Amazon Video Direct is expanding its Film Festival Stars program beyond North America, bringing the offering to the Berlin Film Festival for the first time.The program offers independent filmmakers with titles in official selection at the festival the opportunity to essentially self-distribute globally via Amazon’s Prime Video Svod platform.
Films must have English, French, German, Italian or Spanish as their original language to qualify.Film Festival Stars launched at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
It uses self-service program Amazon Video Direct, which launched in May 2016, allowing content owners to make their films available in Prime Video.
Those taking up the offer earn royalties on a per-stream basis and receive a non-recoverable upfront cash bonus of $50,000, plus eligible localization bonuses.The program allows films to pursue theatrical opportunities ahead of their streaming release on Prime Video on March 1, 2019.
Filmmakers looking to take up the Film Festival Stars offer have to do so by the close of March
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