| Website | bside.com |
| Blog | bside.com/blog |
| Category | Games, Video and Entertainment |
| Phone | (512) 697-9625 |
| Employees | 13 |
| Founded | 4/05 |
| Description | Independent Film Distribution |
| Total | $7.35M |
| Series A, 10/06 Silverton Partners Maples Investments Steven Bochco | $3.1M |
| Series B, 11/08 Valhalla Partners Bill Apfelbaum Silverton Partners Maples Investments | $4.25M |
B-Side Entertainment uses technology to discover, market, and distribute independent films.
B-Side’s primary focus is providing alternative theatrical releases for films for close to zero cost. Rather than choosing cities, booking theaters, and buying mass media to advertise in local markets, B-Side engages organizations and niche communities as marketing partners through technology and incentives.
In April of 2008, B-Side opened the stoner documentary “Super High Me” digitally in 1,100 locations on a single day - the widest single day opening for a documentary ever - for less than $10,000. The film went on to gross over $2M in home video and VOD, making it one of the most profitable documentaries of 2008.
B-Side identifies films to distribute through mining of audience data collected at independent film festivals. The B-Side Festival Genius is a white-label, hosted web service that provides independent film festivals with a turn key online festival schedule. B-Side’s schedule includes rich media and social features - including ratings, reviews, and recommendations - to help audiences plan their festival and discover films. B-Side currently manages over 200 film festival web sites, including Slamdance, CineVegas, Fantastic Fest, and the Austin Film Festival.
Founded in 2005, B-Side is based in Austin, TX, with its Distribution division in New York, NY.
