Withoutabox & CustomFlix Team up to Offer Complete On-Demand DVD Fulfillment

This new standard-setting service, which will be introduced thisyear, plays to the strengths of both companies by offering streamlinedfulfillment of industry and film festival screeners as well asopportunities for bulk DVDs and individual retail purchases.Filmmakers will be able to manage all ordering, sales, and shipmenttracking directly from their consoles at withoutabox.com, where theyalready manage their international festival submissions, as well asfrom withoutabox.com/audience, where they manage their relationshipsto audiences and consumers. This pushes the power of the filmmaker tothe next level in creating a self-distribution network - fromgrassroots to supply-and-demand at the highest levels.

"For filmmakers, this means the long-awaited, fully-clickablefestival submission. No need to touch it or put anything in the mail,"said Joe Neulight, President of Withoutabox. "This service will enablesubmissions to be done for them from anywhere in the world."

All DVD units created for filmmakers under this relationship willfeature 4-color disc printing and lacquer coating, an Amaray-stylecase, 4-color cover insert, and professional over wrap. The industryand festival screener copies will additionally include custom-printeddata unique to each submission, as well as prominent industry screenerwarning labels.

"Withoutabox is a natural fit for CustomFlix given both of ourlong histories of serving independent filmmakers," said DanaLoPiccolo-Giles, co-founder and Managing Director of CustomFlix. "Welook forward to offering Withoutabox's filmmakers fully-tracked anddelivered film festival submission DVDs at prices that will be hard tobeat, even for filmmakers doing it themselves."

As a result of this service, Withoutabox partner festivals canexpect to see a sharp rise in the manufacturing quality and technicalcompatibility of submitted DVD screeners, helping to eliminate afrustrating problem on both sides of the submission process. Fullytrack-able and reliable shipments will also reduce the number ofentries that go missing, even while the scale of the operationpromises to dramatically reduce shipping costs for filmmakers. Finalpricing will be announced upon launch of the service.

"Withoutabox is building a fully-integrated toolkit forself-distribution and we work with only the top companies," said DavidStraus, CEO and co-founder of Withoutabox, Inc. "CustomFlix has builtan inventory-free on-demand distribution system already used bythousands of filmmakers that easily scales to meet the needs of ourmembers whether they require one or one thousand DVDs."

The relationship will further offer an opt-in path for Withoutaboxtitles to list on Amazon.com, the world's leading online retailer.Filmmakers who choose this option will be able to list and de-listtheir titles on Amazon.com right from their Withoutabox consoles,track their royalty payments in real-time, and collect their funds.Opt-In to the Amazon.com listing is not required to participate in theother offerings.

About Withoutabox, Inc.

Withoutabox is The Network for Independents. In operation since2000, the Company developed and patented The International FilmFestival Submission System, now connecting more than 80,000 filmmakersto more than 1800 film festivals worldwide, including 400 onlinesubmission partners. Audience by Withoutabox is the Company's socialnetworking site for filmmakers, film lovers, and festival-goers,featuring, blogs, ratings, reviews, calendars, and ticketing for theIndie scene. Withoutabox's Distribution Lab assists filmmakers ingetting their films to market through pioneering concepts ofpersonalization and the "long tail" while allowing filmmakers to holdon to their rights.

About CustomFlix

CustomFlix, a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com, is the leaderof on-demand video publishing. Their mission is to help independentfilmmakers, content providers, educators and video producers connecttheir programs to a worldwide audience. With unique on-demand videopublishing services, the company brings together the best componentsof just-in-time disc production and the marketing reach of theInternet to give video professionals a new way to bring a few, or afew thousand, copies of a program to market.