Film Distribution: Market Expansion or Contraction?
“We’re basically marketing to an eight-year-old” We want horror and action films. No comedy, no...
Read MorePosted by Laura J. Carruthers | Apr 23, 2022 | Art, Film, & Media Culture, Film Distribution | 1
“We’re basically marketing to an eight-year-old” We want horror and action films. No comedy, no...
Read MorePosted by Laura J. Carruthers | Apr 22, 2022 | Art, Film, & Media Culture, Festivals | 0
As festivals reach for industry’s authoritative involvement or stamp of approval, they limit their potential to build a strong, alternative platform for artists — unknown, unfiltered, and from unlikely places, but no less eye and ear worthy.
The more we can establish festival solidarity around the substantive, life-affirming art of the filmmaker rather than the shallow, killer instinct business of the conformist, the better our chances of creating a strong, visible counter-culture — a healthy, popular perspective and inclusive, support network from the ground up.
We need each other “to touch for good” – to transform lives, even after we leave this planet.
This doesn’t come in the form of obsessively lionizing the disconnected and the dead,
but rather giving meaningful support and opportunity to the living.
I believe festivals have a huge role to play and example to set in that aspiration.
Read MorePosted by Laura J. Carruthers | Apr 21, 2022 | Art, Film, & Media Culture, Festivals | 0
The festival is a very important part of the film experience. It has the power to preserve and to strengthen the fundamental purpose and integrity of film production as an art, as speech – as a meaningful function of the people….Go, if you or your film can make it happen.
Read MorePosted by Laura J. Carruthers | Apr 20, 2022 | A Voice With Legs, Grace Fury | 0
A Voice with Legs hopes to bring that fighting and free spirit of the film, Grace Fury, into routine.
By cultural critique, kudos, contemplation, and choreography, we’ll share stories, raise concerns, promote projects – and dance a little too.
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