A few months ago, the New Breed contributors ran a discussion about our expectations for film festivals. I put myself on record as being somewhat ambivalent about the whole idea — about whether fests can attract the right audiences for each film, about whether filmmakers can get decent exhibition and screening times, and about [...]
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Filmmaker Archive for: Stephanie Argy
Creative Collaboration: What We’ve Learned
When I heard that the next topic of discussion for the New Breed group was going to be collaboration, I sat down with my co-writer/co-director, Alec Boehm, and we sketched out some of the thoughts that we’ve had about it, both when doing our own projects, and when working with other people on theirs. [...]
Re: Censorship
I’ve never actually had any direct experience with censorship as a filmmaker. With our short Gandhi at the Bat, we were initially afraid that we’d run into trouble for portraying a figure as revered as Mohandas K. Gandhi, and we did encounter a few people who were very ready to be furious with us [...]
RE: Managing Expectations on the Festival Circuit
I’m very ambivalent about festivals — we’ve been to a lot with short films and had some really great experiences, but now that we’re about to take our feature THE RED MACHINE out into the world, we see festivals as only one small element of our overall release and marketing strategy.
I think part of the [...]