UPDATE with more details: Shield 5, created and directed by Anthony Wilcox (Hello Carter), debuts today on the photo-sharing platform Instagram with a new way of telling scripted stories: via 28 15-second episodes running throughout the month. Each 15-second episode will be accompanied by a photograph that also will…

Vimeo says it will fund a minimum of five movies by female filmmakers this year "to help close the gender equality gap." The program, part of the video sharing site’s "Share the Screen" initiative, was rolled out today at the Sundance Film Festival.  "It's extremely unfortunate that the traditional industry has…

Vimeo has announced its first original programming slate, which includes The Outs web series from Adam Goldman and Sasha Winters; Darby Forever, a short film from Saturday Night Live‘s Aidy Bryant; and Vimeo’s first original stand-up special, Bianca Del Rio's Rolodex Of Hate Comedy Special: Live From Austin. All three…

Hasbro is bringing its entire library of classic animated titles for franchises such as Transformers and G.I. Joe to online distributor Vimeo on Demand. The initial shows to launch are Transformers: Generation 1 and Jem and the Holograms, with hundreds of episodes from 13 franchises debuting at different points…

Happy Stoner’s Day! Vimeo’s web comedy series High Maintenance is crossing over to TV with a six-episode order by HBO. Additionally, the premium cable network will make the existing 19 episodes of the show available later this year on HBO, HBO NOW and HBO GO. Following a Brooklyn pot dealer who delivers to clients…

EXCLUSIVE: X-Men writer and producer Simon Kinberg has come on board Irish filmmaker Ruairi Robinson’s white hot sci-fi project The Leviathan as producer. Neill Blomkamp (Chappie) will also join the formidable creative team as exec producer. Jim Uhls (Fight Club) is penning the sceeenplay. Robinson’s 3-1/2 minute…

Firefly is never going to be revived, but fans hoping to see stars Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk reunited onscreen will get their wish. The pair’s proposed online comedy series, Con Man, a comedic look at life as a science fiction actor on the convention circuit, has broken multiple funding records on crowdfunding…

Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief, the Alex Gibney documentary about Scientology’s roots and its role in Hollywood, has been acquired for exclusive first-window VOD distribution by Vimeo. The film will appear through Vimeo On Demand beginning in September, after HBO’s holdback period ends following the…

Indiegogo and Vimeo are joining forces with the latter to serve as the preferred distribution platform for the film funding site. In addition, Vimeo has also committed to a film fund for select Indiegogo feature campaigns in exchange for exclusive distribution on Vimeo On Demand. Additionally, there will be a…

Vimeo today announced deals to create online video-on-demand storefronts for long-form content with the publishers behind The Atlantic, TVGuide.com, TV.Com, Metacritic and TEN: The Enthusiast Network. “What we’re doing is empowering premium publishers to create storefronts on their sites,” said Vimeo’s GM for Audience…

Online video distributor Vimeo has partnered with Maker Studios to finance and develop long-form video projects for on-demand distribution, and to teach the people behind the rest of Maker’s 55,000 channels how they can sell or rent their own projects through the Vimeo paywall. “We are working to fund original…

YouTube stars KickThePj (a.k.a. PJ Liguori) and Sawyer Hartman will each launch an online-video series exclusively on Vimeo On Demand through a deal announced this morning with New Form Digital Studios. Two more series will be developed later this year as part of the New Form-Vimeo deal. Liguori and Hartman won…