That inspire, that I like, and that I hope you feel the same about
I have had the pleasure of being a judge for the Disposable Film Festival. Last night they rocked the house at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs, celebrating the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival.
I almost forgot how much I love MALARIA. It’s ambitious. It is risk taking. It is fun. This is that:
We walked under the light and realized that each of us were tattooed with an invisible map that led us directly to each other. We paused and recognized that the din was that song we had been wanting to learn to sing for too long. Looking back we could see that together we
This is how we build a better mousetrap: by supporting the culture we love with our dollars. Consider it a vote for a better world.
You can now get “I AM NOT A HIPSTER” directly from the filmmakers! So you should do it. I mean, what else are you doing this weekend anyway?
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
What did you learn?
RIP George Gund
Your love of cinema & life, your generosity & great spirit were truly infectious. @SF_FilmSociety has lost a great friend.
I did not know George well, but I had had some good times with him, and very much enjoyed encountering him at festivals throughout the world. When he and his wife Iara Lee brought us and other filmmakers down to Brazil to lecture on Low Budget Indie — it was the first time I really felt people got what I wanted to do and cared. That was George. It was such a gift.
Every where George went he communicated his love of cinema. And
This is my Pinterest Board of Short Films I like.
What have I neglected? What would you like to suggest we all watch? What do you think is the best short films of all time?
