It’s interesting how people can go on considering something a “character flaw” or a “weakness” for years, and that something as simple as a single sentence can turn that all on it’s head.
Perhaps it’s more to do with double standards - that something I struggle with myself; something I would label or consider a flaw, [...]
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Character Flaws
There’s more than one kind of free
I just finished watching a really inspiring video, twittered by Zak Forsman, of Nina Paley at the Phily DIY Days meet-up, that I mentioned recently, presenting the revenue results for her Creative Commons free-distribution approach. Yep, that’s right, she has made money by giving her film away for free.
My favorite part of her presentation was [...]
DIY
A friend and follower of Pedal sent Amanda and I a link to an upcoming Film Independent workshop. The focus is DIY film distribution, and it’s speaker is Jon Reiss, the author of an upcoming book called the DIY Bible.
At first glance, the program sounded really interesting to attend - it pushes hard the [...]
Update from Ypsi HQs
I’m sitting by the open window right now, enjoying the smell that comes after a mid-west thunder storm, and an iTunes playlist from Jon. It’s almost been 10 days since my last post, so I thought I’d better check in and give everyone an update on what I’ve been busy with.
FToM: First on the [...]
Re: Managing Expectations on the Festival Circuit
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MIKE AMBS moved to Los Angeles in February 2004, from the small town in south eastern Michigan where he grew up. He is a certified graphic designer and a naturally talented editor, with a truly unique ability to capture life through [...]
2nd Year in a row!
The results for Babelgum’s 2nd annual film festival were posted two days ago, and we were very excited to find that (for the second year in a row) we are finalist! The first year the contest wasn’t very competitive - it felt like, I think, a lot of filmmakers hadn’t yet heard of it. But [...]