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SnagFilms Launches SnagFAST

By IDA Editorial Staff


Made a film festival favorite that never reached its full audience...or never got distributed at all? Want to put the power of the web behind a premiere? For documentarians in any of those categories, SnagFAST now offers the fastest way to get from a festival to a global audience.

SnagFAST is the new, expedited, online submissions process from SnagFilms, a digital distribution company nearing its first anniversary--and an ally of the IDA. SnagFilms has put its library of more than 700 award-winning titles--from some of the greatest names in documentary films--in front of a huge audience: 800 million pageviews since launch, on nearly 23,000 web pages, including those of The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, nearly all of the AOL channels, and Politico, hundreds of blogs, and thousands of social network pages like Facebook. SnagFilms splits half of the in-video advertising it receives with the respective filmmakers.

SnagFAST is the new "Festival-Approved Submissions Tool" that lets you to submit films for expedited review and distribution by SnagFilms. If your film has been selected by one of over 100 top film festivals from around the globe, SnagFilms will fast-track its distribution on its web platform. Since SnagFilms supports and respects the curatorial experience of leading film festivals, your festival acceptance qualifies you for digital distribution. SnagFast is a simple online tool, and in 3 easy steps your film can join SnagFilms' top caliber library which includes SuperSize Me, Hoop Dreams, Nanking, to name a few. We invite you to take advantage of this opportunity and go straight from festival to the web with SnagFast. Click here to get started: http://www.snagfilms.com/films/submissions

Traditional distribution can be glacially paced, if you can secure it at all. SnagFAST makes the move from festival to the global audience fast and easy.

This news item is brought to you by a special partnership between the IDA and indieWIRE and SnagFilms.