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- Brian Newman builds your audience
The fabulous Brian Newman will be presenting a panel on audience building at DCTV on Monday, February 22 at 7:30PM. As this falls just a couple weeks before my own audience engagement panel at SXSW, I will totally be mining Brian’s mind for great ideas- and it’s sure to be a fun event… [more]
- Play/Pause Ted Hope
Ted Hope interviewed for the new documentary Press/Pause/Play. Hope may be the most important voice right now in the emerging film–>next world, not only because he has had success with the old model but because he has an intuitive understanding of how technology, creativity and communication with the audience intersect. And he is still making movies… [more]
- Free Culture, Free
You can watch the Free Culture X conference here live. The Twitter tag for the event is #fcx… [more]
- Making your Media Matter, eventually
Unfortunately, Making Your Media Matter 2010 has been postponed due to Snomageddon or whatever you prefer to call the massive storms of late in DC. For the wait, here’s an interview from NPR’s On the Media with MYMM organizer and Center for Social Media director Pat Aufderheide
- Crowd Control at SXSW
I’m super excited about my upcoming panel at South by Southwest- THE MAIN EVENT: Finding an Audience for Your Film on Sunday the 14th. This will not be your typical distro panel with a bunch of talking heads bemoaning the lack of money in the digital market. NO! Instead we’ll be sharing with filmmakers and enterprising folks some of the new (and tried-and-true) tools that can get people out to your movie.
The essential theory for me is that any event that costs money has to have a way to meet people- “meet” in… [more]
- Festivals! Conferences!
Just flagging some upcoming events I’ll be attending at which I hope to see you and give you one of my new cards.
Making Your Media Matter- DC, February 11-12 “Cutting-edge practices for making your media matter”
Free Culture X- DC, February 13-14 “Free software and open standards, open access scholarship, open educational resources, network neutrality, and university patent policy”
South By Southwest- Austin, March 12-18 (Presenting a panel about event screenings and attracting audiences)
The Conversation NY- March 27 “New business and creative opportunities” in film and media… [more]
- 5>50 – Who gets it in new distribution?
Recently I was honoured to be part of a list made by Brian Newman of 20 media people under the age of 40 whom he felt were leaders. What’s interesting to me is the frequency that I hear people who are young (on the list and otherwise) saying how older people “just don’t get it” and by virtue of their age, they will naturally be left behind in any digital revolution.
Even having crossed the big-3-oh-mark, I can feel a little anecdotal truth to the notion that the youth have a more natural, ingrained facility with technology and… [more]
- Copyright, docs, Lessig, licenses
Recently in The National Republic, Lawrence Lessig addressed the issue of copyright in documentaries and how it is keeping classic films like Eyes on the Prize out of commercial circulation. The problem is that filmmakers must clear copyright for archival elements in their work such as television clips and music, and generally the licenses for these clips is for a limited time period like 10 or 20 years. After that time, the filmmaker would need to clear (i.e. re-license) all of the archivals again in order to sell the work.
For most docs, this can be extremely onerous… [more]
