IndieGoGo, a fundraising platform, announced at SXSW its acquisition of Distribber, a digital distribution service. This acquisition enables IndieGoGo to offer clients a full range of tools for project execution, from funding to distribution.

IndieGoGo, co-founded in 2008 by Danae Ringelmann, Slava Rubin and Eric Schell, and operating out of Berkeley, Calif. and New York City, was the larg...

Attention animal lovers: National Geographic Ventures and Fox Cable Networks are launching the new US channel Nat Geo Wild on March 29th. The channel will replace Fox Reality Channel on some cable lineups, and is the first to move from overseas into the US market. John Fahey, president and CEO of the National Geographic Society, said in a statement, "Wildlife programming is core to our brand and with the urgent conservation challenges facing wildlife, this is the right time for us to focus ...

The Tribeca Film Festival, which takes place April 21 to May 2, has announced both the competition and non-competition films for its ninth edition. Among the 85 feature-length and 47 short films on the schedule, the fest has programmed 12 documentaries in the World Documentary Competition, two works-in-progress, six docs in the Encounters section, seven in the Discovery section and one in the Spotlight section. 

In addition, the recently announced Tribeca Film

Documentary filmmakers considering a theatrical release now have a new resource to add to the list of marketing and distribution gurus. Jeff Lipsky (co-founder, October Films) recently announced that he's getting back into the distribution business.

Theatrical business is flourishing – it wasn’t just Tim Burton’s film that broke global records this past weekend, the IFC Center in New York City also made history, and that’s generally the way things have been going fo...

So sooner had the last Oscars been given out when a plethora of announcements from all over the distro globe came out about new theatrical acquisitions and releases.  So, here's a recap:

Lorber Films has acquired the US rights to the all-time cinema classic David Holzman's Diary by Jim McBride. This landmark work from 1967 blends fiction and reality, and made a deep impression on an entire generation of filmmakers in the 1970s.  This staged documentary chronicle...

While attending the first evening of DocuDays LA 2010, The Cove director Louis Psihoyos more than hinted that while he and his Oceanic Preservation Society team were in town for Oscar-related events, they were also working on some covert operations with law officials to bust up an illegal ring of some s...

While appearing on Larry King Live, the now famously "Kanye'd" Academy Award-winner for Best Documentary Short Subject, Roger Ross Williams got another shot at delivering his acceptance speech. See it