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22:57:44 11/22/09
DIY DAYS LA - DIY AND WHY - JON REISS
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The world of discovery and distribution is changing by the moment. DIY and hybrid distribution is becoming the A option for many filmmakers. But how do you find the strategy that?s going to work best for you? How do you reach and engage audiences while achieving a degree of sustainability? Join Jon Reiss, award winning filmmaker and DIY distribution expert as he shares stories from the frontlines, much of which can be applied to those wishing to connect their creative efforts with an audience in meaningfully ways.
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15:44:21 11/22/09
DIY DAYS LA - SOCIAL MEDIA FOR STORYTELLERS - LANCE WEILER
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With the advent of new technologies, devices and the emerging real-time aspects of the web, stories can travel and build audiences in new and exciting ways. The confines of a single format are replaced with the ability to move audiences from one experience to another ? from one screen or device to another. There has been a lot of hype around the concept of social media but what does it really mean for storytellers? How can you use free tools and services to tell stories, engage an audience and most importantly, extend the life of your project? Lance Weiler (The Last Broadcast, Head Trauma, HiM) walks you through the process of getting up and running, understanding how to staff, how to budget, how to engage an audience and how to set realistic goals whilst determining measurements of success.
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19:20:47 09/03/09
DIY DAYS PHL - From Here To Awesome Roundtable
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ROUNDTABLE - FROM HERE TO AWESOME Production has become democratized while digital distribution is quickly becoming commoditized thus fragmenting the marketplace and resulting in little to no revenue. The problems that the independent film industry faces are well documented but where do we go from here? What are the new models of discovery and distribution? How are storytellers going to fund, create, distribute and sustain from their work? ARIN CRUMLEY (Four Eyed Monster, As the Dust Settles) SCOTT MACAULAY (film producer & editor of FILMMAKER MAGAZINE) NOAH HARLAN (film producer & mobile app developer), SCOTT KIRSNER (journalist and author), DON ARGOTT (ROCK SCHOOL)
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06:46:52 08/19/09
DIY DAYS PHL - Brian Newman - Better Than Free
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TALK - BETTER THAN FREE The Internet is a super-distribution machine that allows copies of digital media to flow in an almost frictionless way. As the wealth and survival of traditional media businesses are built on selling precious copies, the free flow of free copies is undermining the established order. If reproductions of media are free, how can we keep on financing films and how can we find value in the media we create and sell? BRIAN NEWMAN (former CEO Tribeca Film Institute) BRIAN NEWMAN Brian Newman is president & CEO of the Tribeca Film Institute, leading innovative programs in support of filmmakers, youth and the public. Brian conceived and launched the Reframe project of TFI, a unique initiative digitizing thousands of films for DVD, streaming, and video on demand. He speaks regularly on new media, audience development and the future of the web, and contributes irregularly to a blog on these subjects at Springboardmedia. www.reframecollection.org
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14:34:03 08/13/09
DIY DAYS PHL - Anita Ondine - New Models of Funding
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NEW MODELS OF FUNDING: BEYOND THE BIG SCREEN As traditional indie film finance dries up, filmmakers are on the lookout for new sources of funding. In a content-saturated market, enabled by new technology and amplified by social media, could extending the story experience hold the answers to a new wave of creative expression? ANITA ONDINE (Seize the Media) shares a number of new funding models for those willing to think beyond the big screen.
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18:43:44 03/05/09
Discovery - FHTA Round Tables
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How do we discover culture today?
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19:05:57 11/09/08
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13:02:15 10/22/08
DIYDAYS Boston - An Investor's Perspective - Todd Dagres
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Todd Dagres has a unique perspective on the funding of film and digital media. As a founder and General Partner of Spark Capital, he’s led Spark’s investments in Veoh Networks, Menara Networks, Verivue, EQAL, Covestor, Tjet, and Intune Networks. Mr. Dagres’ Entertainment and Media endeavors include establishing two film and television production companies (Prospect Pictures and Ealing Studios) that together have produced over 10 films and TV shows since 2003. He has also been involved in the production of several films including Pretty Persuasion (2005 Sundance Film Festival) which was released by Samuel Goldwyn and Sony Pictures Entertainment and TransSiberian (2008 Sundance Film Festival) which was released by First Look Studios. Fireside chat - Todd Dagres, Scott Kirsner, Lance Weiler
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22:41:15 09/12/08
DIY DAYS SF - CROWDSOURCING - panel discussion
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PANEL: The art and science of crowdsourcing There is power in the crowd. When they rise up they can fund, create, distribute and promote. But how do you turn an audience into an active community where members become collaborators? Panelists: Slava Rubin (indieGoGo), Skot Leach (Lost Zombie), Jason Harris (Mekanism), Bryan Kennedy (Mobmov.org), Blair Erickson (Millions of Us) Discussion Leader: Lance Weiler
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18:01:15 09/11/08
DIY DAYS SF - CINEMA AND THE SINGULARITY
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Cinema and the singularity Exponential growth of technology has brought on a paradigm shift in the nature of cinema that has yet to be fully understood. How can we anticipate changes in the coming years, and what can media artists do to take an active role in innovation that shapes the art and business of storytelling? Brian Chirls and Jerry Paffendorf discuss.
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15:12:56 09/03/08
DIY DAYS SF - WAR STORIES - ARIN CRUMLEY AND CAVEH ZAHEDI
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Arin Crumley (Four Eyed Monsters) and Caveh Zahedi (I’m a Sex Addict) have a candid discussion about the process of getting their films made and distributed. What really goes on behind the scenes? Join us as Arin and Caveh compare battle scars. Caveh Zahedi is an independent autobiographical writer/director whose feature, I Am A Sex Addict, won the 2005 Gotham Award for “Best Film Not Playing At A Theater Near You.” The film was subsequently picked up for distribution by IFC Films,. His previous feature, In The Bathtub of the World, aired on the IFC Channel. His second feature, I Don’t Hate Las Vegas Anymore, won the Critics’ Prize at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 1994. His first feature, A Little Stiff, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991. He is currently in pre-production on a metaphysical thriller set in Rome. Arin Crumley - The Wall Street Journal lists Arin among the top 20 new media moguls, and applauds the co-creation of the popular independent film and online video series, Four Eyed Monsters. In late 2002, Arin met his future co-director and collaborator, Susan Buice, beginning a relationship that evolved into the creation of Four Eyed Monsters. The project has become a cult phenomenon. To date, the video podcast has received over two million views, theaters across the nation have booked the film due to its online fan-base, the film was nominated for two Spirit Awards and in June 2007 became the first feature film to be posted in it’s entirety to YouTube. Now with all of this online exposure the film has been licensed to IFC TV to air April 25th and be released on exclusively in Borders across the US April 29th 2008. Now 27-year-old Arin Crumley is busy promoting the DVD release as well as the 5 new final episodes of the online component to Four Eyed Monsters and is in pre-production on several new projects in the works for 2009. Also in development is a brand new film festival he co-founded called From Here to Awesome designed to demonstrate a new distribution model available to all filmmakers that have internet connections.
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22:53:00 08/29/08
DIY DAYS SF - TIFFANY SHLAIN - THE TRIBE
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Tiffany Slain on the production and distribution of her short. Tiffany Shlain - Honored by Newsweek as one of the “Women Shaping the 21st Century,” Tiffany Shlain is an award-winning filmmaker, founder of The Webby Awards and co-founder of International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Her films include “The Tribe” and “Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness,” and have been selected at over 100 festivals including Sundance and Tribeca and received over 20 awards. Her last film was the # 1 most downloaded film on iTunes. Her team at The Moxie Institute has been singled out by The New York Times, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and Sundance for their cutting-edge work using documentaries and internet distribution in unique ways to engage audiences. Tiffany lectures worldwide on the Internet and her filmmaking. She is the director of The Moxie Institute, an organization that creates film, books and theater experiences around social issues using emerging technologies. She is working on a new feature documentary, Connected and a performance documentary for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts that premieres in October as part of the art triennial Bay Area Now. Tiffany is an Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow. www.tiffanyshlain.com
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13:16:17 07/29/08
DIY DAYS LA - WHEN THE AUDIENCE TAKES CONTROL - panel discussion
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WHEN THE AUDIENCE TAKES CONTROL The future of independent film is not in content aggregation, which is quickly becoming commoditized, but in audience aggregation. Sustainability for filmmakers lies directly in the hands of the audience. Direct to audience models have shaken the core of the music industry. But the power of Kevin Kelly’s “1,000 true fans” seems good in theory but where do you start? What are the steps to building an audience around your work and most importantly how do you keep the conversation going? Discussion Leader: Saskia Wilson-Brown (Current TV) - Arin Crumley (Four Eyed Monsters) - M Dot Strange (We Are the Strange) - Micki Krimmel (expert in social media and online community) - Alex Johnson (digital media strategist / filmmaker) - Lance Weiler (The Last Broadcast, Head Trauma)
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01:47:34 07/29/08
DIY DAYS LA - Lance Weiler - EXTENDING THE STORYWORLD case study
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Lance Weiler is a critically acclaimed award winning writer / director. Recognized as a pioneer because of the way he makes and distributes his work - Millimeter magazine called Lance a “tech iconoclast” and Wired magazine named him “One of twenty-five people helping to re-invent entertainment and change the face of Hollywood.” He has successfully self distributed his films The Last Broadcast and Head Trauma to over 20 countries while grossing over 5 million dollars in the process. Always interested in experimenting with new ways to tell stories and reach audiences, Lance developed a cinema ARG (alternate realty game) around “Head Trauma.” The cinematic ARG is a mashup of movies, music, theatrics and gaming. Over 2.5 million people experienced elements of the game across theaters, mobile drive-ins, mobile phones and online. Lance is also the founder of the Workbook Project a “social open source” project for filmmakers. The Workbook Project’s goal is to help filmmakers understand the changing landscape of funding, production, promotion, and distribution in a digital age. He is the co-founder of From Here to Awesome and DIY DAYS. In addition he is a partner in Seize the Media a social entertainment company that focuses on cross-media story architecture.
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22:53:58 07/28/08
DIY DAYS LA - THE REALITIES OF DIY - panel discussion
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There’s been much discussion about the democratization of the tools but what’s really involved in taking your film from a concept to something an audience will pay to see? How can you fight your way through the clutter and what are the pitfalls to avoid when you decide to go it on your own? Discussion Leader: Mark Stolaroff (producer and founder of the No Budget Film School) - Arin Crumley (Four Eyed Monsters) - Ondi Timoner (DiG, Join Us, We Live in Public) - M dot Strange (We Are the Strange) - Hunter Weeks (10 MPH and 10 YARDS)
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17:45:18 07/28/08
DIY DAYS LA - Marshall Herskovitz - KEYNOTE
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Marshall Herskovitz is a writer, producer, and director in Los Angeles who has won many awards for his work in television and films. Born in Philadelphia, he attended Brandeis University, then moved to Los Angeles in 1975, where he attended the American Film Institute and met his longtime creative partner Edward Zwick. In the years since he helped create such series as “thirtysomething”, “My So-Called Life”, and “Once and Again”. Among the films he has produced are “Legends of the Fall”, “Traffic”, “I Am Sam”, “The Last Samurai”, and “Blood Diamond”. He also directed “Jack the Bear” and “Dangerous Beauty”. In 2007 Herskovitz migrated to the Internet with “quarterlife”, the ground-breaking online series and social network dedicated to artistic, activist twentysomethings. Less than a year after launch, the fast-growing website – www.quarterlife.com – has become an international destination with members in 60 countries, and the series has become the third most successful scripted program in Internet history. Herskovitz is a longtime environmentalist, having served on the board of several organizations dedicated to preserving America’s precious natural resources. He is also a founding member of the 1Sky campaign. He is currently serving as President of the Producers Guild of America.