Category Archives: self-referential

Exercise for the new year

My friend Regina Gelfo sent this to me in the first few days of 2010 as an exercise to help me establish and put clarity into the year that had passed. She found it somewhere on the internet, not sure … Continue reading

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‘Purpose of Film Festivals’ on WorkBook Project’s New Breed

Just a heads up that my Purpose of Film Festivals essays have been published on the WorkBook Project’s New Breed- which I am unduly geeked out about. Go check out #1 here and #2 here. If you’re unfamiliar with New … Continue reading

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Me explaining crowd-sourced funding on too much coffee

Courtesy of the folks at Film Courage, I bring you my hyper-caffeinated explanation of crowd-sourced funding for filmmakers.

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THIS IS NOT A MANIFESTO… It’s a survival mechanism.

Published in the 2010 Slamdance Film Festival catalog for the WorkBook Project, Open Video Alliance and Slamdance Filmmaker Summit. Of the 3661 feature films submitted to the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, about 120 made it into the festival. Of those, … Continue reading

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UFBD on Youtube

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Announcing: Cinema Speakeasy

Announcing a new, invite-only, monthly film series – initially in Los Angeles – which aims to: showcase newer independent films that are doing the DIY Distribution rounds support the filmmakers by aligning them with new audiences outside the industry give … Continue reading

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Breakfast of champions

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There’s a narrative here

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My future husband is a euro-trash looking drug baron’s son

Hilarious description of what Mexican mafia lords are MEANT to look like (peasants with money), as opposed to what some of them DO look like (eastern european nouveau rich cheese meets sensitive intellectual meets HOT, as above): “They’re harder to … Continue reading

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