With more and more of the indie film market relying on DVD rentals, Netflix makes a brilliant move to attend festivals and grab films through its Red Envelope Ent. wing.
Many of us get our indie fix via viral rentals. You may soon have more movies available to your queue with Red Envelope Entertainment casting its acquisition net. This is good news for fans AND filmmakers.
Liesl Copland, formerly of Cinetic Media, will head acqusitions.
Early buys include: Saint of 9/11, Sherrybaby, and This Filthy World.
The Netflix website says about it's distrbution wing: "This original content initiative creates a national distribution channel for films and entertainment programming otherwise not available to broad audiences. For more information, visit www.netflix.com."
Maybe this will do away with that negative label: Direct to DVD. Hey, maybe we can replace that label with: Direct to YouTube. Nice!
