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Head Trauma at the Museum of the Moving Image

Posted Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Lance Weiler is bringing his film Head Trauma to the Museum of the Moving Image in New York this Saturday in a multimedia performance that I’m sure will be worth checking out. I’ll be back in London this weekend to start preparations for BRITDOC so I’ll miss it unfortunately. Here’s the blurb: In this innovative and playfully unsettling interactive multimedia event, the story of a drifter who returns to his grandmother’s abandoned house is brought to life in a collision

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DIY Distribution Tips

Posted Monday, July 2nd, 2007

I mentioned Lance Weiler’s Workbook Project in an earlier post but I forgot to put a link to this article from the Winter 2007 edition of Filmmaker Magazine. It has lots of tips from Weiler on setting up websites, syndicating content, increasing your Google rating and links to some useful sites you may not already know about. It’s an inspiring article because as Weiler says: “In the end, there is no one right way to distribute or market your film.

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The Workbook Project

Posted Friday, June 8th, 2007

If you haven’t checked out Lance Weiler’s Workbook Project yet then go there now because it is fast becoming an invaluable toolbox for indie filmmakers. The Workbook Project describes itself as “a social open source experiment for content creators” and Wired Magazine have called Weiler “One of twenty-five people helping to re-invent entertainment and change the face of Hollywood.” Here’s more about it from the site: Our goal is to create a free resource for content creators that will become

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