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Gravitas Ventures has secured worldwide rights to the Christopher Cannucciari-directed documentary Banking On Bitcoin. The film follows the ideological battle underway between fringe utopists and mainstream capitalism. Bitcoin’s early pioneers sought to blur the lines of sovereignty and the financial status quo. After years of underground development, Bitcoin grabbed the attention of a curious public, as well as the ire of the regulators the technology had subverted. Yet…...

The distributor has picked up worldwide rights to Christopher Cannucciari’s documentary.

Gravitas Ventures plans a day-and-date theatrical and VOD launch on January 6 to the film about the digital currency and its impact on the market.

Dan Fisher brokered the deal for Gravitas Ventures with Preferred Content on behalf of Periscope Entertainment.

Vertical Entertainment has signed North American rights from High Octane Pictures to The Veil following a bidding war that started at the Afm. Vertical plans a second quarter 2017 theatrical launch on the action film directed by Brent Ryan Green.Bond/360 has acquired Us rights from Cinetic to Francesco Carrozzini’s Franca: Chaos & Creation, the documentary about the director’s mother, Italian Vogue editor-in-chief Franca Sozzani. The film will get a limited theatrical and digital day-and-date launch in 2017Pro-tek Vaults will develop for Paramount Pictures a state-of-the-art storage facility to preserve the studio’s film library. Pro-tek plans to complete construction of the new vaults in the...

5) Quadron “Hey Love”

Quadron’s pleasant “Hey Love” kicks off this week’s list and it doesn’t set the tone for the rest of the list at all. Nice juxtaposition though, maybe? The performance driven video is fun and enjoyable as it focuses on a number of different dance routines, front woman Coco Maja Hastrup Karshøj looks great too.

4) Kingsley Flood “Sun Gonna Lemme Shine”

Directed by Chris Cannucciari

Our Editor-In-Chief Ricky D brought this music video to my attention this week and what a great, little video it is too. “Sun Gonna Lemme Shine” consists of a kid trying to fit in until all the other kids decided to adopt his uniques style instead. It’s crazy cute and the kid’s expressions are all spot on.

3)Palma Violets “We Found Love”

This is an awesome party video primarily filmed with a head-mounted camera to further enhance the awesome visuals.

Clara Cannucciari is 93 years old and knows her way around the kitchen – and how to make cost-effective meals. Her skills, which she learned from her mother during the Great Depression, are coming in handy given cutbacks, layoffs and the nation’s overall recession. Christopher Cannucciari launched the first three episodes online in summer 2007, without a distributor. "As a filmmaker, I am excited to distribute independently,” he said. “Technology has finally reached a place that makes distribution costs so minimal that the artist can self-distribute and retain the rights of their works."...

Great Depression Cooking features the spry, still-brown-haired-90-something-year-old Clara cooking- pasta with peas, egg drop soup, cooked bread, and more, all while recounting brief snippets of her memories of the Great Depression. Shot by her grandson, Christopher Cannucciari (the Grandson/Grandmother duo is a common ingredient in online cooking shows) the results are surprisingly subtle. Originally released in 2007, the web series is still a reminder of the dark undertones of our own unruly present, but gives way to a lightness of blue-collar food porn served up by a host who knows no pretension. Clara’s recollections include neighborhood whiskey brewing, which led to the ‘smell of yeast all over the town,’ and cooking carb-heavy (pasta, potatoes) because that’s what they could afford, but for the most part her anecdotes about the depression are very brief: ‘The depressions (sic) was very bad…We always had potatoes ‘cause that’s what we could afford…...

Over in our Festival Ambassador section, Jason Guerrasio reports from Cinequest, where he sat in on an interesting panel discussion entitled "The Marriage of Television and the Internet." In the piece Jason relays comments from reps of Intel and Move Networks from subjects like Hulu and emerging internet ad models, but he also reports on an independent filmmaker who is making real money online where others have failed. From the piece: One filmmaker during the Q&A pointed out his success on the Web. Christopher Cannucciari, who has is debut feature premiering at Cinequest, New Brooklyn, talked how his Web series, Great Depression Cooking With Clara, is making him a good chunk of change, and attention. "After putting ads by Google on the...