I wasn’t able to attend the Shooting People/BAFTA Short Sighted event in London earlier this month due to the very inconvenient fact that I was in New York! But all the feedback has been excellent and it sounds like filmmakers really benefited from the day’s panels and case studies. I particularly like this comment: “The event was motivating due to the knowledge of panel members as well as the clever filmmakers attending. Shooting People is ‘as yellow as the generosity…

I discovered the Whole Earth Catalog when I was at college and working in a small independent bookstore in Brighton in the UK. The catalog was originally published in 1968 and contained a wealth of information from books to tools to classes and beyond. It had a joyful DIY, countercultural feel and every page contained huge amounts of amazing ideas. I discovered Buckminster Fuller through Whole Earth and immersed myself in his ideas about “whole systems.” Whole Earth had a…

So here it is! The newest member of our blog family. This is where we will blog about all the cool new stuff happening on the web and beyond that will be useful to you as filmmakers. We want to tell you about tech wunderkind filmmakers like Lance Weiler who is spreading the knowledge so brilliantly with his Workbook Project. And talk about innovators like Matt Hanson with Swarm of Angels, M dot Strange with We Are the Strange, and…

Interesting post I just stumbled upon (and I mean this literally, I wasn’t using StumpleUpon!) on Chris Anderson’s Long Tail blog. He has posted an email he received from a filmmaker who is finding it very difficult to make a living in long tail land and who argues that it benefits big companies and consumers but that small producers are still struggling to survive: Your Long Tail theory is a basic and profound truth that I happily embrace AS A…

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.…

I was having a browse on the always interesting London-based bigshinything website and rediscovered this video about Web 2.0 – I know it’s been around for a while and the music is just a tad irritating but it’s a nifty little examination of what is happening online. Bigshinything also have a post which talks about a possible MySpace/Facebook class divide that is very interesting although the whole “hegemonic/subaltern” vocabulary is bringing back my academia-rash! The issue of how divisions and…