Dailymotion, the world's largest independent video sharing site, has joined forces with ‘1 Giant Leap: What About Me?’ to host content for the biggest global music jam in history. As well as proving the official player for content on www.whataboutme.tv in high-definition, Dailymotion has produced a bespoke page for the documentary to increase its audience and reach and provide quality content for Dailymotion’
The documentary, also shown on Channel 4, follows two visionary filmmakers Duncan Bridgeman and Jamie Catto as they journey across fifty locations to interview some of the world’s leading actors and great thinkers, as well as some interesting unsung heroes they meet along the way, which they weave with original musical collaborations with stunning imagery. Each week a new episode is uploaded covering universal topics such as God, sex, death and money. Contributors include Billy Connelly, Bob Geldof, Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra, and Susan Sarandon whilst artists such as Michael Stipe, Will Young, Alanis Morissette and K D Lang contribute to create what becomes the musical soundtrack to each theme.
Jamie and Duncan explain, ‘We have collaborated with some amazing thinkers and musicians to produce a poignant, emotional and entertaining time capsule of humanity at its most inspirational. It shows how we are all connected though our creativity and beliefs, but most of all though our madness. Dailymotion offers a high-definition player to showcase our work and take our soul-searching multimedia content to a wider audience.’
Digby Lewis, Creative Director, Dailymotion, adds, ‘This extraordinary documentary takes a collaborative, organic approach to film-making using a DVD camera and a laptop. We can take this to a wide audience at Dailymotion who are interested in independent film-making and independent thought.’
The TV series follows the success of the1 Giant Leap’s first double Grammy nominated film and album ‘What about me?’ which is available on DVD in the UK from 9th June. It has eleven short films each featuring a piece of music and a theme and is being promoted by 19 Entertainment.
Launched in France in 2005, Dailymotion offers a mix of official content from partners such as Channel 4, Turner Broadcasting, Viacom/
About Dailymotion
A top 30 website worldwide (source: Alexa), Dailymotion is the world's largest independent provider of premium user generated and licensed online video entertainment (Source: Alexa and ComScore) with 2billion page views per month. Every day, 15,000 new videos are uploaded into Dailymotion's global network of localised video entertainment sites, where a programming team turns the user generated and licenced content into a high quality, entertainment experience for the 36.6 million monthly unique visitors.
Using the most advanced technology for both users and content creators, Dailymotion provides a high quality video in a fast, easy to use Web site that also automatically filters infringing material using technical finger-printing technology. Dailymotion's mission is to provide the best possible entertainment experience for users and the best business experience for content owners.
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