FilmTiki’s online week in review (week 19)

The Auteurs is now called MUBI VoD-platform The Auteurs changed its name into Mubi a few days ago, and here's why:

People had no idea what the word “auteur”—a French word for author that has come to mean a film director with a signature style—actually means. It was not accessible. (...) So he went on a quest for a new name. (...) “Find me my global brand, my Sony,” he told them. It took nine months, but finally an agency in Tokyo knew they had found the name. Mubi.

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37 Ways Independent Film is SUCCEEDING today! FilmSnobbery posted a direct response to an article by Ted Hope. Read it, it's worth it! Indie Films' iTunes End-Around: Sell Them as Apps We already wrote about turning your film into an iPhone app, here's some more info about it. NYU Students Raise More than $100,000 to Build Facebook Alternative According to Mashable, Diaspora, an open source personal web service that will put individuals in control of their data, is raising funds via Kickstarter. Zeppelin Orchestra - we need your support! As you might already know, our friends from Germany are raising money for their musical tour through Eastern Europe. They published a nice video on their IndieGoGo-page you should watch. The Men Who Made ABC’s ‘Lost’ Last For all our fellow LOST fans out there, some really important things you should know before the end comes :-) Get ready to kick some Nazi arse! We received the following message a few days ago from the guys over at Iron Sky

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On Monday we will release the first actual footage of Iron Sky! (...) If you follow our blog, you might remember that in the beginning of March we had one day of shootings in the city of Tampere in Finland. We did this single day of filming to test our production work flow, and we actually shot some scenes that will be used in the final movie. We took those scenes, edited them into a teaser format and voila - that is what we will publish on Monday: the second teaser of Iron Sky! We are of course biased, but DAMN it looks good, even though it's a couple of days from being finished at the time we write this! And here we need your help. See, our CGI Wizard Samuli Torssonen, the guy mainly responsible of the CGI of Iron Sky, is working without sleep through the weekend to get things done by Monday, and it's not like he's had that much sleep earlier in the week either. Working on CGI can be pretty dull when you sit alone in the office, so here's a little task for you guys and girls out there: come up with a cool way to push and pull Samuli through the last two days of pixel-crunching. You come up with the way - all kinds of cheering, motivating and pushing is highly appreciated, be it just a few words, a funny pic or a song and dance :) The best way for it to find it's target it to Twit it to us - our Twitter name is @Energia.

A brilliant idea - keeping all your fans up-to-date on and involved in your project. And it definitly payed off:

And of course... ... don't forget to visit FilmTiki on IndieGoGo and spread the word about it! At the moment we're crowdfunding for further FilmTiki development, to make it bigger, better and even more awesome - for you! More details coming soon.