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  • Feb
    3

    Washington Post: SnagFilms expands movie selection, distribution channels

    Posted by Ross W. Koenig

    Web startup SnagFilms got in on the Internet-turned-TV movement three years ago, carving out a niche as the place to view documentary films and pass them around the Internet via blogs and social media. But last week the District-based company took perhaps its boldest step yet away from that narrow mission by expanding its library to include more fictional titles and making its content available through a broader slate of distributors.

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  • Jan
    31

    SnagFilms Grabs Exclusive Digital Rights to Sundance Drama 'Kinyarwanda'

    Posted by Ross W. Koenig

    SnagFilms has acquired exclusive digital rights to Kinyarwanda, which won the world cinema dramatic audience award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, where it had its premiere. The film will debut via SnagFilms partners such as Comcast Xfinity, FiOS, DIRECTV, iTunes, Amazon and VUDU.

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    Filed Under: Press, News
  • Jan
    30

    SnagFilms and the D.C. Office of Motion Picture and Television Development Announce Winner of Washington’s Best Film Competiti

    Posted by Ross W. Koenig

    SnagFilms and the D.C. Office of Motion Picture and Television Development
    Announce Winner of Washington’s Best Film Competition

    George Washington University Student Film “Released to Life” Named Best Film by D.C.
    Mayor Vincent Gray and SnagFilms Founder and Chairman Ted Leonsis

    Washington D.C. – January 30, 2012 – SnagFilms and the D.C. Office of Motion
    Picture and Television Development announced the winner of Washington’s Best
    Film competition today at an event at George Washington University. Student
    film “Released for Life,” produced by students attending The Documentary Center
    at George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs was named
    Best Film by D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray and SnagFilms founder and chairman Ted
    Leonsis. Steve Knapp, President of George Washington University, was also present
    for the award ceremony and screening of the film.

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  • Jan
    30

    SnagFilms Closes New Financing Round

    Posted by Ross W. Koenig

    Market Watch- Wall Street Journal
    All Current Investors Participate; New Investors Terry Semel and David Fialkow Added Washington, DC – January 30, 2012 – SnagFilms announced today that it has
    closed a new, seven-figure financing round to accelerate the growth the company
    achieved in 2011. All current investors participated, including SnagFilms founder
    and chairman Ted Leonsis, Steve and Jean Case’s Revolution, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and
    Comcast Ventures, along with two new investors: veteran media and
    internet executive Terry Semel (who also joins the Company’s Board) and David
    Fialkow, co-founder and managing director of General Catalyst Partners. In addition
    to new equity, the company has arranged its first debt facility with Silicon Valley
    Bank. Total available equity and debt financing is $7MM.

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