Arts Alliance Film Network
The Arts Alliance Film Network (AAFN) is a secure digital network to transport films, trailers and promos between producers, sales agents, distributors, festivals and exhibitors. The AAFN enables producers, sales agents and film institutes to increase sales opportunities and streamline administration while facilitating timely access to a wider range of films for distributors, exhibitors and film festivals. Arts Alliance Labs provided technology leadership and execution over the Research, Architectural, Product Design, Engineering, and Operational aspects of the AAFN.
Digital Screen Network
The Digital Screen Network (DSN) is a national system in the United Kingdom of 240 cinema screens funded by the UK Film Council.
Arts Alliance Labs, Inc. (AALabs) provided the technology leadership and execution over the Research, Architectural, Product Design, Engineering, and Operational aspects of the Digital Screen Network.
Together with Arts Alliance Media, Ltd. AALabs formed Arts Alliance Digital Cinema (AADC) who are supplying, integrating and installing the digital cinema equipment while providing training and ongoing service and support to all the cinemas in the DSN.
The technology used in the DSN is a framework for the secure distribution of feature films and commercial programming to be stored, transported, and projected digitally. The components we designed and built for this framework advance the technologies available to protect cinema from piracy.
These products not only make distribution and exhibition more secure, but also bring about a greater accessibility to distribution for more specialized and independent forms of cinema by helping to circumvent the expensive and time consuming creation of celluloid film prints and its associated overhead.
With the DSN, the profitability of independent cinema also increases due to the lowered cost of distribution, and the decreased risk of piracy results in a larger profit margin for the distributor. This simultaneous rise in profits and increased security will leverage independent cinema in the commercial arena as a more viable private enterprise.
LOVEFiLM.com
Our first project was the customer profile server for the DVD rental company, LOVEFiLM.com. We built this technology for LOVEFiLM.com to enable their customers to develop personal profiles of themselves on their website. Those profiles are based on the ratings that each customer gives the products that your business markets on the website and are used to recommend other products on the website. The technology becomes an automated word of mouth recommendation engine, as each customer receives suggestions based upon the ratings of other users of the site with similar tastes to their own, all resulting in more loyal, engaged, and profitable customers.
When you employ our technology, every one of your costumers builds a personalized retail store for themselves based on their interaction with your business' website. Each customer actualizes their own personal preferences, exercising their own personal identity within your retail environment. The consumer experience and our technology work together synergistically to allow the user the ability to shape their own individual marketplace.
HillaryClinton.com
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign for her second term as Senator of New York will be one of the most closely watched campaigns in 2006. The high profile of the campaign and the large population of her state require the full engagement of her voters, volunteers, and campaign staff. Her BenTen-based campaign website was launched in July of 2005, maximizing the effectiveness of her volunteer base and enabling voters to stay abreast of the status of her campaign and legislative work. As her campaign progresses, the demands of Hillary Clinton’s web-based campaign will be met by the comprehensive framework of online applications included in the BenTen platform.
CorzineForGovernor.com
Senator Jon Corzine’s (D, NJ) successful race for Governor of New Jersey speaks to the broad area applications for BenTen. Corzine’s campaign was not national, but the ‘Grass Roots’ web organizing that BenTen offers helped in a very tight race.
JohnKerry.com
After John Kerry secured the Democratic nomination, his campaign needed to expand his online campaign for what was to become the most expensive presidential race in US history. His existing online systems needed to be equipped with all the tools of a nationwide campaign while meeting the demands of millions of users. We built a volunteer center, which allowed voters to participate in the global community and act locally: Voter Contact, Media Contact, Voter Registration, Event Planning, Individual User Pages, Travel Coordination, and more. Campaign volunteers and staff were equipped with Member and Content Management tools and all of this was delivered in a single website using our software package, BenTen. Though the John Kerry Volunteer Center was BenTen’s first application, its capacity to be the access point for an entire constituency and the management portal for campaign leadership was recognized by high profile campaigns and organizations across the country.