As a new service on its website, the German Short Film Association offers interested industry professionals the possibility to view short films from the annual "German Short Films" catalogues online (if the copyright holder has given his or her permission for an online preview).
The streaming technology allows a real-time access on audio, video and multimedia contents via internet. As opposed to usual downloading processes, the films can be played immediately without longer waiting periods.

To apply for access to the preview database, users have to fill out an online form.

Detailed information on the streaming technology, system requirements and optimal playing conditions can be found here.

filmarchives online provides easy and free access to catalogue information of film archives from all over Europe. Via the multi-lingual web portal film works can be searched for by content, filmographic data and physical characteristics. Search results provide information about existence and location of the materials as well as contact details to facilitate the access. The focus of the database is on non-fiction material; i.e. documentary and educational films, newsreels, travelogue, advertising, scientific, industrial, experimental, sports films, as well as animation films.

DocsOnline is a streaming platform for documentary film that basically facilitates the direct transfer of payment between documentary-makers and their audience.

Doc-Film-Net is now very pleased to back showing documentaries after having trouble with our previous hosts. They are now back online as a result of the generous support provided by Simple CDN.

Joining the Docs is a British based on-demand documentary portal. Joining the Docs has released the UK documentary "Us Now" which is available for free download for a limited period via the website.

Legal distribution platform for the low-cost distribution and marketing of German and European films via the internet in Europe and the whole world.

WWW.DOCALLIANCEFILMS.COM is the new online portal of Doc Alliance for Video on Demand offering permanent access to 250 outstanding documentaries selected by the five partner festivals. Twenty new films are added monthly and these can be acquired through streaming or download.

The online platform "20 Years of Democracy in Film", launched in co-operation with the festivals One World Prague, One World Bratislava, Verzio Budapest and Watch Docs Warsaw, is going to present documentary and animated films by East and Central European filmmakers.

18 contributions from the years of 1990 to 2007 that deal with central issues of the social and political transformation processes of the last decades will be available as free streamings until the end of the year, including outstanding, multiple award-winning works by such renowned filmmakers as Jan Švankmajer, Maciej Janusz Drygas, Pavel Koutecký, Marko Škop and Tamás Almási. Films by Gerd Kroske, Thomas Heise and Wolfgang Ettlich will represent Germany. More films will be added to the list in October 2009.

Grouped in five thematic categories - Coming to Terms with the Past, the Development of Democracy, Social Insecurity, Migration, and New Social Movements -, the films will be complemented by articles providing context and promoting a cross-national discussion in the online forum.

In addition, the initiative will organise accompanying events addressing students at humanities faculties in the respective countries. DOK Leipzig will offer a course on "Images of Change -- A Comparison of Eastern European Documentary Film Practices after 1989" at the Department of European Ethnology of Berlin's Humboldt University in the 2009 summer term.

PBS has launched an online Video on Demand service including hundreds of hours of their programming. The service is entitled PBS Video. Using the service is for free and it includes full-length episodes from series like Frontline/World, NOVA and American Masters.

SOURCE: www.edn.dk

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The NBCUniversal/News Corporation's VoD site has launched a documentary section offering titles like Before the Music Dies, Super Size Me, DIG!, Buena Vista Social Club and Slacker. Hulu is offering free streaming of ad-supported content from select major television networks and film studios. At this point the service is only available for US based users. Hulu was founded in March 2007 and is co-owned by NBC Universal, News Corp. and Providence Equity Partners. It is operated as an independently working VoD portal.