AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

Blowtorch: Offers group-created movies - Venture Beat
These days, it’s easy to shout “bubble” in the crowded theater of online video startups. Only YouTube has been a runaway success — but even YouTube hasn’t proven it can make money. Yet online video sites continue to raise millions of dollars in funding.
Blowtorch, a California company that has [...]

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DI makes quicker work of timing and finishing — Hollywood Reporter
By Carolyn Giardina
Five-time Oscar nominee Roger Deakins is grabbing a lot of attention these days, having served as director of photography on three recent high-profile features: Joel and Ethan Coen’s “No Country for Old Men,” Paul Haggis’ “In the Valley of Elah” and Andrew Dominik’s [...]

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