Today we’re really pleased to announce that any filmmaker who would like to add their film to OpenIndie to collect demand and enable worldwide user-generated screenings can do so by paying $100 per film per year. The facility is available to any user of OpenIndie and during March there will be approximately a 24 hour turn around from payment to account activation. However, after the beginning of April activation will occur immediately after purchase.

By choosing to add your film to OpenIndie, like the 100 founding filmmakers before you, you’ll get access to the following:

• A film profile page where anyone can request a screening of your film.
• A map of worldwide demand for your film.
• Upload a high quality digital copy of your film for screenings. * Optional
• OpenIndie community can set up revenue share screenings of your film.
• Facility for a screening host to directly pay you your share.
• A one-to-one consultation over skype or the telephone with a social media expert to advise on utilizing the internet to find your films full potential.

We’re also extraordinarily excited to announce that cross-media specialist Christy Dena is coming on board with us to offer our first 200 filmmakers an hours one-to-one consultation. The consultations will take place chiefly via Skype and will allow filmmakers the opportunity to discuss their audience building plans.

Christy has keynoted Power to the Pixel in London and recently spoke at the Filmmaker Summit. She also mentors film, television, literature and new media professionals, and judges cross-media and new media art projects worldwide. As a result she has an amazing grasp of the issues facing indie filmmakers right now and is extremely knowledgeable about OpenIndie.

Consultations will take place over the coming months so please bear with us as I’m sure you can imagine arranging each consultation with busy filmmaker schedules can be a challenge.

Find out more about adding your film to OpenIndie or sign up an account by browsing the films and requesting one you’re interested in seeing. Finally, if you have any questions about how the site works or suggestions please feel free to post them on our help site.