I very much enjoyed this discussion, having run an international organization of filmmakers for 20 years and a sales and marketing company that sold films around the world for 11.
I am now involved with an International Studio that specializes in making films that offer possible solutions to the problems that we face in the world today. I know we will not make the greatest films ever made or the most artistic, but I also am sure we will make some of the most important.
It used to be only documentaries that would really treat some of these important issues, and I spent 3 and half years traveling around the world shooting my first documentary, but then my cinematographer and editor passed away and the pandemic ruled the world.
I decided to use some of my research for the doc to put together a meld of the documentary and the narrative, fiction feature. We shoot it during the pandemic, in 12 days, and it is now streaming around the world. Like the documentary and the horror film, it does not need a lot of money and known actors. The solutions are the stars of the film.
We hope it will lead the way for others to work in this new genre. Our goal, in our new studio, is to find new aspiring, talented, filmmakers who can help change the world for the better.
We will be starting a new evolutionary festival, maybe it should be called a showcase, as it will be so different than any festival before it. International with no city, state, province or country designations it will be held mostly on the Internet, making it easier for the filmmakers to attend financially, and also, easier for the worldwide audience and the buyers to attend.
After the showcase is over, then and only then will we screen the winning films around the world "theatrically" in a very different, impressive way.
The world of cinema is changing, evolving. Let's work together to be part of that change.
I very much enjoyed this discussion, having run an international organization of filmmakers for 20 years and a sales and marketing company that sold films around the world for 11.
I am now involved with an International Studio that specializes in making films that offer possible solutions to the problems that we face in the world today. I know we will not make the greatest films ever made or the most artistic, but I also am sure we will make some of the most important.
It used to be only documentaries that would really treat some of these important issues, and I spent 3 and half years traveling around the world shooting my first documentary, but then my cinematographer and editor passed away and the pandemic ruled the world.
I decided to use some of my research for the doc to put together a meld of the documentary and the narrative, fiction feature. We shoot it during the pandemic, in 12 days, and it is now streaming around the world. Like the documentary and the horror film, it does not need a lot of money and known actors. The solutions are the stars of the film.
We hope it will lead the way for others to work in this new genre. Our goal, in our new studio, is to find new aspiring, talented, filmmakers who can help change the world for the better.
We will be starting a new evolutionary festival, maybe it should be called a showcase, as it will be so different than any festival before it. International with no city, state, province or country designations it will be held mostly on the Internet, making it easier for the filmmakers to attend financially, and also, easier for the worldwide audience and the buyers to attend.
After the showcase is over, then and only then will we screen the winning films around the world "theatrically" in a very different, impressive way.
The world of cinema is changing, evolving. Let's work together to be part of that change.