Happy birthday, Brave New Films! Five years of activism hasn't aged you at all. To celebrate the activists' big day, the group is offering nearly everything they've produced in a massive, 10-disc box set that is bound to get you angry at something or someone. It's a must-have tool kit for any documentary filmmaker or passionate activist who wants to use video to achieve political and social change. See a pitch for it below or check it out and buy it here.
IFC Entertainment and Netflix have partnered up in order to offer 53 unique IFC titles for instant streaming to televisions and computers via Netflix's download service. Some of the prominent titles include Errol Morris' The Thin Blue Line and Jim Stern and Adam Del Deo's political documentary So Goes the Nation. Read more about it at The Wrap.
If you still like holding the actual DVD in you hands, Oscilloscope may have the program for you. The indie label was founded by Adam Yauch and David Fenkel is starting a direct-mail DVD club. For a subscription fee of $150 you will get the company's next 10 DVD releases (one per month, and a week before general release) and Oscilloscope catalog DVDs at half price. (via the Hollywood Reporter)
TV Guide Network has acquired the U.S. rights to the one-hour documentary film I Dreamed a Dream: The Susan Boyle Story. The cable channel will televise the film at 8 p.m. Dec. 13, same day it premieres on Britain's ITV1. (via Broadcasting & Cable)