Website www.fandor.com | ||
Headquarters San Francisco, CA, United States Key people Larry Aidem
Chris Kelly
Dan Aronson
Jonathan Marlow
Albert Reinhardt
David Hudson
Felice Oper Parent Our Film Festival, Inc. | ||
Fandor is an American subscription movie viewing service and social video sharing platform.
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Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company was established in 2010 and officially launched on March 9, 2011 at the South by Southwest festival and conference in Austin, Texas.
Fandor "specializes in independent films, classics, silent films, foreign films, documentaries and shorts". Most of Fandor's more than 6,000 films are outside mainstream channels and are from different cultures, time periods, and genres. The service streams content to home theaters (through devices like Roku), computers, mobile devices and tablets, like Apple Inc.'s iPad.
In September 2013 at the Toronto International Film Festival Fandor announced that the site was launching to audiences in Canada.
Business model
Fandor employs a revenue-sharing business model where a portion of all subscription revenue is paid to the filmmakers and distributors whose content Fandor licenses.
Keyframe
Keyframe is the digital magazine of independent and international film hosted on the Fandor site. It publishes interviews, film criticism, video essays and other scholarly works pertaining to the art of filmmaking.
On May 1, 2012, journalist David Hudson, formerly of GreenCine and Mubi, joined Keyframe as chief correspondent.
History
Fandor was founded in 2010 in San Francisco, California by Dan Aronson, Jonathan Marlow and Albert Reinhardt. Former Facebook chief privacy officer Chris Kelly has been a member of the Fandor board of directors since 2011.
In January 2014, Ted Hope, independent film producer and former director of the San Francisco Film Society, joined Fandor as CEO. In January 2015, Hope departed to run Amazon Studios' original film division and Chris Kelly became interim CEO. In September 2015, Larry Aidem, former Sundance Channel head, joined Fandor as CEO, taking over from Kelly.