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About Us
Coffee Shorts is a new short film distributor helping independent filmmakers and musicians take advantage of the explosion in web video.
We've all seen YouTube clips with millions of views featuring talking dogs, dancing girls and established music artists; but finding really well made independent short films can be hard work, which means no solid audiences can really develop and thousands of talented individuals miss out on all the buzz and ad revenue they're helping create.
Our idea is not to start up yet another indie web video site with vast costs, complex scripting and colossal storage needs competing for advertising in a niche area of an overcrowded market; that's just dumb. We're taking advantage of the systems already there, because while one lone talented filmmaker may not get noticed or earn more than pocket change, 100 talented filmmakers grouped together really can, and audiences can instantly find quality short filmmaking without even trying.
Idea in hand we made some calls and hooked up with some companies who showed genuine interest in the idea. We promised them the best short films and interesting traffic, they promised us all the hosting and advertising systems we could ever need and showcasing to their own audiences, which was pretty cool of them, and here we are.
So yes, we are all about the usual "indie community" buzztalk; making a whole stronger than the sum of it's parts, calling ourselves legion, holding hands across America... The difference is that we're using a system which has tens of millions of dollars worth of stability and functionality and filmmakers don't spend every spare second of their life adding friends, sending comments and poking people they've never met.
It's a new approach to an old idea, we won't call it socio-communo-capitalism but it is about accepting that there is a mainstream instead of fighting a losing battle against it; claiming ourselves a corner and hopefully tempting a few people over into a world where the guy doesn't always get the girl, evil sometimes overcomes good and things generally don't follow the same weary scripts.
Coffee Shorts is a place where filmmakers can be as independent as they choose and audiences can find something they never will anywhere else, where wannabe soft porn stars fear to tread and dancing bitch-tits fat kids get all red and blotchy, where unconvincing Scorcese gangster rip offs are spat upon with venom and skateboarding dogs are just plain passe; this is the place that real independent short filmmaking is going to call home one day.
Steve Piper
Head of Film
Coffee Arts and Media
Our Partners
Coffee Films and Crestfallen Productions source all our films.
Coffee Design set up our web channels and take care of online marketing and SEO.
Coffee Artists deal with all our traditional publicity requirements.
Metacafe, the most generous revenue sharing video website around, provide all our video hosting and streaming.
Metrofunk screen our films and promote our filmmakers.
Google Adsense does a great job of providing relevant advertising for this website.
Jacc's Coffee provide our team and many of our events with some of the finest coffee beans in the world; we recommend caramel fudge twist flavour...
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