Festivals (and support organizations) should organize a nationwide network of year round couch surfing / bed & breakfast local supporters to build a national support structure for the touring film makers.
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Where are the champions? And I am not talking about the victors, but the amplifiers. It is so hard for good work to get noticed. Even if you get into a major festival it is easy to get ignored. And what about all the good work that doesn’t even make the festival cut? Do you really have to buy your way into a New York opening, so that the NY Times covers you, so you get a review, so that you may get bookings everywhere?
Don’t working directors have time to watch new movies?
Celebrities have the most influence on Twitter. Twitter is a great way to further word-of-mouth. Twitter particularly is good to further engagement with something that is immediately accessible, like a television show.
It has been shown time and time again the impact a few celebrities can have when they support a film.
Many movie stars got their start in indie film. Many movie starts did their best work in indie film.
Indie film is under threat. It is no longer a
This digital age requires us to be specific. We need to identify things so we can find things. We can not just leave things alone and expect that they will be discovered.
I get frustrated when I find a good website or article and I am limited on how I can share it. One of the reasons I like Pinterest so much is that it is so easy to use and share. Yet many sites and articles don’t include “pinable” images that drive the viewer back to the page itself, so you can pin them, or if you can, it is not an automatic link. Heck, I know that I am guilty of such slack; I rarely include images on my posts, which makes them difficult to share. And even when I do, I forget to put in a custom URL so that it drives the Pinterest viewer back to the post.
Yet, I am grateful for this slack of mine, for it exposes a bigger problem that we all face. The same problem — I mean, opportunity — is
