ELEVATE Film Festival Breaks the Internet Barrier With HD Video Streaming Powered by Vusion

The ELEVATE Film Festival, the fastest growing single day film event in the World, today announced that selected films from the event will be available on the Internet using Vusion's HD Video Streaming service. The quality of the Vusion service is so good that portions of the live event will be streamed to a sixty-foot theater screen during the festival. The ELEVATE Film Festival will be held on October 5th, 2008 in the Nokia Theatre -- L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles, California.

"We are experiencing a media and message revolution," said Daryll J. Merchant, executive producer for ELEVATE Film Festival. "The festival brings together a global tribe of professional artists committed to unleashing human potential. The excitement of attending this event is clearly second to the long lasting impact we hope to bring via our movies and new media. And for people who wish to re-experience our films after the event over the Internet, we decided to remove the compromises. Vusion will be delivering our films over the Internet as HD Video Streams to viewers around the globe."

How to Attend the ELEVATE Film Festival: http://www.ELEVATEFilmFestival.com/

"The ELEVATE Film Festival is focused on unique and high quality experiences delivered by the best artists," said Grover Righter, vice president of marketing for Vusion, Inc. "We will complement the in-person experience at the Nokia Theatre by streaming select films over the Internet in full HD quality. Viewers will be able to HD films via our instant-on, full-screen video service over standard broadband connections."

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About ELEVATE Film Festival

Created by production company ELEVATE Films, ELEVATE Film Festival is the fastest growing film festival in the world. Created to challenge the international film community to produce works of social and global importance, ELEVATE is the first film festival to combine a filmmaking competition with a mandate to produce socially conscious films.

About Vusion

Vusion provides an advanced, end-to-end video distribution service that Radically improves the user experience for streaming Internet video. Vusion's customers include content and digital media providers, and content delivery networks who need to offer high-quality and mixed media to large populations of end-users. The Vusion streaming video delivery service is based on cutting-edge technology, including proprietary algorithms, protocols and software. The Vusion unique instant on video service provides an end-user experience that is second to none and enables new Internet business models based on advertising, subscription services, syndication and pay-per-view. More information is available at http://www.vusion.com .

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ELEVATE Film Festival

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