SHOOT Magazine today announced its new SHOOT Publicity Wire, a targeted real-time news and information release distribution service.
The SHOOT Publicity Wire offers PR, marketing professionals, and entrepreneurs a powerful tool to communicate to a hard-to-reach vertical market comprised of news agencies, search engines, journalists, industry publications, customers, prospects, and influential industry decision-makers in the advertising, broadband, filmmaking, and television production and postproduction industries.
Designed as an industry service, the SHOOT Publicity Wire is powered by SHOOTonline.com, the leading news website for commercial, broadband video, branded entertainment, and multimedia content production. SHOOT’s Publicity Wire will deliver direct access to a highly targeted global marketplace comprised of, both, the advertising and filmmaking industries in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Middle East.
SHOOT is excited to offer the industry this new distribution channel. “The SHOOT Publicity Wire allows our customers to focus their publicity releases on the companies, agencies, journalists and publications that cover their industry while also getting their message out to a wider business and prosumer audience,” explains Roberta Griefer, SHOOT Magazine Publisher & Editorial Director. The new service will assist marketing and communications specialists in leveraging the power of search to reach and increase the visibility of their publicity releases to anyone searching on the Web, including media, industry, clients, prospects, and prosumers/consumers, as well as the industry stakeholders and influencers that affect the advertising, broadband video, cinema, media and television businesses.
SHOOT Publicity Wire service will help companies and agencies achieve major international press coverage, top placement on search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. Our goal is to provide highly targeted publicity news release distribution focusing on ease of use, flexibility, speed of delivery, audience coverage, archiving, and cost-effectiveness as the key benefits.
SHOOT Publicity Wire releases will be fully accessible to any SHOOTonline public, registered and paid users from a highly visible landing page within SHOOTonline.com. The Publicity Wire archives will be searchable and accessible for 2 years to all users of SHOOTonline.com. Releases will be organized by category, date, and fully key word searchable.
SHOOT’s Publicity Wire offers global publicity release distribution via digital feeds, opt-in ePublicity Release Alert called Brand New[s], site archiving and indexing, website Search Engine Optimization (SEO), databases and online services, and newspapers, media organizations and television stations around the world.
As part of its commitment to providing the best exposure for its clients’ publicity releases, SHOOT Publicity Wire will enter into more agreements with media organizations and industry webmasters to provide placement of customer releases on high-traffic news portals and industry websites.
The service will be available to all registered (free) users of SHOOTonline.com in mid-January 2008. To use the publicity wire service a registered user will be able to purchase credits and immediately upload releases for distribution. For further information, to sign up for the SHOOT Publicity Wire RSS feed, and to subscribe to Brand New[s] go to www.shootonline.com/go/publicitywire.
DGA Feature Nominees: Audiard, Baker, Berger, Corbet and Mangold
The field of feature nominees for the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards spanning two categories is set. Nominated for the DGA honor for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for 2024 are: Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez, Sean Baker for Anora, Edward Berger for Conclave, Brady Corbet for The Brutalist, and James Mangold for A Complete Unknown.
The DGA also revealed the nominees for the Michael Apted Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Theatrical Feature Film. The first-time narrative feature directors are: Payal Kapadia for All We Imagine as Light, Megan Park for My Old Ass, RaMell Ross for Nickel Boys, Halfdan Ullman Tondel for Armand, and Sean Wang for Diddy.
“2024 has been a truly extraordinary year for storytelling--and today’s nominees have created audacious and unique films that expand the possibilities of cinematic excellence,” said DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter. “I am thrilled to congratulate all our nominated directors for their brilliant work, which is visionary, inspirational and speaks to the depth of the human experience. To be chosen by one’s peers is the true marker of outstanding directorial achievement and what makes these nominations so very special.”
The winners will be announced at the 77th Annual DGA Awards on Saturday, February 8.
Here’s a fuller rundown of the nominees in both DGA Award categories:
THEATRICAL FEATURE FILM
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for 2024 (in alphabetical order):
JACQUES AUDIARD
Emilia Pérez
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