This Week in Indies: September 2nd, 2016

A weekly collection of articles, interviews, and filmmaker tips to keep you in the know.

VOD News

Sony to Add Rental Option to Its 4K Movie Service, Expand Streaming to PCs

CBS All Access ‘Ad-Free’ Video Subscription Option will Still Carry Commercials in Live TV

YouTube Creators Cry Censorship As ‘Inappropriate’ Content Is No Longer Monetizable on the Platform

Filmmaker Tips & Tricks

How We Made $1.5 Million Self-Distributing Our Doc: The Six-Step Playbook

Emerging Technologies

First Light Field Footage Shows Potential, Pitfalls of Roomscale Cinematic VR

Is This Film the First True Live-Action VR?

Here’s the Tech NBC Built to Stream the Olympics

‘Morgan’: IBM Creates the First Movie Trailer Using AI

Industry by the Numbers

The Trouble with Semi-Niche Streaming Platforms

YouTube’s Pay Video Service Is Already Storming Past Other New Offerings

2016 Trends/Predictions

China’s Morality Censors Take Aim at the Country’s Film Industry

The Hotdog Delusion: Sausage Party and the Rise of Hollywood Atheism

Venice Market Expands, Rebrands, Aiming to Become Prominent Production Platform

Now Accepting Applications

Apply for Micro Grants for Short Docs About Social Inequality

Awards & Festivals

San Diego Film Festival Announces Full 2016 Lineup

Student Academy Award Winners Announced

Funny Stuff

Honest Trailers – Batman: The Killing Joke