We’re really excited to announce a great new partnership with The Auteurs (theauteurs.com). If you’ve never heard of them, The Auteurs is a social web app that gives you the ability to watch a curated set of amazing films online (in incredibly high quality), discover films you may never have known about, and discuss film with other like-minded people. They have partnerships with the The Criterion Collection, Celluloid Dreams, Costa Films, and Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Foundation to digitize and disseminate important world cinema on the Internet.
As part of our collaboration, we’ve ditched our Browse Films page (for which we got more than a couple of suggestions for improvement), and replaced it with the more comprehensive film listing at The Auteurs. Additionally, while browsing The Auteurs you can now shortlist films directly on tiffr by using the Add to Schedule button underneath each film playing at TIFF09, or by using the bookmarklet, just as you would on the official TIFF site.
We’re really excited about the possibilities that this partnership brings and hope you love The Auteurs as much as we do!
Check out our accounts at The Auteurs and create your own!
Mina: http://www.theauteurs.com/users/57148
Ryan: http://www.theauteurs.com/users/78520
More new features!
We’re still listening to your feature requests and suggestions and we’ve recently added a few small features that we know you’ll love. Check it out.
- A lot of people were asking for the film title on the Planner to bring you to the film details page so you could refresh your memory on the film, which is now how it works.
- There were a few requests to be able to compare your schedule to someone else’s. We’ve made it so that when you’re logged in and looking at someone else’s schedule, any screenings you have in common are clearly indicated with an “Attending” badge.
- To make it easier to discover new users, we’ve replaced the boring Highest Ranked list on the homepage with a Recently Updated list that shows users who’ve made fresh changes to their shortlists and schedules.
- We’ve connected our homepage to the tiffr Flickr group and are asking filmmakers to submit stills from their films to be featured on our homepage. It’s not limited to filmmakers of course, anyone with great TIFF shots from this year or previous years should post them to our group to add them to the rotation of images on the homepage. We’ve got a great start, but we’re always looking for more!
We’re not stopping here, there are still a bunch of great features we’ve got planned to help save you time and keep you organized for TIFF.
Stick around.