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.
Perhaps you read today’s earlier guest post from Jacques. But did you realize that The Filmmakers’ Alliance fundraising campaign closes today?! I hadn’t, so I hadn’t given until this morning. Jacques explains below some of the great needs that are within our reach to solve: curation, aggregation, & organization. Shall we seize the time?
Independent Film has been challenged of late. Perhaps it has always been challenged….and challenging. And perhaps that is a necessary aspect of the undoubtedly risky nature of Independent Film. But perhaps not. Perhaps those challenges could be alleviated somewhat if education was better integrated with experience, if funding was better integrated with worthy projects, if productions were better integrated with crews and resources, if good films were better integrated with distribution options and if, at the outset, potentially strong films were better integrated with fresh ideas and unique perspectives. I truly believe that can happen on the web with a single site employing a bit of curation, aggregation and organization.
As mentioned earlier here, The Filmmakers’ Alliance in LA were kind enough to bestow upon me their Vision Award on August 19th. As this had only gone to directors before, I was pretty pleased. As it came from true indie filmmakers, I was thrilled. Alan Ball was kind enough to present the award to me.
The Filmmakers Alliance were kind enough to give me their Vision Award last Wednesday in LA at the DGA. They put together a nice tribute reel, cutting in interview segments with the film clips.
What are you doing on August 19th? Are you going to be in LA? Why not help out a worthy cause? Filmmakers Alliance is honoring me and I would love to see you there.
