CBS shows on youtube: a road toward universalization of content?

via YouTube Begins Streaming Full-Length Shows from CBS – Mashable
It’s this the 1st step towards allowing people from all over the world to access almost simultaneous new content legally?
Doubt that, with the big hammer from authorship laws lingering everywhere, in which local needs to be local, while the internet is not local at all.
The problem [...]

67 Countries Vying for 2008 Foreign Language Oscar.

via 67 Countries Vying for 2008 Foreign Language Oscar – ComingSoon.net
It depresses me that we’re getting another gritty reality type of movie as the Brazil nominee.
For every more hopeful movie like we had with “O Ano em que meus pais saíram de Férias” (the almost auto-biographycal movie from Cao Haburger), we get a dozen of [...]

Google’s 10th Birthday Present: Awarding World-Changing Ideas.

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Google’s 10th Birthday Present: World-Changing Ideas.
Back in September 24th, Google announced its 10th birthday celebration endeavor, called Project 10^100 (as in “Project 10 to the 100th”).
The project works as follows: you send Google your idea by October 20th; it’s done by simply filling out a submission form, add a 30-second video if you like. [...]

32ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA EM SÃO PAULO

32ª Mostra Internacional de Cinema em São Paulo.
It’s that time of the year again, two weeks of pure movie bliss, as another edition of the Mostra Internacional de Cinema em São Paulo (Sao Paulo International Film Festival).
I’ve been attending the event since 2001, initially only picking a couple of movies to watch, then more recently [...]

James Gunn’s PG Porn debuts.

Spike.com is bringing us this fall a new fun short funny series.
As the tagline mentions’ it’s for people who love everything about Porn, except the sex.

From James Gunn’s Myspace Blog:
JAMES GUNN’S PG-PORN. It’s pornography everyone can enjoy, not just perverts.  You and your grandmother, for instance, could sit down together and enjoy some nice clean [...]

BBC’s Digital Planet Radio Programme in Brazil.

A couple weeks ago BBC’s Gareth Mitchell and Michelle Martin were in Brazil where they produced content for their Radio programme “Digital Planet”, the first show of the series was already on the air / on the web, when they were still here.
You can check out this week’s show, which it’s the second part of [...]

CINECIEN 08.

A great opportunity for scientists who just also happen to be filmakers, or the other way around.

The CINECIEN 08, is the third edition of festival for video produced towards science & Technology, mostly from researchers from the Mercosul country members. The submissions for this year are open till November 14th.