http://openindie.com/ http://weliveinpublicthemovie.com http://openindie.com/films/we-live-in-public Today, March 1st 2010 OpenIndie launched in beta to the 100 filmmakers who provided over 12,000 dollars to have the site built by myself (Arin Crumley) and my co-founder Kieran Masterton. I was blown away by Kieran's quality of programming and design at launch. The site is truly inspiring to me and I'm glad to have co-designed it and to be bringing it to the public. The first 18 films were added and 7 screenings were entered into the site of tonight's We Live in Public multi-city and multi-format release. The screenings were in celebration of the films VOD & DVD release nationwide. The live Q&A was streamed online from Chicago with the filmmaker Ondi Timoner and main character of the film Josh Harris. They bantered over questions from audiences chimed in through audience members in the 5 other cities asking about the authentic of love that takes place in-front of cameras, the goal we all have with our online identities and the likeliness of Andy Warhol's promise of 15 minutes of fame to everyone alive. Josh Harris explained he's working on a wired city project of living spaces that are streamed online to interacting participants and mentioned having hollywood support for the project. Ondi Timoner mentioned she's working on a film that explores the under exposed solutions to help climate change as well as her first scripted narrative which will be about the life story of Robert Mapplethorpe. Ondi is a freaking radical. I love her. This up coming week for me will be all about further editing the copy on OpenIndie.com, the homepage design, the uploading of films feature and fixing any bugs that arise. Also of course I'm deep into editing here with Christie Strong and have the support of Niklas Schrimpf who is the causual kinesiologist on the film we are making. More info soon on how I hope to bring that film to an OpenIndie release learning from Ondi's amazing release tonight. Provided we can get all the powers that be on board. Distributed by Tubemogul. Less