10 (9 actually) Responses to the Issues Brought Up at the “Indie Film Summit”
Thanks to MOMA and indieWIRE, some 60 or so representatives of the “indie” film world got together yesterday to discuss the state of the business. A tip of the cap is due to Eugene Hernandez and Anne...
View ArticleArt Cinemas Dying? No Way!
In case you thought that we were approaching some kind of art film apocolypse, I have good news. Art film theaters are thriving, wherever they are managed by people who really know what they are doing,...
View ArticleDigital Projection WILL NOT Convert Art Houses Right Out of Existence!
There has been a lot of discussion recently among the mission-driven, independent art houses in the U.S. regarding the transition to digital. The art houses are stuck between a rock and a hard place...
View ArticleA Theatrical Showcase Points the Way
For a very long time, I’ve been proselytizing to just about anyone who would listen about how digital projection could change the way we think about a theatrical release. While most people in the...
View ArticleThe Digital Transition & What It Means for Indies
With more and more studios moving away from 35mm prints, can art house cinema survive in a digital world? This article was originally published on the Tribeca Future of Film web site, and was reprinted...
View ArticleMore bad news about VPFs…or is it?
I ran into an exhibitor friend at the Toronto Film Festival (who shall remain nameless) and he went off about how unhappy he was about having signed a VPF deal in order to convert his theaters to...
View ArticleGateway to Cinema – Digital Distribution Case Study
Here’s a video of a panel discussion that took place at the Cannes Film Festival this past May, at the UK Film Center. It’s a fascinating look at the various initiaves that are taking place to reinvent...
View ArticleEvent Cinema Works
I’ve written many times about how theatrical exhibition has to move more toward special events in order to survive. Here is another example of Emerging Pictures’ efforts in this direction. This past...
View ArticleA Panel from 2005: My, How Things Have Changed!
In 2005, I was invited to a conference in Montreal called Digimart, organized by Daniel Langlois and his team at Ex-Centris. It was a very early attempt to deal with the coming convergence of...
View ArticleDigimart 2006 Videos are Back
For those of you who are interested in the intersection between technology and storytelling, the Digimart 2006 videos, which were MIA for awhile, are back. Here is one of the panels on the “Future of...
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