The Wall Street Journal's technology/media site All Things D confirms the pending launch of VEVO, a much rumored Universal Music Group music video site being developed in conjunction with Google's YouTube.
After experimenting with FNMTV over the summer, MTV has decided to go with a new prefix and music programming initiative that starts immediately.
AMTV — emphasis on the AM, as in "ante meridiem" aka the morning — is a six hour block of music video programming that will run Monday through Thursday from 3am to 9am. Perfect for watching as you enjoy your morning coffee, or while shaking off last night's meth binge. Or, better yet: Just set your DVR.
If you are London and of the music video persuasion, this should be your Saturday activity.
The Birds Eye View Film Festival will be hosting a panel discussion on Saturday, March 17 @ The ICA Cinema entitled Music Loves Video. Confirmed panelists include the directors Trudy Bellinger
(Girls Aloud, Sugababes), Kinga Burza (Katy Perry, Kate Nash), Ali Taylor (Shit
Disco) and Shelly Love (The Irrepressibles).
If you're thinking, "Hey, they're all women!" then maybe you've made the connection that by "birds eye" they mean from the viewpoint of British women.
Production company Serial Pictures has announced the signing of music video directors Jonas Akerlund and Johan Renck to its roster. Video credits are below.
Laure Scott will be repping both, along with the rest of the roster, which includes Laurent Briet and Terry Richardson.
Streetgang Films has announced the signing of director Andreas Nilsson for music video production. He will be repped by Tommy Labuda @ Labuda Management in the U.S., and Alexa Haywood @ Free Agent UK in England.
Nilsson's music video credits include the new Peter Bjorn & John "Nothing To Worry About" plus:
Think film festivals are just about traveling to exotic locations (or Utah) and schmoozing with your peers? Not always. The Portable Film Festival dispenses with all that and focuses purely on delivering quality and creative content via the Web...
Amidst all the musical revue that was the 2009 Grammy ceremony, a few awards were doled out — ok, mostly off-camera — including a couple for music video.
Winner, Best Short Form Music Video:
Weezer "Pork And Beans"Mathew Cullen, video director; Bernard Rahill, video producer
RW Media is now representing 21 year-old filmmaker/artist Hayley Morris for music videos.
Morris won the animated short category at the 2009 Slamdance Festival for her film Undone, and is currently working on animation for an upcoming Michel Gondry feature. She is signed with Curious Pictures.
Noted independent film fest Slamdance — aka the other film festival unfurling this week in Park City, UT — reinforces its image as the scrappier antithesis to the more upmarket Sundance Film Festival by launching its first ever music video component. Slamdance
Executive Director / Chair of Music Video Programming Drea Clark — known to many in the video industry from her years working for the MVPA — says about the move, "Besides being biased to the format due to my own history, adding a music video line-up this year seemed like a no-brainer, what with the paradigm shifts in the music industry and the artists’ easy access to talented low-budget filmmakers." Word.
The inaugural line-up of Slamdance Music Videos runs as follows...
