Press
November 1, 2009
New York, NY
From Bites of Life to Bytes of Entertainment
FliggeeBox Network and CINELAN join forces.
FliggeeBox and CINELAN, the 3-minute doc film business co-founded by academy award
nominated director Morgan Spurlock, are excited to announce a new content partnership
where the FliggeeBox Network will showcase CINELAN’s short-form documentaries on
the new FliggeeBox documentary channel. FliggeeBox will also showcase CINELAN on
the FliggeeBox network (www.fliggeebox.com/CINELAN).
“This is a perfect partnership for us since Morgan and his partners formed CINELAN
to support independent documentary filmmakers in developing new audiences and revenues
through the telling of their “Bites of Life” stories, and we founded FliggeeBox
to showcase and support creators of “Byte Sized News & Entertainment” explains Tina
Miletich a FliggeeBox founder. The documentary channel launched in October 2009
features 15 CINELAN short documentaries. Each month CINELAN and FliggeeBox will
add to the library of documentaries by releasing new documentary shorts produced
by CINELAN. David Laks, CEO of CINELAN states: “We’re thrilled with the opportunity
represented by the FliggeeBox-CINELAN partnership as it represents the kind of high
quality distribution we strive to bring to our filmmakers”. Adds’ CINELAN co-founder
Morgan Spurlock, “It’s exciting to see platforms like FliggeeBox emerge that are
truly dedicated to productive partnerships with independent filmmakers. We’re enthusiastic
about what this new relationship can bring to our community of talented content
creators”.
About FliggeeBox: The FliggeeBox network showcases and supports independent short-form
content creators and content providers on www.fliggeebox.com. FliggeeBox strives
to provide independent content creators and content aggregators with valuable tools
which will help projects get funded and creators get recognized.
About CINELAN: CINELAN is a publisher of three-minute non-fiction films, both timely
and timeless, across every imaginable subject, licensed exclusively from filmmakers
for distribution across all media platforms worldwide. Through its efforts, the
company expects to help filmmakers achieve new audiences internationally and ongoing
revenues for their work.