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+ Meet the 3 new artists on Eren’s Picks.

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10,000 pink balloons are coming to Kabul, Afghanistan. Watch the video here.

Cannes Film Festival opened on May 15th. What happened so far? All the news in this week’s industry newsletter Special Cannes.

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New blog in the Social Media Film Promotion 101 series,this time on LinkedIn. Why LinkedIn? I believe that, after Twitter, it is the most useful network for independent filmmakers to use to show their work, and connect with the right people. If Twitter is where you send links to your films and articles and share 140-character thoughts, LinkedIn will be your online resume, your professional profile and your networking platform.

Click here for some practical tips and advice on how to use LinkedIn efficiently to promote movies online and connect with experts from the film industry or the media.

This week’s WACKY TUESDAYS is highlighting a music video directed by Mikel Cee Karlsson for the Swedish quartet, The Amplifetes’ single “You/Me/Evolution”.

Read the blog and watch the “beautifully unnerving” video here.

Filmmaker Lisa Stock decided to choose Film Annex to premiere her new web series Persephone.

Persephone is a 10-episode online series following the mythological character and taking the audience into an unconventional journey to the Underworld.

Click here to read Lisa’s interview about the series, the first episode and the online premiere.

The producers of the Oscar-nominated film Beasts of the Southern Wild, Michael Gottwald and Casey Coleman, visit Film Annex to talk about the film that inspired millions of people across the world since its premiere at Sundance Film Festival in 2012.

Gottwald and Coleman take us back to the beginning of their adventure and talk about their collaboration with director, Benh Zeitlin, the casting of Quvenzhane Wallis as Hushpuppy, financing the film, how they got distribution, and what they’ve been doing to connect with their audience, amongst other stories.

Watch the interview here.

Film Annex is supporting We Believe in Balloons and its campaign to share 10,000 pink balloons with the citizens of Kabul, Afghanistan.

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Film Annex Creative Director Eren Gulfidan attended the Tribeca Film Festival. She tells us about how the online and offline world came together at the festival, with both online films and real one-on-one conversations with filmmakers.

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In this week’s newsletter, watch the director’s commentary version of some of our favorite films and follow a new web series on Afghan artists.

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