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Make A World Class Innovative Museum On The Storytelling Arts Happen

Imagine this: one of our greatest artists, foremost innovators, top storytellers of all time, incredible businessmen, and rare facilitators of change decides to join the ranks of Bill Gates and leap deep into philanthropy.  Let’s just say that for one of his initial steps he decides to provide a public museum, one that will focus on particular aspects of popular forms that have been neglected everywhere else but are profoundly popular and inspiring.  For good measure, he decides to gift it on a region that he has historically served despite extreme pressures to follow the herd and abandon his flock for a place to the south.  You’d think his town would rejoice, right?  Done deal, for sure, right?  Front page news? Not so.  Go figure.  George Lucas needs our help.

He’s given to us, let’s give to him.  I mean, he has

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Discovering Great Movies Just Got A Whole Lot Easier

Admit it: these are overwhelming times we live in.  Supposedly over 50,000 feature films are generated on a global basis each year.  In America we manage to consume about 1% of the year’s supply — and that makes up the top consumption market for films worldwide.  Good movies just don’t get seen.  People find it hard to connect with the films that may suit them best.  So what can we do about it?  Well…

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Creating Value in Free Film

by ornana films

Over three years ago we started having conversations delving into the story that ended up on screen at South by Southwest in March and is now on Vimeo in full, for free. Between those points, we spent thousands of hours working through this story to turn it in to a film. However, I think the more interesting part is not what we did, but what we didn’t do.

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Simple Fixes: Lock Your Hashtag Early

Filmmakers should supply Film Festivals with their film’s hashtag at the time of application to the festival and then stick with it.  Which of course means filmmakers should select a hashtag early and not deviate from that hashtag.

Which brings up the question of

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Brainstorming A Good Idea With A Couple Of Chums

” in 1978, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and the screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan worked through an idea…”

If you weren’t in the room, here’s your chance to read how it was done.

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It Was Inevitable I Would Take A Hiatus From Producing Projects

I was forwarded this clip of me yesterday;  I am quite confident is from before I was offered the job to become the Executive Director of the San Francisco Film Society.  In it, I am clearly frustrated with the state of the film industry, where I felt I (and my contemporaries) were being rewarded for quantity over quality.  No wonder I accepted the job when it was offered; I had already

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What Is That Sense Of Place You Loved Back Then?

Remember those places you loved? The ones you wanted to return to some day? What did they have in common? What were the details they shared? Are any of those aspects around you now? Forget about the tourist sites, but what are the favorite places you’ve been to?

1) I miss my treehouse only 12 ft off the ground but there I was king and had escaped from it all (even if it had yet to begin).
2)We had a pine grove behind where I grew up where the trees were tall and straight and all in a line and