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Amazon Video Direct has added the Berlin Film Festival to its expanding Film Festival Stars program, which launched in 2017 at Sundance. The distribution option offers filmmakers a digital distribution option powered by Amazon’s discovery tools, while also giving viewers a wider selection of festival fare that…

Amazon has a deal for Tribeca Film Festival official sections. If they give the e-retailer exclusive subscription VOD rights on its Amazon Video Direct platform, then it will pay them as much as $100,000 in addition to royalties. (Full terms here.) This is part of AVD’s Film Festival Stars program, designed to help…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon has a premiere of Jill Soloway's new series I Love Dick at this year's Sundance Film Festival, will undoubtedly be looking for a repeat of its successful acquisition last year of the acclaimed Manchester By The Sea, and has already snagged the Martin Scorsese executive produced Grateful Dead…

Amazon is getting into the user-generated content game, unveiling today Amazon Video Direct, an addition to its Prime Video offering. The self-service program will allow people to make their video content available to Amazon customers alongside the tens of thousands of movies and TV episodes the company offers for…