Digital Film Cloud Network (DFCN) announced today a partnership with Cinando, the professional film database launched and managed by the Marché du Film. Together Cinando and DFCN will address the growing inefficiencies in the physical film rights markets which are being driven by the increasing number of new films entering into the market each year. Through this partnership all Cinando users are able to easily integrate their existing accounts onto DFCN, making it possible to create profiles for each project on the DFCN platform by simply using the information which was already on the Cinando database. Through DFCN’s platform, users and content creators can easily streamline the business process of financing, licensing, and distributing their product, whether it is film or television. Ultimately, this collaboration allows buyers to access more products, increase sales for sales agents and sellers, and reduce overall costs for both parties.
DFCN is the first in the industry to offer a secure, global, cloud-based software platform that automates and streamlines the end-to-end business processes associated with financing and licensing of motion pictures. Commercially launched in November 2014, the DFCN Film Rights Marketplace has since rapidly grown to over 10,000+ films trading within its marketplace. With the integration of the DFCN and Cinando software platforms, Cinando’s 60,000+ users will be able to easily browse, acquire, and make their movie rights available within the DFCN Film Rights Marketplace, 24x7 globally.
“With over 8,000 films entering the global distribution market this year, and 200,000+ Sales Agents, Distributors and Exhibitors scattered across the world, each with their own business objectives, rights holdings, sales plans, and revenue targets, the approach of buying and selling movie rights licenses at physical marketplaces has become a costly and highly inefficient proposition,” said Ray Bell, CEO of Digital Film Cloud Network. “Our rapid customer growth and industry-wide endorsement is testament to the demand for an online marketplace that directly addresses these growing issues.”
“We are excited to be able to offer our Cinando users the ability to easily post their films in the DFCN Film Rights Marketplace for financing and licensing,” said Jérôme Paillard, Executive Director of Cinando and Marche du film. “We need to erase the boundaries between physical and digital markets to increase the efficiency of film professionals. This is a radical step that only Marche du film, Cinando, and solutions as DFCN can deliver.”
This is the first of many steps in what looks like the future of movie rights trading, operating in a more efficient way that will reduce the costs of sales and acquisition, and which will increase sales through global reach.
Alfredo Guilbert, COO Digital Film Cloud Network added, “The end goal of our partnership with Cinando is to provide film professionals with the ability to leverage both the physical and virtual markets more cost-effectively trade and move their film projects forward.”
For further information about the Digital Film Cloud Network please visit: https://dfcn.com/
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About Digital Film Cloud Network (DFCN)
The Digital Film Cloud Network (www.DFCN.com) is a software platform that provides the film industry with an industry standards based, business-to-business global marketplace that removes many of the manual business process inefficiencies found today within the promotion, financing, licensing, and secure delivery of digital films.
About Cinando
Cinando was launched by the Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes in 2003 as the complete database of the attendees at Cannes. Since then, it has become the premier network for film professionals offering an ample gateway into the film industry: contacts, films, projects in development, screening schedules during major film markets, full features available for screening. Cinando currently exists in three languages: English, Spanish and Chinese.
Along with the filters to narrow down the research and tools to prepare for film markets, Cinando offers all the members services to promote films online as well as a large network to communicate with their peers.