MMMM: Now Where Were We?
Links & Ponders 10/2
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just did a Links and Ponders post on Saturday. I know. I know. But I want to get over the weeked posting thing. Give you a break. Give me a break. Besides, these Links and Ponders started as Monday Morning Movie Musings. MMMMs. Remember those I am going to try to get back to those. More musings. Mondays. Give you some fuel to keep coming to during the week. But today is a bit more of the link stuff.
What Is The Model?
“Ultimately, the goal is to make a film accessible to a wider public. What is the alternative? To go back in a cave and make a film with limited money for a few people? That’s not where the fight is. You have to go where there’s a wider audience and fight as much as you can without bending to money or authority.”
-– Raoul Peck.
I am a huge admirer of Raoul and his work and have tried to work with him several times, but we couldn’t get the projects going. I am very excited about his new film Silver Dollar Road but have had this article up on my computer unread since it dropped on 9/8.
But sometime I think it’s not that we have to get where the action is, or where the wider audience is. It is all about the right audience. The right action. We get stuck focused on who is on top of the pyramid. It is more about the right vibes.
These weekend we were at the Woodstock Film Festival. The right vibes were in the room. To begin with, when it comes to nonfiction film, it was almost all the greats that were in the room. Woodstock has a fantastic collection of doc fanatics. And yeah, they are our friends and we like them a lot and I couldn’t have been in a better spot to screen our film. But it didn’t end there. I got to be on the narrative journey, and we gave Victor Nunez the prize for his beautiful film RACHEL HENDRIX.
“Independent film arrived over 50 years ago with the promise of a grand yet humble ambition, to deliver emotionally truthful, highly specific tales on an economy of means. Our prize winner did this and more. For its soulful, sincere & thoughtful examination of character, place, & loss, an inspiring confidence in its choices and commitment to authenticity. The film displays an honest & necessary pace & tone, and a truly amazing and unique performance that captures a life lived in both love and challenges, while never falling short in anything it delivers… But most of all, showing love and commitment to family despite the many hardships that come with it, and ignites the rarest of phenomena: true honest emotion.”
It makes you want to reassess the film festival hierarchy. Everyone wants to go to the biggies, but I am
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