Filmmakers Alexander Berberich and John W Yost have launched Fifth Column Features, a boutique motion picture studio and online distribution company dedicated to bringing independent filmmaking to wider, more diverse audiences while supporting filmmakers and their careers.
FCF will offer a new digital platform for film distribution featuring the industry’s first pay-as-you-wish price model. The founders emphasise that, unlike self-distribution platforms currently available through iTunes and Amazon.com, filmmakers can house their work with FCF and retain a majority of the profits. They add that consumers will have the freedom to set their own price to download each film through fifthcolumnfeatures.com.
Berberich (Bonne Année) said: “Every year there are dozens, if not hundreds, of quality feature films that slip through the film festival and distribution cracks. We want to provide not only a means of digital distribution for these films, but a network of like-minded filmmakers and film lovers that will become a valuable community of support.”
FCF has also announced its first in-production feature film, White Creek. A town in turmoil, White Creek is bound by an impenetrable class system and led by a crazed militiaman hell-bent on controlling the valley. View the teaser trailer here. More information about the company and film from Fifthcolumnfeatures.com.
