Whenever I walk into a grocery store, I can’t help but wonder if people really want so many choices. But does the same applies to tomato sauce or frozen waffles also apply to art, literature, music, and movies? Sure Pandora can source new music for me based on my prior expressed preferences, but music also works as a background pleasure. The same is hard to say for movies. And man, do we sure have a lot of great stuff readily available to us. What are we going to do to filter and search through all our choices?
Month: July 2010
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SUPER Comic Con Mega Dose
If you didn’t make it to the panel in San Diego, have no fear; most of it is up on line now. Wow. What a rush to read and watch all of this. Hopefully some distributors will take notice.
First the panel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ntf2UPn6Dc
Now the press (courtesy of the good folks at 42 West):
Today’s guest post is from filmmaker Chris Ohlson. Chris produced one of the indie films that I truly enjoyed last year, THE OVERBROOK BROTHERS. Check it out; you won’t be disappointed. He’s making the move into directing now.
I was recently invited to the IFP Narrative Filmmaker Labs with my directorial feature film debut Melvin. (the IFP Labs workshop and mentor 10 narrative works-in-progress that showcase ‘creative promise and vision’) To be able to participate in the Labs was a truly humbling and altogether amazing experience – and I have much to share.
But first, some quick and fast back-story. I’ve been a working producer and production manager surviving by doing commercials, web series and music videos. In recent years, I have acted as some variation of a producer on films like The Overbrook Brothers, Lovers of Hate and The Happy Poet. So that’s what I do, but not necessarily who I am. I am a filmmaker.
Back to the Labs. Early in the week Scott Macaulay (Editor of Filmmaker Magazine and producer of Gummo and Raising Victor Vargas, among many others) said something that brought the Labs to life for me. “As a producer,” he said, “I try to learn from my mistakes and I try to never make that particular mistake again on the next film, or the one after that.”
Simple enough, right? But I was thunderstruck.
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Because YOU Demanded It!
And since one good turn deserves another, please vote for indie, please vote for F’n AwesomeNESS, please vote for SUPER as the film from ComicCon you most want to see. Vote here: http://www.imdb.com/poll/
Today’s guest post is from Elizabeth Strickler, informing us of what is going over at InMediaRes this week (and a wee bit of cross promotional activity).
In Media Res is dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship. Each weekday, a different participant curates a short (less than 3-minute) video clip accompanied by a 300-350-word impressionistic response. We use the title “curator” because, like a curator in a museum, the participant repurposes a media object that already exists and provides context through their commentary. Theme weeks are designed to generate a networked conversation between curators and the public around a particular topic.
For the week of July 26-30th, the theme is “Transmedia Now”. The curators are: Christy Dena, Marc Ruppel, Robert Pratten, Brian Newman, and Ted Hope.
The NY Times Sunday Magazine has a thought provoking article by Jeffrey Rosen entitled “The Web Means The End Of Forgetting”. It’s filled with lots of good points quite relevant to the film biz in this time of audience aggregation and automized taste curation.
Rosen points out:
The truth is we can’t possibly control what others say or know or think about us in a world of Facebook and Google, nor can we realistically demand that others give us the deference and respect to which we think we’re entitled. On the Internet, it turns out, we’re not entitled to demand any particular respect at all, and if others don’t have the empathy necessary to forgive our missteps, or the attention spans necessary to judge us in context, there’s nothing we can do about it.
well, sort of. But here’s a chance at some real collaborative filmmaking! Direct alongside Joe Berlinger, Marianna Palka, Peter Sollett, Caleb Deschanel, So Yong Kim, and Brad and Todd Barnes.
Check this out!
