the end of the year. Reflect back on the year that’s past, plan for the year ahead, write “Best of…” lists and think about…actually I think that about covers it.
Karina’s been doing a bit of all of that.
In an interview with Filmmaker Magazine she talks about how she is [...]

What’s Buzzing: The Spout Commmunity 12/26/08

Now that we’re post-Christmas it’s time to highlight once again some of the discussions and lists going on and being created by the members of the Spout community. If you’ve got opinions on some of these discussions you need to get involved. The lists represent not only a chance to connect with people but hopefully [...]

Spout’s Christmas: Yule-A-Go-Go Recipients for 12/19/08

I’ve had a lot of fun highlighting some of these people this week on Inside.Spout. I hope that you, gentle reader, have had a similar experience and found some people to follow on Spout and otherwise connect with through lists, recommendations and more as well as found some of the active discussions in people’s favorite [...]

Spout’s Christmas: Yule-A-Go-Go Recipients for 12/18/08

Time once again to feature some of the Spout community’s core members. Along with that comes the opportunity to send each of these people a copy of Yule-A-Go-Go on DVD for all their “burlesque dancers shaking what was given to them in front of a fireplace” home video needs.
–Chris Thilk, Director of Marketing.
Username: mciocco

Real [...]

Spout’s Christmas: Yule-A-Go-Go Recipients for 12/17/08 (Part 2)

There are still quite a few people in the Spout community we’re looking forward to highlighting, including the two folks below. To reiterate why we’re doing this: Spout is only as powerful as it’s members and these are just a few of those members that are leading and participating in discussion, creating groups and otherwise [...]

What’s Buzzing: The Spout Commmunity 12/17/08

Since I’m all about fostering discussions and highlighting the great content being produced by the Spout community I wanted to try something new here on Inside.Spout.
“What’s Buzzing” is meant to show you what’s happening on Spout each week in terms of interesting discussions going on and lists that are being created. As you can see [...]

Spout’s Christmas: Yule-A-Go-Go Recipients for 12/17/08

Time to feature two more members of the Spout community, each of which will be receiving a copy of the two-disc edition of Yule-A-Go-Go, the perfect thing to give you that warm, fuzzy feeling this Christmas season.
(Note: I’ll be doing this twice today since I spectacularly failed to do it yesterday.)
–Chris Thilk, Director of Marketing
Username: [...]

Are you an Internet sensation?

Scott Kirsner, he of Variety, CinemaTech and Inventing the Movies, is looking for help. He’s writing a new book and is looking for…well…I’ll turn it over to him:
If you are a filmmaker, musician, artist, or writer, how do you attract a big audience online…and ideally build a self-sustaining career with the support of that audience?
So [...]

Yule-A-Go-Go Recipients for 12/15/08

As promised earlier today, here are the first two member profiles as we highlight some of those who have made Spout the great place it is over the course of 2008 (and even before that). As promised, each one of these members will receive a copy of Yule-A-Go-Go on DVD for them to snuggle up [...]

Twitter Contest - Spout’s Favorite Christmas Movies

You ready to play a little game? It’s called the Twitter Holiday Movie List Game… ready?
How to play? It’s easy:

Follow Spout (@spout) on Twitter and send a reply to us with your favorite Christmas movie to us via Twitter.
Include the hash tag #spoutxmas
If your movie appears on Spout’s Christmas list, Spout buys the movie for [...]

Profiling and thanking some of our users

Spout.com is nothing without the members who come to talk about movies day after day. So in this season of giving, this time of reflection, this period of brotherly appreciation (pregnant pause, eyes watering) we wanted to give something back to our most devoted users.
That something? Yule-A-Go-Go.
Finally, the ole Yule Log has something to get [...]