Reframe.

"The nonprofit Tribeca Film Institute in New York is joining Amazon.com to create a digital marketplace for films and videos that have been stuck in archives with limited circulation or have been otherwise unavailable through conventional retail and Web outlets," reports Michael Cieply in the New York Times.

"Opening its digital doors today," reports indieWIRE's Eugene Hernandez, Reframe is backed by a million dollars in grants from the MacArthur Foundation, and includes a partnership with CreateSpace and Amazon aimed at digitizing and delivering - on DVD or via Amazon's Unbox service - films from leading indie, documentary, foreign and experimental filmmakers."

And, via Scott Kirsner, the Hollywood Reporter's Gregg Goldstein explains how the filmmakers and/or rights-holders get paid.

Posted by dwhudson at June 9, 2008 7:47 AM