Imagine five or maybe ten filmmakers coming to your campus discussing what they did right and what they did wrong. Imagine a couple of seasoned pros joining them and speaking of how they have survived and prospered, what they do to transform their good work into the great. Imagine a handful of tech experts singing the song of innovation, helping us all to recognize the new model. There would be practical workshops, brainstorming sessions, fascinating discussions and of course, the movies, the movies would screen for your quality-starved eyes.
Picture this group of independent thinkers, all joining together in their search for answers and solutions.
Consider the energy that would come from those actively engaged in the creation of ambitious film and the efforts to reboot an apparatus that could support such work. Relish the satisfaction that one would bask in knowing that your community would have a truer firmer handle on the difficulties and the pleasures one encounters in the commitment to creating and delivering film art to audiences.
Now I don't have it planned, or any speakers booked, but we need a wine bottle if we are going to stomp on some grapes (well, okay, not the best metaphor). There are going to be great films going to the festivals this year, with no place to go afterwards. There are great films already made, looking to screen further. The new model is being unearthed but folks need to talk further. We'll need some help pulling it together for sure, but first we need a home with some money to spend.
I just thought it would make some sense to put it out there. Maybe you had some ideas or suggestions.
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Would you be willing to do it in the UK? I'm an American filmmaker in the UK in Brighton, outside London. Very interested....
what about UARTS in Philly where the last DIY Days was held?
http://www.uarts.edu
Not sure if you are looking for an accedemic venue or a private/public one...but, University of Texas at Austin has it's own film thing going on and it's pretty big.
Justa thought.
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I would think any major public American university would be happy to have you and it would probably sell out, especially one near or in a major city. I went to school in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area and you would have a ton of interested students and three major population centers that give generous support to the arts already.
MIT Media Center might be open to that. They are in partnership with the studio that will open in my town. They are also good at archiving their seminars on the web for the future. media.mit.edu.
Put together a lineup of guests, I can help you shop the idea over there.
DMCG
I think alot more colleges would be interested in hosting something like this, especially smaller states like ME or NH.
"Thanks everyone for putting me on your Twitter Lists! Maybe I should build some of my own -- another on the "too much to do" list... whew."
That's something you've said, Ted (I speak as a great admirer). So I guess I'd call you on that. If we have to create communities of filmmakers who are watching each others' work, does the same not go for Twitter? It's all about mutuality?
Why not Wellywood? Peter Jackson's Park Road Post here hosts some wonderful events, and at Victoria University of Wellington we have the Institute of Modern Letters & its postgraduate scriptwriting course—where I've just finished my PhD (see our U.S links here: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/modernletters/about/history.aspx) & a film school, with another film school down the road.
Ted, I just read your tweet re an artist controlled future. Here's how we're going about it, influenced by Sally Potter's barefoot filmmaking manifesto (www.sallypotter.com/node/201) and her structure for "The Gold Diggers" long ago: www.development-the-movie-com. We'd love any feedback.
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