18 Ways to a Sustainable, Truly Free Film Community By Ted Hope
You say you want a sustainable and truly free film community and culture? Then it's time to take some action.
I wish I could give marching orders instead of discussion points. I wrote this to encourage, but you can use it as a litmus test for whether you really want an independent and diverse culture. Which are these are you doing? Which of these are you willing to do?
There is the capacity for many more of us to create and prosper from creative media work. This capacity can also close up and vanish along with our audiences. The canaries are now the size of Big Birds, and we somehow have been able to ignore them.
The time is now. If we don't fully own the absolute necessity to change how we've all been working, we won't be working -- and we won't have the illuminating, inspiring, transforming films that we now enjoy.
It's your choice, but action is required.
There is the capacity for many more of us to create and prosper from creative media work. This capacity can also close up and vanish along with our audiences. The canaries are now the size of Big Birds, and we somehow have been able to ignore them.
The time is now. If we don't fully own the absolute necessity to change how we've all been working, we won't be working -- and we won't have the illuminating, inspiring, transforming films that we now enjoy.
It's your choice, but action is required.
Mentor:
if you have been working in the film industry for at least five years, you certainly have the knowledge to help lift somebody else up. ideally this would be someone from a much different background than yourself (more on that later) so things don't have to stay the same. That said, those that you lift up will also carry on some of your knowledge, so the bonds that need to be strengthened hopefully will be.
Curate:
you got into this business because you loved film, maybe you even always loved talking about films, but what do you do now to help spread the love? friends & family are the best influencers in terms of getting others to see films, and there won't be any business unless we keep people going to the movies. whether its as simple as getting friends over on the weekend to watch something they wouldn't normally have, using a social network tool to get a large group out and into the theaters, blogging about the things you think are essential, or forming a film club and actually booking films you love, there's something you could be doing to get work you love seen and appreciated. there are over 6000 films made a year; it's overwhelming. you have to become the filter for your friends, family, and followers. tell them what you love, share it.
Provide Info, Advice, Access:
industries all go through cycles, and it may have once benefited some folks who got established early to limit what others could know or get to do. but those days have ended. our future depends on innovation and unity; sharing what you know and have are the most likely ways for each to occur. if you learn something, pass it on. Post it. Tweet it. Discuss it.
c.o bfmg. part one of a 6 part special for filmmakers, filmlovers, artists and connoisseurs of great.
if you have been working in the film industry for at least five years, you certainly have the knowledge to help lift somebody else up. ideally this would be someone from a much different background than yourself (more on that later) so things don't have to stay the same. That said, those that you lift up will also carry on some of your knowledge, so the bonds that need to be strengthened hopefully will be.
Curate:
you got into this business because you loved film, maybe you even always loved talking about films, but what do you do now to help spread the love? friends & family are the best influencers in terms of getting others to see films, and there won't be any business unless we keep people going to the movies. whether its as simple as getting friends over on the weekend to watch something they wouldn't normally have, using a social network tool to get a large group out and into the theaters, blogging about the things you think are essential, or forming a film club and actually booking films you love, there's something you could be doing to get work you love seen and appreciated. there are over 6000 films made a year; it's overwhelming. you have to become the filter for your friends, family, and followers. tell them what you love, share it.
Provide Info, Advice, Access:
industries all go through cycles, and it may have once benefited some folks who got established early to limit what others could know or get to do. but those days have ended. our future depends on innovation and unity; sharing what you know and have are the most likely ways for each to occur. if you learn something, pass it on. Post it. Tweet it. Discuss it.
c.o bfmg. part one of a 6 part special for filmmakers, filmlovers, artists and connoisseurs of great.
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