Filmmaker Paul Devlin has been spending time sharing his experiences with his most recent project BLAST!. I mentioned his article on festival strategy and I had a chance to also catch up with his article on ArtistShare, an alternative funding model that he experimented with on the project.
The concept behind ArtistShare actually started with musicians. […]

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I have to thank Mitchell Block for his remarks on my post of Peter Broderick’s indieWIRE article. It prompted me to look at the discussion/reaction to the article on other blogs (I’m behind on my feed reader!). Karina wonders what’s new with what he is saying - probably not much, but for filmmakers who are […]

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I haven’t yet seen the film, but it seems unanimous that Manufactured Landscapes by Jennifer Baichwal is a stunning film and an apt companion to Davis Guggenheim’s An Inconvenient Truth in illuminating our impact on the Earth. Bright Lights Film Journal has a great interview with the director and Canadian photograph Edward Burtynsky, whose artwork […]

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Shira Golding at MediaRights wrote a great piece on the state of fair use, Use It or Lose It: An Update from the Frontlines of the Fair Use Movement.
“When Arts Engine Executive Director Katy Chevigny participated in a 2004 meeting about fair use she had no idea that three years later she would be speaking […]

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Pretty sobering reminder of media consolidation via NY Times. “In the fall of 2003, a piece of Rupert Murdoch’s sprawling media empire was in jeopardy.Congress was on the verge of limiting any company from owning local television stations that reached more than 35 percent of American homes. Mr. Murdoch’s Fox stations reached nearly 39 percent, […]

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