Real film in this day and age
I’ve been getting a daily feed of searches about independent film. This entry from last night’s results really made me wonder…
I’ve been getting a daily feed of searches about independent film. This entry from last night’s results really made me wonder…
Aaaaaaand… Just as I was replying to posts from my previous thread, “Is there an ‘indie-film’ stereotype?”, this was delivered to my inbox: Indie film exhibits all the errors of the Genre My first thought: BAH-HA-hahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa. My second thought: “You know, this really would have been brilliant, if only the author had a good grasp of …
I just got back from an academic conference on popular romance studies. It’s a fairly new discipline, which is still fighting against the stigma of assumptions made about the genre as a whole (i.e., that it is “trash,” “women’s pornography,” etc.). So, I’m pretty well sensitized right now to the assumptions made by scholars, critics, …
The Seattle True Independent Film Festival (Or, STIFF), is open for submissions. In general, I’m not too fond of film festivals. Once the place where indie filmmakers could get a showing, they seem to have become merely another venue for those already on the big-name list to see and be seen. And considering my opinion …
An old friend of mine forwarded my last post to a friend of his in distribution. That friend very kindly allowed me to post her thoughts on the dilemmas of distribution and rights, from a documentary/educational perspective: [T]his whole discussion has been quite an albatross for a long time, mostly because the nature of distribution …
As part of the establishment of my blog, I had to create an “Action-idea”–basically, a dynamic story arc for what I’m trying to accomplish here. What I came up with is this: We’ve seen profound changes in the publishing and music distribution industries, but the digital revolution as regards the film industry is still in …
So, here I am. But who exactly, you ask, are you? My name is Kat. Nice to meet you. While currently I am a grad student in the (completely rockin’) Master of Communication in Digital Media program at the University of Washington, I am an erstwhile performer in the local theater and film scene here in Seattle. For …