December 4, 2007 – San Francisco, CA

imeem, a leading social network, and distributor Microcinema International have announced a content partnership to offer full–length screenings from Microcinema’s wide range of art-focused film and video and ambient media on imeem. This partnership will allow imeem’s online community the opportunity to view innovative productions never before seen outside of museums and film and video festivals. Additionally, this collaboration will enable Microcinema, a specialty-market distributor, to exercise new channels of online distribution by connecting with over 18 million users on imeem’s social network.

The partnership will launch with the showing of underground graffiti documentary film Write and Unite, screened in its entirety for an entire weekend beginning Friday, December 7th (5pm, EST) through Monday, December 9, at http://microcinema.imeem.com.

Microcinema and imeem are also teaming up to offer:
1.    A screening series featuring hard-to-find films and videos, including: Luis Bunuel’s Un Chien Andalou, The Call of Cthulhu, Barnstormers 360, The God Who Wasn’t There, End of Suburbia, Fragile Machine, RELINE, Art Show Down and Patrick Smith’s Liquid Tales.
2.    Full-length streaming access to Microcinema’s extensive ambient media and moving image arts catalog featuring: Rob Tyler’s Color+Modulation, Plasmawindow’s Plasmavironment, Colorcalm By Design, Wallflowers by DetourDVD, HUB Culture’s Antarctica, and Simon King’s African Skies.
3.    Trailers from the entire catalog of Microcinema films.

About Microcinema International
Microcinema International is a leading specialty distributor of the moving image arts. Microcinema International specializes in the acquisition, exhibition, and distribution of independently produced works of an artistic and socially-relevant nature. Microcinema’s mission is to seek out, curate, exhibit, promote, and distribute compelling works to a broad audience via existing and emerging mediums. Through Microcinema’s own DVD label Blackchair Collection and Microcinema International DVD, a unique and diverse catalogue of international DVD titles are distributed into retail, wholesale, online, and institutional sales channels worldwide.

Press Contact
Joel Bachar

About imeem
imeem is the leading social network where users can create, recommend and discover new content and connect directly with people of similar tastes in music, film/video, art, and pop culture. With over 18 million active users, the imeem service offers innovative media expression and interactive discovery features such as custom music playlists, video channels, photo slideshows and blogs. Since the launch of its Web-based community in March 2006, imeem has attracted online fans, artists, bands, directors and content partners from around the world. comScore named imeem the fastest growing social site in the United States in September 2007. To learn more about imeem, visit http://www.imeem.com.