If filmmakers selected the “KeyWords” for their films (and did it without overhyping their films in the process), they could be embedded in the film’s metadata from the earliest online post.
Keywords are important when
Category: Issues and Actions
The creation and distribution of content must have equal access for all.
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
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
Whether it is the need to have a sustainable and ambitious and diverse film culture or solving breast cancer, the solution is the same. The way we think about charity is dead wrong.
This video is a much watch for any one who believes not for profits can make the world a better place, and yet has always wondered why we can’t move further forward faster.
That lack of gender equality in the film business has been clear for so long. A lot has been written about it, and a lot more shall. Like so much, it is a problem for everyone, not just whom it effects most. It is all one world after all.
For a long time, white people did not accept that
The San Francisco International film Festival has been chosen as an Academy-Award qualifying festival in the Documentary Short Subject category. Now we have three shorts categories as Academy Award qualifiers – Narrative, Doc and Animation.
Short documentaries of
Let’s say you are one of the biggest corporations in the universe, and you own the most successful company in a particular sector, and they in turn own one of the most popular purveyors of a particular type of product; and, well, in some ways there is no denying that each of you are revolutionary. Between the three of you, you have provided an unprecedented structure that allows anyone to reach virtually everyone at what appears — on first blush — to be no cost, or at least very little. On top of that, you give people a way to actually make a few cents on what they love doing anyway (pennies for your passion, pennies for your passion — we don’t even need a rallying cry in this world of win win). Does this alleviate the need to work ethically or even just the need to do the right thing?
Not sure what I am writing about? Well…. If you haven’t yet read or heard about the contracts that Machinima, Maker Studios, and other YouTube partners have evidently demanded their makers sign, you might want to.
But be warned this knowledge may cause harmful
