Cinando Announces 2 Digital Alliances

The Marche du Film - Festival de Cannes along with Arts Alliance Media, announced a digital B2B services partnership, which offers buyers and sellers instant access from anywhere in the world, the ability to watch films and projects for sale. This new B2B Video-on-demand (VoD) tool, named Vizumu Pro, replaces the sending of screeners. "It's a cost effective way to provide instant delivery, control of viewers permissions, traceability of viewings, high level of security, as well as eliminating shipment costs,» adds Jerôme Paillard, Executive director of the Marche du Film.

Arts Alliance Media is responsible for digitising, encrypting and secur e ly delivering content (feature films, promos and trailers) to online viewers. Cinando members will have the films they select available directly on one click. The Vizumu Pro service is being made available for a platform fee of 550 euros per film title, which covers 3 different versions per title (feature, promo/short and trailer). An introductory offer of one free film will be available to the first 200 sales companies who subscribe.

Another partnership has been signed between Cinando and the ISAN International Agency enabling for each new project entered onto cinando.com, the possibility of obtaining an ISAN number, as an additional complimentary service offered to producers. ISAN (International Standard Audiovisual Number) is to film what ISBN is to literature. ISAN, an ISO standard, gives registered film content a unique, permanent, internationally recognized reference number, identifying the work and its related versions at every point of its lifecycle.

Cinando.com, previously known as cannesmarket.com since being launched in 2000 by the Marche du film, has developed into the most important database of the film industry worldwide. Information continually updated is available all year long, notably during and before the most important film markets such as Toronto, the American Film Market, Berlin and the Marche du Film.

The Cinando.com online network is exclusively dedicated to the professionals of the film industry worldwide, and is the highlight of the Marche du Film - Festival de Cannes' strategy to provide essential communication tools to the industry. It is supported by the Media Program. Cinando.com is available for a yearly fee of 95 euros, but its access is included in the Marche du Film registration fee.