Year: 2012

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Truly Free Film

Diary of a Film Start-Up Part 9: Filmmakers Festival Feedback

By Roger Jackson

 

Previously: Time to Go Live!

 

Card-Counting Christians
Just back in Los Angeles after 4 days in Arkansas at the excellent Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. So great to have a deep immersion in indie film, watch back to back movies and hang out with passionate filmmakers. I loved Holy Rollers, the true story of a tight-knit group of  Christians running a very successful operation dedicated to beating casinos at Blackjack. Motivated not just by their multi-million dollar winnings, but by a deep hatred of the rapacious casino industry, this is a superbly executed movie by filmmaker Bryan Storkel.

 

Paper Lion
I was invited to the festival to speak at a workshop on “New Waves of Distribution.” Talked to lots of filmmakers about KinoNation. Universally positive feedback. Everyone just wants their films watched, and make a little cash back. Hopefully we can revolutionize the process. So

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Issues and Actions The Next Good Idea

Give Your Team TIME OFF FOR VOTING

How is this for a policy?

In the event that an employee does not have sufficient time outside of working hours to vote in a state or nationwide election,

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Truly Free Film

Traditional Marketing vs. Social Media Marketing… and the Results

By Reid Rosefelt

Everything in traditional movie marketing is generated by the marketers: publicity, reviews, posters, trailers and TV spots, websites, ads, and so on. It is a one way / top-down process. The marketers make all this stuff and hope that all or part of it will somehow register in the consciousness of potential moviegoers.

Social media marketing works the complete opposite way.

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Truly Free Film

Me, My Movies, & Some Of My Thoughts

Friends of mine are throwing a little party this evening to welcome me to San Francisco and introduce me around to some folks who can help initiate the vast amount of changes that need to occur to help ambitious & diverse cinema remain a sustainable and impactful art form and enterprise.  

How great is that?  Finding collaborators and supporters to help accomplish all I want at the San Francisco Film Society is the first step towards building solutions.

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These Are Those Things

You Don’t Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows

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These Are Those Things

If You Can Shoot This, You Can Shoot Anything

Before I moved to San Francisco, I had a dirty rumor that it was difficult to shoot in San Francisco. After I moved to this jewel of a city, I saw this short promo.  The proof is in the pudding:

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Bowl Of Noses These Are Those Things

Our Vision Of The Universe Is A Time Machine

Time travel is go.  When we look into Extreme Deep Field aka Space we see the past.  We photograph the past. We approach the past.  It is time travel.

When you look into space, when technology renders it real for us, when we capture the images, our imagination soars.  Without art, we’d have less science.  Without science, we’d have less art.  Peanut butter & jelly.  Blucheese and fresh figs.