Lionsgate and Tribeca's video streaming service went official on Sept. 30, taking about a year to launch Tribeca Shortlist (TSL). Going against the typical online streaming nowadays, TSL is designed to offer high-quality movies with curation.
Entertainment companies Lionsgate and Tribeca worked together on the video streaming service to deliver quality rather than quantity, offering just 150 movies at a time with about one-third swapping out on a monthly basis.
Compared to other similar service providers such as Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Netflix and HBO, the collaborating companies hope to offer only excellent films, intentionally ending up with a smaller selection—so that viewers won't have a problem in choosing which movie to watch—and even going as far as including only movies with a 7.3 or higher rating on the movie website IMDb.
TSL offers an extensive collection of indie and also critically acclaimed movies, such as City of God, Chasing Amy, Amélie, Far From Men, Adventureland and Fargo, and even those from smaller films. Not only is the selection great, but the assortment of celebrity-curated movie and interviews of actors are plenty, not to mention that users can get movie recommendations from celebrities and insiders.
"We're taking a more human approach to movie discovery for viewers who want to escape the 'search spiral' and find a great movie fast. We focus on great movies, offering subscribers a high-quality, curated movie catalog and our exclusive 'Shortlist' content, which provides context and personal insight, like getting a recommendation from a trusted friend," Tribeca described on its website.
TSL will also feature Sony Pictures, MGM, Magnolia Pictures and Miramax films, and it plans to eventually feature more when talks with other film distributors are settled.
Currently, TSL is only available on iPad and on the web, and soon enough, it will become available on Roku, Fire TV, and iPhone before the end of 2015. It will also become available on Android and Apple TV in 2016.
Movie fans can avail of this video streaming service for $5 a month until the end of the year, as Tribeca plans to up the price to $6 in 2016.
