DivX, Inc. and GreenCine Announce Online Film Festival Finalists.SAN DIEGO -- GreenCine (www.greencine.com), the preeminent Video-on-Demand and 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. Rent-by-Mail company with an unsurpassed collection of independent, international and classic films, and DivX, Inc. (www.divx.com), the company that created the revolutionary, patent-pending DivX(R) video compression technology, today announced the finalists of the GreenCine Online Film Festival, presented by DivX, Inc. The finalists in the narrative feature category are: "White Knuckles" (2004), directed by Leo Scherman; "IPO (Initial Public Offering) The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of computer companies have found this acronym more exciting than any tech term they ever heard. " (2004), directed by Daniel Gamburg; "Red Cockroaches cockroaches insects which may carry Salmonella spp. in their gut and play a part in the spread of the disease. " (2004), directed by Miguel Coyula; "Peep Show a small show, or object exhibited, which is viewed through an orifice or a magnifying glass. See also: Peep " (2004), directed by J.X. Williams; and "Security" (2005), directed by Rob Nilsson ("Heat and Sunlight," "Signal 7"). The judges for the narrative competition are Holly Willis, Lawrence Inglee and Jerome "Gej" Rota. The finalists in the documentary feature category are: "Piece by Piece" (2004), directed by Nic Hill; "Empire of Juramidam" (2004), directed by Colum Stapleton; "Visiting Shane" (2005), directed by Varda Hardy; "About Baghdad" (2004), directed by Sinan Antoon, Bassam Haddad, Maya Mikdashi, Suzy Salamy and Adam Shapiro; and "The End of Suburbia" (2004), directed by Gregory Greene. The judges for the documentary category are Mark Kitchell, Hollis Gillespie and David Kopple. Both Rob Nilsson's "Security" and Varda Hardy's "Visiting Shane" enjoy their world premieres at the Online Film Festival. Each finalist will be up on www.greencine.com from June 1 through June 26, and will be available for download in the secure DivX format. Customers who download a contending film will be able to rank it, with all online audience votes counting towards an Audience Award. Each Grand Prize winner as selected by the panel of judges Panel of Judges is an indie pop band from Melbourne, Australia. Members
For details and updates for the GreenCine Online Film Festival, please see our festival web page at http://filmfestival.greencine.com. About GreenCine GREENCINE LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control is at the forefront of online DVD rental Online DVD rentals allow a person to rent DVDs by mail. Generally, all interaction between the renter and the rental company takes place through the company's website. How it works Most companies operate on the following model: VoD - video on demand and DVD offerings, as well as an incredible array of film-related interviews and articles, please visit our award-winning site -- http://www.greencine.com. About DivX, Inc. DivX, Inc. is a consumer-focused video technology company positioned at the center of multimedia convergence. The company's core offering is the DivX(R) video codec, among the world's most popular video compression technologies with over 160 million users worldwide. The patent-pending DivX video technology offers DVD-quality at 10 times greater compression than MPEG-2 files, enabling full length films to easily fit on a CD or be delivered over broadband connections. DivX video technology powers a range of applications that span the convergence value chain, from a secure IP-based video-on-demand solution to next-generation consumer electronics products and video software applications. DivX, Inc. is headquartered in San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. . |
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