Ester Brym's feature documentary Butterflies focusing on the celebrity life of YouTube personalities have been downloaded over 10,000 times since its release online 6 weeks ago.
The film premiered in July 2009 at AOF film festival in LA and signed with UK distributor Journeyman Pictures in October.
The director shot this as her directing debut on a budget put together from her savings and credit cards.
See what people say about the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4IzM59EZnI
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Now exclusively on Journeyman Pictures see the multi Award winniing documentary about YouTubers and social media, Butterflies:
http://journeyman.booserver.com/
Butterflies is a feature documentary film following the
lives of six young people that are prominent 'weblebrities' on a video
site YouTube. The film explores the new media, its power and its
future. Will the Internet overcome traditional media? Will new media
and traditional media merge? The film documents the struggles a...
Dear Butterflies:
The time has come and Butterflies, my feature doc about YouTubers, is out there for all of you to see!!!
Well, not quite yet...but soon :) Very soon!
Butterflies wrapped up the festival season at First Glance Film Fest in Philly by receiving one last Award and
we have singed a distribution deal with Journeyman Pictures from UK. They will distribute the film all around the world.
You can check updates on their website here:
Also, we got some new behind the scenes foota...
Butterflies has closed its festival run last month at the First Glance Film Festival where it received one last Award.
We are very grateful to all who supported us throughout the festival
screenings and thank you to everyone who came to see the film, even
more special thanks to all of you who came and saw more than once <3
Read some background news on how Indie Producer helped us here and then watch the video.
More info at the Butterflies Official Website
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Hello Butterflies:
The festival round is coming to its
end with Butterflies screening this Sunday for the very last time on a
big screen at First Glance Film Fest in Philadelphia.
You can find the info here:
http://www.facebook.com/ButterfliesTheMovie
From
all your requests on the videos, we realize we can't bring the film
everywhere. But, because we know that lot of you can't make the
festival screenings, we are deciding on our next step and want to bring
the Award Winning film...
Philadelphia’s Independent Film Festival is proud to announce Butterflies film to be presented at the 12th annual event on October 25th 2009 at 6PM
This will be your last chance to see the Award Winning film about YouTube on a big screen.
We have had some great experience at the film festival circle, as well as some not so very good.
It is sad to know that some film festival organizers are only there to scam filmmakers and get money out of them for
their own projects. We really hope that F...
Lives of YouTube “Weblebrities” Chronicled in Upcoming Documentary
The
increasingly popular world of new media has introduced online viewers across
the world to a diverse group of individuals in cyberspace. YouTube.com has emerged as one of the
leaders to catapult an Average Joe into an instant “Weblebrity” with the stroke
of a computer key. Meet six folks
in the feature documentary “Butterflies” who share the common goal of becoming
internet sensations via YouTube...
La Femme Film Festival will present the Award Winning documentary
Butterflies about YouTube on Thursday, October 15th at 6PM at the Davidson/Valentini
Theatre in Hollywood.
See the feature film about YouTubers one last time, before the festival season closes at the end of the month in Philadelphia.
Subscribe here for the trailers and behind the scenes:
http://www.youtube.com/ButterfliesTheMovie
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Let's get together one last time ...
We are done with our East Coast Premiere at NewFilmmakers in NYC and the Award Winning film about YouTube had an amazing response there.
Here are photos from the screening and I am so super excited to have such an amazing night with all the great people!
Next, we are heading to the Montana Independent Film Festival where Butterflies screens on October 25th.
We are going back to Los Angeles presenting Butterflies at La Femme Film Festival in the middle of October and then Philade...
Join Butterflies fanpage to get invited to all other upcoming screenings:
http://www.facebook.com/ButterfliesTheMovie.com
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September is here and Butterflies is ready:)
Sept 5th in the Czech Republic, Sept 11th and 13th and Temecula, California,
Sept 16th in New York City and Sept 26th-27th in Montana.
Now, anyone can see that it is absolutely impossible for me to make to all these fests.
Plus, I have to be in Virginia on the 23rd.
So, now what?
However, there is some good news! The Butterflies fanpage just reached its 600th fan!!!!
That is a great number! That is more than half on the way to the magical 100...
After party will follow the Friday screening :) Please come and join us or check for more dates here:
http://www.ButterfliesTheMovie.com
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Other dates and cities to be announced bellow:
Butterflies will screen at:
Freeze Fest, Czech Republic, September 5th, 2009
Temecula Valley International Film Festival, September 9-13th, 2009
New Filmmakers, New York City, September 16th, 2009
Montana Independent Film Festival, September 27th-28th, 2009
First Glance Philadelphia, October 2009
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The Award Winning documentary Butterflies has been selected into
Southern California festival in Temecula,
and will play this September at the Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival.
"Butterflies is the first feature film that profiles the YouTube community and examines the power of online media.
The film had its World Premiere last month at AOF Film Festival, where it received the Alan J. Bailey Excellence Award
for Documentary Filmmaking and was nominated for Bes...
Butterflies crew at AOF IFFFirst of all, let me thank all of you for your constant support and if
you did make it to our World Premiere, I hope you enjoyed the film.
I
would like to start by announcing that Butterflies walked out from AOF
International Film Festival with The Alan J. Bailey AOF Award of
Excellence for Documentary Filmmaking!!!!
We were also nominated for
Best Social Commentary 2009, but this Award went to the amazing Victory
of the Underdog. I honestly believe thi...
