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HFF's Links, Ponders & Wonders: 11.5.24 Edition

Nov 05, 2024

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Someone else, please take over.
Free Online Screening of INVISIBLE NATION tonight!
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This is another reason why to be on Substack
Time to become the NEW Independent filmmaker
What I did last week

1 Planned obsolescence is a gift to one’s own career

I often think about “reluctant leadership”. I am a restless sort. And very curious. By design I think I was meant to sit in the back of the room. I like to observe. But I hate it when my foot starts tapping and I can feel that it is time to move on — yet everyone is still sitting still.

I have always felt that “action is the best alternative”. I would rather just be part of the crowd and be able to happily mind my own business, but… there is generally a pull everywhere and anywhere that compels me to take action. Get out of the rut. Stop delaying. Make it better. Clean it up.

As a kid, I’d rather you’d call me to meet in the ball field, but more often I was going around door to door to make sure we could field a team when I was ready to play. Yeah, it’s all a way of saying I will step forward when need be, but my joy is stepping aside.

When I got to play in the corporate world, I felt the best sort of leadership was to manage yourself out of a job. Red rover, red rover, let someone else take over. Yeah, they don’t really play that game do they, Joey? The Grey Wall of Old Men is staring everyone down. The last few LP&W’s tagged a bit of that, but there was also some nice things about seeing a rising tide. It may just be here on Substack, but be it job listings or some links to the things I hold dear, it is really sweet to see the swell taking hold — and not just the squeeze, stall, and stuck.

Anytime you see me doing something, you’d like to take over for a good long time, just speak up. As good as I am stepping up or over, I love to step aside. There’s plenty of other stuff I want to do. I just wish the leadership in the FKATheFilmBiz would feel the same. They have done enough. Time to let others have their day.

2 See the wonderful changes that can come from a female president committed to preserving democracy.

Stay home and watch our film tonight. This is what we need in America tonight. And everywhere: leaders who are committed to democracy, bodily autonomy, restorative justice, and self-determination.

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3 A few review that should make you get out and vote

4 God & propaganda generate cash

Regardless of what you believe, the box office doesn’t lie. And what does it say about how the election is going to go today? Anthony Kaufman asks the right questions and points out what some choose to wrongfully ignore.