A new website which hosts independent films was featured in today’s paper. At SnagFilms.com, you can watch full-length documentary films for free, but they also make it easy for you to take the films with you and put them anywhere on the web. When you embed a widget on your web site, you open a virtual movie theater and become a “Filmanthropist.” With a library of 225 documentaries, you are bound to find films that resonate with your interests. There is a widget for EVERY film, so any film you like can be snagged.
Washington Capitals majority owner Ted Leonsis has successfully produced two documentary films in recent years. Snagfilms is his latest a Web company which will distribute such films online for free, creating an outlet for moviemakers who have difficulty getting their films shown in cinemas. SnagFilms aims to generate revenue through advertising, which will be split evenly between Leonsis’s company and the filmmakers. To view the Washington post article on the site and company, click here.
To get you started, below you will see that I have snagged a film called Paperclips for you to watch. It’s 82 minutes and it details how the students at Whitwell Middle School in rural Tennessee met Holocaust survivors from around the world and how the experience transformed them and their community. Struggling to grasp the concept of six-million Holocaust victims, the students decide to collect six-million paper clips to better understand the extent of this crime against humanity. It’s a great story of the transformative nature of education.
