Cinequest PPV -- Revolutionary Distribution.

Pay-Per-View Downloads Now Available on Cinequest Site

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Film institute Cinequest is pleased to announce the launch of Phase III of the Cinequest Distribution label. Now available are 29 features and 28 shorts from the Cinequest Exclusive Collection as pay-per-view downloads on Cinequest Online (www.cinequestonline.org). An additional nine features and 101 shorts will be available on Cinequest Online for PPV downloading under the banner of the Cinequest Discovery Collection. Pricing is $4.99/feature film and $1.99/short film.

Revolution of Distribution

Cinequest Distribution (launched November 2006) is making its name in the world of film by offering distribution solutions that work for the Maverick gems that get lost after their festival life. Many of the world's truly deserving films do not receive traditional distribution with some estimating that less than one percent of U.S., and less than five percent of international indies receive Hollywood distribution. Cinequest, long a harbinger of the use of new technology to empower artists, has created a distribution solution to deliver films to fans worldwide via unique Internet marketing and delivery plus comprehensive DVD. In November, Cinequest Distribution launched the first phase of its distribution plan by making available a DVD catalogue of 35 Maverick titles. The second phase of Cinequest Distribution was the availability of the Cinequest collection on Jaman's exciting PPV social cinema Internet site.

Cinequest has put together a powerful business partnership that incorporates Intel's[R] (Nasdaq:INTC) Viiv[TM] system, Jaman's online community for the distribution of world cinema, Netflix Inc.'s (Nasdaq:NFLX) vast DVD audience, and Cinequest Online's established base, into a multifaceted, fluid system of distribution not previously available to filmmakers and film fans. Because of this unique partnership, Cinequest is capable of tailor-making a distribution package for each film thereby maximizing profitability. DVD wholesale relationships are expanding to include mass-market retail centers via the sales forces of Baker & Taylor, Ingram Entertainment, TNT Media, VPD and Waxworks.

The label shrewdly invests in a collection of high-quality yet non Hollywood-type fare that until recently has been unable to effectively reach its market. These are not mega-budgeted, celebrity-driven films but instead are the kind of movies millions of film fans desire, but previously have not had access to outside of film festivals or via Netflix. New technologies of secure Internet downloading are now changing the playing field of film distribution. After a hundred years of global domination by a small handful of distribution companies deciding what the world can see, the democratization of the film industry has arrived. No longer will the consumer be relegated to choices handed to them by large Hollywood corporations. "What we learned from users of Cinequest Online, our premier film downloading site, was that there was a huge market of people hungry for non-Hollywood fare," says Halfdan Hussey, Executive Director, Co-Founder of Cinequest. "The explosion of film festivals worldwide also demonstrates the market's want of this type of filmmaking."

Cinequest, located in the Silicon Valley of California and run by experienced film producers, innovators and business leaders, remains ahead of the curve in the world of new and emerging distribution technologies while understanding that DVD is the mature and most important current market for quality cinema. First known for its film festival showcasing Maverick film and the digital technologies that have empowered and revolutionized filmmaking, Cinequest's first step three years ago into expanded film delivery was through the pioneering work of Cinequest Online, which leveraged Open Media Network (OMN) technologies to provide the Internet's premier site of quality DVD to HD downloads, delivered efficiently and safely. Cinequest's new initiatives with partners Intel and soon-to-launch Jaman.com will continue to keep Cinequest in a leadership position in Internet marketing and distribution. Cinequest adds a powerful DVD distribution component to complement the Internet capacities.

Empowering the Maverick

Cinequest is a premier motion picture institute that produces:

* Cinequest Film Festival, a discovery festival of Maverick films and technology forums.

* Cinequest Distribution: delivering films to fans worldwide through leading Internet technologies plus DVD.

* Cinequest Screenwriting Competition.

* Camp Cinequest: a groundbreaking youth education program.

Cinequest Film Festival 17 will occur February 28 - March 11, 2007 www.cinequest.org