Noted. Link dump.

Focus Features has created a pretty cool web site and nascent film community at Film in Focus.

Thunderant is the creation of Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen from SNL, where they’re showcasing their comedic shorts/sketches. Kinda “SNL digital shorts” but hipper and smarter (and funnier, except for the Narnia thing).

Trailer for Aaron Rose’s Beautiful Losers, a doc about ’90s DIY/Punk artists including Harmony Korine, Shepard Fairey, Geoff McFetridge and many others. The site gives a Spring ‘08 release date.

Never heard of it before, but Sellaband is partnering with Amazon to distribute music from bands on the service. What is Sellaband?

Sellaband is something like a crowdsourced A&R firm, in which fans decide which new acts get albums produced. In order for Sellaband to “sign” an artist, the artist must first raise $50,000, generally by scoring $10 investments from 5,000 fans (or “believers,” as the site calls them). Once that happens, Sellaband helps the artist professionally produce an album and sells it via the site. Believers automatically get a limited edition CD of the band they sponsored and get a cut of the album sales.