[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="192" caption="Questar President Albert Nader"][/caption] America’s largest provider of video content is offering travel adventure documentary filmmakers a money-making opportunity by shooting new footage—or providing old footage already in the can—for the company’s innovative new web site. “We are entering a brave new era,” said Albert Nader, president of the Chicago-based Questar, as he announced the opening of the first all-streaming travel video web site—VideoVisits.com—in January 2009, featuring footage from professional travel cinematographer among its other travel attractions. Speaking to members of the Travel Adventure Cinema Society gathered at their annual film festival and convention in Albuquerque in September, he said, “VideoVisits.com will be the first web site that provides visitors thousands of hours of quality, video-streaming destinations worldwide that can be downloaded, or purchased online.” The site is ready to serve millions of viewers and travel-conscious visitors with content that can be “downloaded, webcasted, podcast, and even made accessible to cell phones,” he said, adding, “thousands of travel segments will often feature voiceover or on-camera narration by well-known travel experts…” Questar has distributed approximately 100 million VHS and DVD units through 20,000 retail outlets, such as Costco, Wal-Mart, Barnes & Noble, and Borders, and direct marketing to 15,000 public libraries. Its programs have been featured on Discovery Networks, A&E Networks and PBS. Nader said that since he met the TRACS group in Washington, D.C., 22 years ago, a handful of members have earned a total of more than $3 million dollars in royalties from content. They include Dennis Burkhart, Dale Johnson, Mary Liz and Joe Adair. “VideoVisits.com’s distinguished content providers will include Doug Jones, cruising expert and national parks cinematographer Dennis Burkhart,” Nader said. Link: VideoVisits.com