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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grants For Science on Screen
This is a great example of how, through the Art House Convergence, independent theaters are sharing information and best practices. Science on Screen is one of the Coolidge Theater’s longest-running and most popular programs, and they now have the opportunity to help other independent theaters introduce it to their audiences. The Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, Mass. is teaming up with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to bring the Coolidge’s Science on Screen program to other independent theaters nationwide. Launched in 2005, Science on Screen educates about science while entertaining through movies, providing audiences with enlightenme...
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We Were Here at Sundance
An Interview with David WeissmanSundance official 'Meet the Fillmmaker' WE WERE HERE is a powerful new documentary that takes a deep and reflective look back at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco in 1981 and at a community that came together to respond to the crisis with love, compassion, and determination. It screens at the Broadway Centre Cinemas V in Salt Lake City at 3:45pm on Sunday, Jan. 23 as part of the Sundance Film Festival, where it will show five additonal times in Park City as part of the Documentary Competition.This is a film which reaches out and touches the audience without any banging on the drum. It leaves pe...
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The Art House Convergence Conference
The Art House Convergence: January 17-20, 2011 is having its fourth annual meeting in Utah where Art house theater owners will converge to discuss the issues and new developments which concern their specialty niche in the independent film business. Chairman of the two year old event, Russ Collins, Executive Director of the Michigan Theater, (collins AT Michtheater.org, +1 (734) 646-0528 spoke to me at length about these concerns. Other theater owner friends have discussed the issue of staying solvent in a small universe when they must fight to wrest away the "larger" art house films from cineplexes which are increasingly adding 1 or 2 venues...
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Section 181 The "Runaway" Production Incentive Offers Free Seminar during Sundance
There is one U.S. federal tax incentive to encourage investment in film production, and it was reinstated in the new tax bill that just passed Congress. Section 181 allows produces to immediately deduct the qualifying expenditures in the year they occur for the first $15 million to $20 million spent. So what does that mean for you?To learn more about Section 181 and the great benefits to independent filmmakers, a free seminar at Sundance is being offered for free. Thanks to the generosity of their sponsors, law offices Deutsch, Levy & Engel, Chartered's Corky Kessler invites you to the panel seminar during Sundance on January 24th from 2pm ...
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News from The Film Collaborative about Sundance
Happy New Year from The Film Collaborative!The Film Collaborative has already been guiding 3 feature filmmakers and are also going to assist a short and probably add a 4th of 5th feature. Sundance filmmakers benefit from our distributiion education because we're helping them navigate distribution and avoid the pitfalls of excessive middlemen or not-so-ideal companies who are pursuing them. We're helping them choose wisely and sometimes also directly representing their films on the sales side. And of course we educate and guide them on the DIY side. It's still early in the process to see exactly how much we'll end up doing per film (in terms o...
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Navajo Nation and a New Sort of Giving - DVD Distribution
Making a difference in society calls for more tools than you can find in a documentary film. It calls for vision and creative activism involving marketing, educating and partnering with real people from different walks of life. That's how to build a groundswell.I am not going to start a series here on DVD distribution benefitting the worthy causes of the subjects of films, but coming on the heels of The Creative Coalition's endeavors, this distributor to the non-theatrical community came my way, and in the interest of a good cause, I am posting it here on the heels of Poliwood and TCC. Both these postings are good case studies for others and...
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Social Networking Seminar November 16
Co-presented with Social Network Live Social Networking Seminar for The Film Community: Filmmakers, Actors, Writers, Agents, Studio Executives on LinkedIn Events and thought you might be interested in going!
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Rotterdam Film Festival's Trainee Project for Young Film Critics
The 40th International Film Festival Rotterdam, January 26 – February 6, 2011 is the best place to meet the players in international coproduction. Rotterdam Film Festival is the most egalitarian and well organized, intimate and yet major film festival on the circuit. Even though it is the largest ...
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A Top Ten List I Like
As a blogger we can make our own rules. We can quote others. We can post pictures. We can make top 10 lists. But blogging is not easy to keep up with or to keep new and exciting because so much new and exciting things are going on and you begin to think you have to cover them all and you cannot ...
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Brands in the Fire
A Blog on BrandsBrands as we knew them as children were burnt on cattle.The word brand began simply as a way to tell one person's cattle from another by means of a hot iron stamp. A legally protected brand name is called a trademark. The word brand has continued to evolve to encompass identity - it ...
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