Contact Information: Brett Gaylor Open Source Cinema (514) 937-4893 brett@opensourcecinema.org Lisa Bennett Kaltura (212) 981-3965 lisa.bennett@kaltura.com Kris Krug Raincity Studios (778) 898-3076 kris@raincitystudios.com
OpenSourceCinema.org Chooses Kaltura's Video Platform to Power Interactive Video Functionality on Its New Online Community Developed by Raincity Studios
OpenSourceCinema.org Selects Kaltura in Order to Allow Users to View, Upload, and Remix RiP Manifesto -- the First Legally Remixable Documentary About Copyright and Remix Culture
| Source: Kaltura
AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwire - March 16, 2009) - SXSW Conference -- EyeSteelFilm, the creators of
"RiP, a Remix Manifesto," a documentary about copyright and remix culture,
announced today that it has partnered with Kaltura, Inc.
(http://www.kaltura.com), developer of the first open source video platform
and Raincity Studios, a web 2.0 community developer and web design company,
to power full video capabilities on its new online community site
www.OpenSourceCinema.org.
"When we launched OpenSourceCinema.org, the idea was to promote a fair-use
remix culture. With Kaltura's unique open source tools, the collaborative
concept becomes easy to implement," said Brett Gaylor, Founder of Open
Source Cinema. "Now, with the online community that we've created in
collaboration with Raincity Studios, Kaltura's technology enables our
members to easily collaborate online in the joint creation of rich-media."
OpenSourceCinema was created to connect documentary filmmakers and
audiences to collaboratively create and distribute films. OpenSourceCinema
provides a full spectrum of tools to enable collaboration: a pool of
footage licensed under Creative Commons licenses, Kaltura's web based
advanced online editor, social networking features that foster content
distribution, and easy ways for filmmakers to find crews, audiences and
collaborators. The first documentary to employ the OpenSourceCinema model
is "RiP, a Remix Manifesto," which is now available on the site for
registered users to view, upload their own media, and remix reels and
scenes from the film using Kaltura's video platform.
"There is no doubt that the open source and free culture approach has
proven itself in a wide range of business, technology, and content fields.
We are now seeing this approach taking off in the world of rich-media
creation and consumption. Our partnership with OpenSourceCinema and
Raincity Studios exemplifies the great synergies to be exploited between an
open source platform and free-culture movements. We are honored to be a
part of this project," said Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura Chairman and CEO. "At
Kaltura we believe that advanced video functionalities should be available
for any publisher for free, and that is exactly what we disruptively offer.
Coupled with our video-related value added services, Kaltura offers the
most robust, flexible, and affordable video solution in the marketplace
today."
About OpenSourceCinema
Open Source Cinema is a social network website to connect audiences,
filmmakers and subjects in the creation of documentary films. Through a
suite of modules, it will facilitate collaborative editing, submission of
user-generated content, viral marketing of documentary films, and the power
to act and change the issues that documentaries explore. It has been
created to produce the first open source documentary, "RiP: A Remix
Manifesto," and the site is being developed for broadcasters, filmmakers
and audiences to connect, create and transform media.
About Kaltura
Kaltura provides the world's first Open Source Online Video Platform. With
more than 20,000 active publishers, Kaltura's flexible framework empowers
any site with advanced video functionality. Founded in 2006, Kaltura's open
source code is available as a free Software Development Kit and as
downloadable packages for leading platforms -- such as Drupal, WordPress
and MediaWiki. Kaltura also provides supplementary paid services including
maintenance, support, integration, professional development, streaming and
hosting, ad serving, content syndication, and aggregation of related third
party services. Since its public launch, New York-based Kaltura has won
numerous awards, such as the TechCrunch40 People's Choice award, Mashable's
'Open Web' award, AlwaysOn's top 250 global company and top 100 media
company awards, and TV Week's 5 Video Startups to Watch in 2009. For more
information, visit www.kaltura.com.
About Raincity Studios
Raincity Studios is a full service innovation agency, strategically
creating and hosting online communities for businesses, organizations and
publishers. With a full crew of specialists, Raincity's extensive list of
competencies includes: Drupal content management system deployments,
graphic design for on and off-line applications, strategic consultation
about concept, traffic-building and monetization, information architecture
design, custom code development, ecommerce implementations, plus a retinue
of new and traditional marketing tactics to encourage participation in your
community including SEO, blogging and podcasting. Beyond site development,
Raincity Studios offers turn-key shared or enterprise-ready dedicated
hosting solutions with redundant server farms to maximize uptime and
performance. Additionally, Raincity offers comprehensive website support
and maintenance agreements, custom training and documentation creation.
For more information, visit www.raincitystudios.com