Butterflies Webisode #6



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Butterflies New Cut Version Screens at The Valley Film Festival

Meet six folks in the feature documentary “Butterflies”
who share the common goal of becoming Internet sensations via YouTube.
Each real-life character in the documentary has made a presence online
with thousands of subscribers following their daily lives and video
blogs.
The Valley Film Festival in Los Angeles, California is presenting “Butterflies” this fall on November 13th, 2010 at 7pm in the CAP theater in Sherman Oaks.
“This opportunity to showcase YouTube on a big screen means that the
traditional and new media are slowly merging” Brym said.  “Each
character in the film represents each one of you. The girl next door,
the talented musician, the up and coming actress or the regular guy who
always makes you laugh.”
The film has won the Alan J. Bailey Excellence Award and has been nominated for Best Social Commentary Award 2009 by the AOF International Film Festival. It was also awarded Best Entertainment Doc by the Philadelphia First Glance and received a couple of nominations at Montana Independent Film Festival.
The film premiered in the summer of 2009 on Los Angeles and has since acquired a worldwide distribution by the UK Journeyman Pictures.
Audiences around the world have been following the YouTube story on
their televisions and this screening will for the very first time
present the new broadcast version of the film
.
For more information about Butterflies visit www.butterfliesthemovie.com

Where:
CAP Theatre 
13752 Ventura Blvd. 
Sherman Oaks, CA 91423  

When: Saturday, November 13th, 2010 @ 7PM

Trailer:

Butterflies Webisode 3



Episode 4 coming Wednesday, September 29th, 2010.

Watch previous parts here

Butterflies Webisodes Starting Tomorrow 09/08 on YouTube

Starting tomorrow, every week,, the Award winning documentary Butterflies film profiling the social network YouTube will air in the form of webisodes here

Help Lost Dog

For almost a week now we have been trying to find a good home for the amazing dog I found and so far nobody seems to love her :(
A couple of us decided that her chances might be better if we get her fixed and make sure she has all current shots.
This collection is set up for Ginger, the pup found in North Hollywood (NoHo) in Los Angeles by the metro station. Please donate anything, even if it is just a dollar.
If you really cannont help, repost this and resend this to all your friends so together we can help her find loving home.



More about Ginger can be found here

If you would like to give her new home, please email at: NoHoDog@gmail.com

I set the deadline for this on September 4th, 2010 because it is my birthday that day and I would like nothing more than do something good for this beautiful girl on that day. This gives us 10 days to share the most out of this event. Please do!

Thank you very much for sharing and thank you for all your help <3

Love,
Ester





How much do YouTubers from Butterflies movie really make?

If even after seeing the movie that profiles their crazy lifestyles you still wonder whether the people who post videos on YouTube really make this kind of money, here is the actual break down by Yahoo finance.


The film about YouTubers: Official trailer

Help dog in Los Angeles area please

FOUND DOG

Looking for original owners or new home or just a temporary stay while we find new place for her.

She seems very young and has a red collar on. She is house trained but very scared and extremely cautious.

Please help: Email at: NoHoDog@gmail.com

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La Femme Film Festival Is A Scam

Terrible and expensive place to screen. For the submission fee of $70, you get a room with a couple of chairs and none of your posters nowhere to be seen. We were also “lucky” enough to have our screening scheduled against the opening party of the festival. Needless to say that nobody had any idea we were showing, besides our friends.
Also needless to say, that there was no effort from the festival organizer to put any attention to our film, because our time slot was in competition with the film crew, that paid huge money to the festival publicist.
During the closing ceremony, we struggled to find parking place, because place dedicated to VIP only was not for us. The parking attendant laughed when we asked and said : “Well, are you a celebrity?” Foolish of us to think that since our film was at the festival, we might have been the VIPs. At that point, we were so upset, that we approached the organizer Ms Leslie La Page to find out what exactly happened with our screening, our posters and her festival. She was very busy standing around carrying a baby, I guess her son…
Upon our approach, she started looking very uncomfortable, claiming she is very busy and cannot talk to us. We did mention we emailed her earlier with no feedback. She started getting more upset, looking for any way out. We left. We didn’t bother to attend award ceremony, that was dedicated to people, who paid thousands of dollars to receive her award.
How does this woman sleep at night? Scamming filmmakers of their money, taking their promotional materials and trashing them right away? If this woman is really a mother, I feel very sorry for the children she will raise. Nothing good comes from family of thieves, liars and con artists. Avoid this place if you are a serious filmmaker. If you film is no good, this place might be a great for you, because for few thousand $, you can buy attention, great screening time, publicity and award. No respect though. That you can only buy with good film.

Final evaluation:
Price: expensive
Perks: some if you have extra $ to pay for them
Media: Ms Leslie has some friends that lent their names to the festival, they are as interested in indie film as I am in farming
Professionalism: appears good until personal contact
Interaction with filmmaker: only with the rich ones

Rating on a scale from 1-10: 3 (at least the “festival” takes place)

Website:

http://www.lafemme.org/

Final thought: After receiving emails from other filmmakers that attended La Femme, wanting to stop Ms LaPage from running the festival another year, I realized, that we came out OK. We didn’t pay any additional money besides the submission fee, we didn’t get scammed into her bogus publicist, we didn’t travel across the country to attend this circus. We came out OK, just smarter. Will you?

Butterflies sells to African television

Good-morning Butterflies :)
To take over another continent with our awesome documentary about YouTubers, we have accomplished another sale last week, this time to ZUKU TV in Nairobi, Kenya in Africa.
I am really super excited we are able to show all over the world only one year after our Premiere in Los Angeles. I am also super very excited to see where else we go in the next year coming up.
Eventhough YouTube seems very popular in the USA, Internet video is still in development stages in many parts of the rest of the world and Butterflies is ahead of time in presenting what can be accomplished online.
Thank you for all your support and thank you for sharing this film with your friends.
To find out more or to buy a DVD, you can go here

Pre-order Butterflies DVD Now

It is finally here!!!

The special limited 2 disc edition of Butterflies feature film about YouTubers is coming to DVD this winter.
This 2 disc edition will not last as only limited number is released, so please order yours right away.

...Go here to order and find out what special features will be included.
http://www.butterfliesthemovie.com/dvd.html

******* bonus for the first 20 orders!

*The DVD will ship in the beginning of December.

More about the only Award winning film that documents the journey of internet personalities and their path to fame and fortune can be found here:
http://www.butterfliesthemovie.com/

This DVD is a must see for anyone who is interested in the YouTube sub-culture.

Please, support independent filmmaking and order this special edition before it runs out.

Butterflies Summer 2010 Updates

As we reached the 3220 download of Butterflies on YouTube, we are also quickly approaching the 1 year anniversary since the film officially opened at Action On Film Festival.
It has been a really great ride and so many things happened and changed since.
There are some new updates on our site.
Also, we would like to give you the opportunity to vote for the subject of the next deleted scenes.
Just go on our blog, and vote for your favorite.
If you like to see someone else who is not listed, you can request them by joining our Facebook page and posting a comment on the wall.
Hope everyone is having a great summer.
With love,
Butterflies

Thank You

Thank you so much to everyone for all your support and renting Butterflies.
We are only one click away from 3200 views on YouTube rentals:)
Hope you enjoyed the film and it gave you some ideas on how to make more money on YouTube.
The YouTube community has changed so much since the premiere of the film. We are really
happy that we were able to capture its beginnings and talk to some of the YouTubers, who started it all.
Best of luck with your YouTube channel.
Love,
http://www.ButterfliesTheMovie.com

If you have supported the film your credit should now be up on IMDb. Check it out and click like, if you like :)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1381735/

Article on Butterflies YouTube Launch

Hello Butterflies:

I hope all of you are having a great weekend and working on some great YouTube videos :)

We have three announcements for this week:

1) An article on Documentary Tech website profiles Butterflies and the film's journey all the way to distribution and launch on YouTube


2) New Butterflies network has been established where you can join for free, interact and post your videos. Member's work gets featured each week
and we have forum's discussing your YouTube progress and other events.


3) The band that composed the theme song for Butterflies "I Saw Your Face" by Chinaski will be performing live in Los Angeles this month.

You can RSVP and join us here:


Or see them spotlighted in this video

I always enjoy your feedback and questions, so please feel free to respond to this should you have any suggestions or you can do so anonymously at:
http://www.formspring.me/Filmester

Butterflies Behind the Scenes

After crazy weekend on YouTube where most of you noticed Butterflies on the front page,
here are some new clips and interesting info from behind the scenes.

First, if you still didn't see the film, it is available for rent here.

If you are interested in making of the film, you can read an article published by YouTube or see the filmed interviews here.
You will find out why the characters featured in the film were picked and if Butterflies 2 is in the works :) Who should star in the next one?

Also, we started uploading the deleted scenes from the film to our Butterflies YouTube channel .
If you are looking for a YouTuber that didn't make it into the final cut, you will be able to find the interviews with them here.
Here is the first 3:
Nigahiga
Kicesie
Dudeneedaeaseonup


Finally, remember to check out our website, as T-Shirts and posters are now available for sale.

If you read this far, I thank you very much for your time.
If you have any questions, suggestions or feedback, feel free to make a video response to the film or
ask your question here:

Hope you all having a nice day and remember, if you are out outside of USA, the film is not available on YouTube, but you can rent it here.

After 4 Sundance films, Butterflies is the next film selected for rent on YouTube.


One of the first feature films distributed on YouTube is the Youtube documentary film Butterflies.

The independent film from European filmmaker Ester Brym has finished its festival run last year graduating with a couple of awards and going on to make history as one of the first films being available for rent on YouTube.

Butterflies is feature film following the
lives of six young people that are prominent 'weblebrities' on a video
site YouTube. The film explores the new media, its power and its
future. Will the Internet overcome traditional media? Will new media
and traditional media merge? The film documents the struggles and
successes of characters Lisanova, Mr. Safety, Davedays, Boheme, Olgakay
and Xgobobeanx and others and their hopes to become the new 'virtual' celebrities.
The film exposes the viral video star stardom and road to fortune.

Watch the film now and see how filmmakers will distribute their works in the future.

Director's film debut reaches 10,000 downloads online

Ester Brym's feature documentary Butterflies focusing on the celebrity life of YouTube personalities have been downloaded over 10,000 times since its release online 6 weeks ago.
The film premiered in July 2009 at AOF film festival in LA and signed with UK distributor Journeyman Pictures in October.
The director shot this as her directing debut on a budget put together from her savings and credit cards.
See what people say about the movie:

Watch the trailer:

Watch the film now.

Any questions for the filmmakers can be send at:
filmester@brymproductions.com