One filmmaker’s fight against the cyberlockers
In late 2006, Ellen Seidler, a Harvard-educated filmmaker, journalist, and journalism teacher, decided to make a feature movie with a friend, Megan Siler, a UCLA film school grad. Called And …
Who Profits from Piracy? Ellen Seidler talks to NPR
This isn’t one of those stories about a big Hollywood company suing a big Silicon Valley company for copyright infringement. This is about a struggling independent filmmaker just trying to …
Stopping Piracy by Following the Money Trail
The idea of targeting websites financially goes back as far as there has been money changing hands on the Internet. However, the more recent history of it began when director …
PopUp Pirates: Who Profits from Piracy?
Ellen Seidler is an independent filmmaker who, after spending $250,000 of her own money, made the lesbian romantic comedy “And Then Came Lola“. However, even before the movie was officially …
Director Ellen Seidler talks to Back Stage about Online Piracy’s Negative Impact on Indie Film
Ellen Seidler isn’t in the indie game for the money. But when the filmmaker and her directing partner, Megan Siler, put up $250,000 of their own cash to make “And …