DVD EXPRESS Takes World to L.A. Independent Film Festival; Online Jury to Vote on First-Ever "LA-LA" Award.LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--April 8, 1999-- View and Vote on Trailers and Clips From Movies at the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Independent Film Festival Exclusively at DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. EXPRESS Move over, snobby snob n. 1. One who tends to patronize, rebuff, or ignore people regarded as social inferiors and imitate, admire, or seek association with people regarded as social superiors. 2. film-fest judges! The Internet crowd at DVD EXPRESS is soon to be overflowing with praise for Hollywood's "bubbling-under" auteurs
The term auteur (French for author) is used to describe film directors (or, more rarely, producers, or writers) who are considered to have a distinctive, recognizable style, because they (a) repeatedly . DVD EXPRESS, the largest online video retailer, will be taking film fans from all over the world "backstage" at the upcoming Los Angeles Independent Film Festival (LAIFF LAIFF Los Angeles Independent Film Festival ), enabling them to vote on their favorite independent films in "keeping-it-real" time online, and crown the first-ever people's voice award, which it has nicknamed "LA-LA." As one of the sponsors of the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, which takes place April 15-20, DVD EXPRESS will present a chance for Internet film buffs to view one- to three-minute clips and trailers from LAIFF films in competition and vote on their favorites online at http://www.dvdexpress.com to determine the winner. A "Backstage Pass A backstage pass is an employee pass which allows its bearer access to employees-only areas at a performance venue. They are most commonly associated with rock music groups. " icon on the site will direct users to the viewing area. Viewing and voting will take place at DVD EXPRESS from April 9 to April 30, which means users will have a sneak peek at some of the competitors a week in advance, beginning this Friday. Clips are made possible with InterVu (http://www.intervu.com), a video-streaming technology. DVD EXPRESS will also offer coverage from the show in a section called "Star Sitings." If there's a trailer that just begs to be seen in its entirety, DVD EXPRESS will provide ticket and theater information, times and locations, maps for getting to the theater, film descriptions and other festival coverage. However, if users just can't make it to the actual show, ongoing coverage of the LAIFF will be available exclusively for DVD EXPRESS viewers. "We're thrilled to offer the Internet public the opportunity to view the independent films that will be showcased at LAIFF this year," said Alison Johns, vice president and creative director of DVD EXPRESS. "Since DVD EXPRESS is located in Hollywood, we felt that making the spirit of this city's underground films available to a mass audience via the Internet was a natural extension." About DVD EXPRESS Hollywood-based DVD EXPRESS is recognized as the largest online video retailer. Located at www.dvdexpress.com, the Web-site environment offers shoppers nearly 3,000 DVD movies as well as DVD-ROM DVD-ROM: see digital versatile disc. A read-only DVD disc used to permanently store data files. DVD-ROM discs are widely used to distribute large software applications that exceed the capacity of a CD-ROM disc. software at up to 50 percent off. DVD EXPRESS, which recently surpassed 1 million DVDs sold online, specializes in fast turnaround by stocking and shipping DVD titles directly from its Hollywood warehouse. In addition to online retail, the site offers customers a robust online community with entertaining DVD-related editorial content, contests and promotions. DVD EXPRESS also operates DVD.COM (http://www.dvd.com), the Web's first full-service information destination for up-to-the-minute information on DVD entertainment, technology and news. DVD EXPRESS can be found online through its extensive partnerships and advertising deals with the AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Network, AOL.com, CompuServe, Go.com (formerly Infoseek), NBC's Videoseeker, Compaq, MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). , Gateway and AltaVista. |
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