We hope you are moved by our content; be it to laugh or cry or maybe be educated of a slice of life you may never have even considered. In March, 2008, Branden Blinn’s 2001 short film “CONFIDENCES” was picked up for distribution by Hollywood Independents and included in their short film compilation titled “STR8 MEN AND THE MEN WHO LOVE THEM II.” As Str8 Men neared release, Hollywood Independent’s
founder Jorge Ameer found himself short ten minutes of screen time and approached Branden Blinn to see if he had anything else that would be appropriate to round out the compilation. Ameer, which eventually precipitated the short film “THIRTEEN or so MINUTES…”
“THIRTEEN or so MINUTES…” graced the cover of “STR8 MEN AND THE MEN WHO LOVE THEM II” and turned out to be the most highly received, reviewed and regarded short within the compilation. It also went on to screen in over twenty-five film festivals around the world, including Los Angeles, Miami, Palm Springs, Austin, Seattle, Honolulu, San Francisco—where it was part of FRAMELINE 33’s coveted FUN IN BOYS’ SHORTS program—as well as Montreal and Toronto, Canada; Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch New Zealand; Luton, England; Germany; and Melbourne, Australia. It has also won three best short film awards and saw both of its stars nominated for best actor (MethodFest, 2009). A small clip of it, posted on YouTube, garnered over 50,000 hits, and remained one of the highest-rated clips on JR’s popular film blog before it was dismantled for content reasons. Within just a few months of the release of “STR8 MEN AND THE MEN WHO LOVE THEM II,” copies of “THIRTEEN or so MINUTES…” could be seen across the internet and viewers around the globe of a large variety of races and sexual orientation started commenting on it wanting to know where they could see the film. It prompted us to look closely at the potential market of our types of films and we realized that Alfred Kinsey’s research, done decades ago in the United States, still seemed accurate today; i.e. that on a scale of zero to six, with zero representing exclusively heterosexual people and six representing exclusively homosexual individuals, exclusively heterosexual people (the zeros) populated a mere ten percent of the population, and exclusively homosexual individuals (the sixes) representing another ten percent of the population, leaving a whopping eighty percent somewhere in between. It is this whopping eighty percent that is the market tbbmg on demand aims to deliver content to – that 80% of the population, along with some exclusively heterosexual women who are simply fascinated by “the male/male dynamic and lifestyle.”
But it is not just this group alone that we are targeting. We also hope to find deliver high quality content that hits not only our target market but people of all proclivities who are looking for intelligent films that are character and “actor” driven, that eschew stereotypes and show us our humanity; taking the edge off our fear, reminding us of just how very fragile, debilitating, uplifting, comical, exhilarating and forthright life really is. We hope you are moved by our content; be it to laugh or cry or maybe be educated of a slice of life you may never have even considered and that you generously and graciously support us in our efforts and endeavors to support you.
