INDIAN WILDLIFE FILM PORTAL TIES UP WITH GOOGLE VIDEO

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Visual mapping of the Indian subcontinent

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08/30/2006 02:08PM

Visual mapping of the Indian subcontinent

 

Ref: Visual mapping of the Indian subcontinent : Wilderness Films enters

into a content arrangement as a premium partner of Google Video!

 

Shubho:

 

Thanks for calling. Let's correspond at length!

 

I write to you from Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest factual

content aggregator from South Asia. While we currently own 750, 000 digital

and 35 mm stills in our archive, and over 3000 hours of broadcast factual

and travel content, we have only recently started exploring international

distribution of our content. While content is our forte, we are also the

largest broadcast service house in India, with dozens of camera units and

crews kitted out with the best gear to spread out across South Asia and

create every kind of content.

 

One of these channels of distribution is the online video market. As the

result of our unique contract with Google, for the first time ever, factual

Indian content (along the lines of National Geographic or Discovery, but

entirely Indian in origin and creation), is now available online, for an

international audience, as part of an IPTV initiative by Wilderness Films

India Ltd., a South Asian alternative to global factual programming

channels. We are the only south Asian company that Google has contracted

with to provide content for the Google Video store.

 

We are making a big push to become the largest aggregators, producers and

distributors of online factual content in Asia. We are already acquiring

the copyright to material owned by many small content libraries,

commissioning a lot of fieldwork all across South Asia, and cooking plans

to corner medical, travel, tourist and urban content for the internet.

 

To see our uploaded content, please visit www.video.google.com and punch in

'Wilderness Films India' in the search box and you will find some 350 hours

in total, out of our rapidly-growing archive of 3000 hours. Please go

through all 90 pages of uploaded clips, and notice the variety of subject

matter. We are adding 14 hours of online material each week, and will

continue this process for the rest of the year. One can download entire

clips to one's computer, but do keep in mind that the lower resolution is

explained by the fact that this is not intended for the broadcast market,

but more for the educational and consumer markets... However, all material

has been originally shot on high end formats such as High Definition or

standard definition Digital Betacam, and can be sourced at these

resolutions directly from us, for the broadcast market.

 

Last month, our first full-length feature film We're No Monks also

premiered on the site. Punch in " No Monks " to download the three parts of

the film.

 

The content in our archive grows in extent and scope almost every single

day, what with our 50 crew members and a majority of our 90 camera units

roving in the field, every single day, all over South Asia!

 

Ours is an effort to showcase Indian content on an international platform,

and thus create a new and different world view on India. The idea is to

break from stereotypes and showcase south Asia to the world, in the form of

a variety of experiences and situations. We provide hitherto unavailable

visual material for use in a variety of arenas including geography,

education, science, travel, corporate use, and numerous other applications.

Some of this is rare footage from regions that have never been visited by

westerners due to political or other restrictions...

 

Also, do visit our newly revamped website (soon to be a conservation and

wildlife portal) www.wildfilmsindia.com

 

I look forward to hearing from you!

 

All the best,

Rupin

 

Rupin Dang

Managing Director, Wilderness Films India Ltd.

1 Factory Road, Ring Road South, New Delhi 110 029

 

Phone/Fax: +91 11 26191180; Office: +91 11 26198255, 26198954, 26163766

Email: wfi www.wildfilmsindia.com Mobile: +91 98 100 19704