Feature Film/ Art-house Online Movie Service (Streamed/AVOD) - ongoing
Challenges: Accelerated content acquisition for  feature films (art house, festival, catalog library theatrical)  for new online streaming, film-lovers site, based in UK and with rollouts to other English regions and later other European regions. New category of rights, to source (ad-vod for feature films online);  negotiation, operational activities and strategic assistance and partnerships.

Rights Stuff Services:

• Premium rate ad-VOD/sponsored, targeted film-fan magazine-style portal; new film rights category and business model
• Duration: 1¼+ year from launch (ongoing), alongside founders and in lieu of hiring in-house content team (outsourced)
• Input into content strategy,positioning
• Film scouting, liaison with editorial team, deal structuring (acquisition and related business affairs/ operational activities in ramp-up phase and through international roll-outs
• Assistance with Corporate positioning, P.R., and strategic partnerships including  funding, financing, platform and content affiliations

Rights Stuff’s role includes:

Sourcing, target lists  and engaging with content, suppliers)for key festival, art-house, indie and mini-major feature films (producers, distributors/sales agents (including MPAA studio branches/ art-house arms),). Also complementary niche, film-thematic, eclectic and harder-to-find  movie programming

Business modelling, intensive rights carving, negotiation and persuasion, including assistance to producers/distributors figuring out their ability to license to new platforms, for this new area of online VOD to PC (ad-VOD) for feature films

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