SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 1, 2005–GreenCine (www.greencine.com), the preeminent Video-on-Demand and DVD Rent-by-Mail company with an unsurpassed collection of independent, international and classic films, and DivX, Inc. (www.divx.com), the company that created the revolutionary, patent-pending DivX® video compression technology, today announced the finalists of the GreenCine Online Film Festival, presented by DivX, Inc.
The finalists in the narrative feature category are: “White Knuckles” (2004), directed by Leo Scherman; “IPO” (2004), directed by Daniel Gamburg; “Red Cockroaches” (2004), directed by Miguel Coyula; “Peep Show” (2004), directed by J.X. Williams; and “Security” (2005), directed by Rob Nilsson (“Heat and Sunlight,” “Signal 7”). The judges for the narrative competition are Holly Willis, Lawrence Inglee and Jerome “Gej” Rota.
The finalists in the documentary feature category are: “Piece by Piece” (2004), directed by Nic Hill; “Empire of Juramidam” (2004), directed by Colum Stapleton; “Visiting Shane” (2005), directed by Varda Hardy; “About Baghdad” (2004), directed by Sinan Antoon, Bassam Haddad, Maya Mikdashi, Suzy Salamy and Adam Shapiro; and “The End of Suburbia” (2004), directed by Gregory Greene. The judges for the documentary category are Mark Kitchell, Hollis Gillespie and David Kopple.
Both Rob Nilsson’s “Security” and Varda Hardy’s “Visiting Shane” enjoy their world premieres at the Online Film Festival.
Each finalist will be up on www.greencine.com from June 1 through June 26, and will be available for download in the secure DivX format. Customers who download a contending film will be able to rank it, with all online audience votes counting towards an Audience Award. Each Grand Prize winner as selected by the panel of judges will receive $2,500 and a theatrical screening in San Francisco.
For details and updates for the GreenCine Online Film Festival, please see our festival web page at https://filmfestival.greencine.com.
About GreenCine
GREENCINE LLC is at the forefront of online DVD rental, with a diverse selection of over 27,000 titles specializing in independent, international, documentary and classic films — without forsaking mainstream releases. In September 2003, the company introduced its revolutionary Video-on-Demand service, offering filmmakers a lucrative and piracy-free avenue for online feature film distribution. Over 2,700 films are now available in this form. For details on GreenCine’s latest VOD and DVD offerings, as well as an incredible array of film-related interviews and articles, please visit our award-winning site — https://www.greencine.com.
About DivX, Inc. DivX, Inc. is a consumer-focused video technology company positioned at the center of multimedia convergence. The company’s core offering is the DivX® video codec, among the world’s most popular video compression technologies with over 250 million DivX software downloads. The patent-pending DivX video can acheive DVD-quality at a fraction of the size of MPEG-2/DVD files, enabling full-length films to easily fit on a CD or be delivered over broadband connections. DivX video technology powers a range of applications that span the convergence value chain, from a secure IP-based video-on-demand solution to next-generation consumer electronics products and video software applications. DivX, Inc. is headquartered in San Diego, California with satellite offices in Los Angeles and San Jose, Calif., Taipei, Taiwan, Tokyo, Japan, Guildford, England and Düsseldorf, Germany.