Day: October 14, 2012

Categories
Truly Free Film

Who Do You Wish Tweeted?

On Demand Weekly just published a Twitter Top 100 for the VOD space.   Guess who made it? 🙂  Yup.

It’s a good list and even someone (like me) who follows a lot of folks is sure to find some more folks to follow.

I must confess though my fav part was “People We Wish Tweeted”.  On Demand Weekly had listed:
Eamonn Bowles
Bob & Harvey Weinstein
Tom Bernard, Michael Barker and Marcie Bloom
Melanie Miller
Ted Sarandos
Jeff Bezos

Definitely, on all fronts.  I’d add:

James Schamus

I have more but not in the same category.

Categories
These Are Those Things

First The Feature (Script), Then The Short

We hosted Anna Boden as an Artist In Residence at The San Francisco Film Society recently.  I found it interesting to hear her say she and Ryan Fleck had been inspired by Peter Sollet’s RAISING VICTOR VARGAS and the prize-winning short that preceded it 5 FEET HIGH & RISING.  They had written the HALF NELSON script and in trying to figure out how to do a short that could help get the feature made they decided to shift the focus away from the focus on the teacher (later played by Ryan Gosling in the feature) and put in on Shareeka Epps the student (and who stars in each the short and feature).  This is the short  GOWANUS BROOKLYN that helped get the feature HALF NELSON shot.