It's January 1st, the traditional day of new beginnings. The start of a resolution. A promise that this year will be different. A shedding of 365 days that didn't turn out as you planned.
Read MoreWhy can’t it be Art if I make it for an audience
I am an artist. There. I said it. But I also make films and write articles for specific audiences. I told that to someone at a SXSW film drinks and they told me that thinking about an audience meant I wasn’t making art. I’m sure she would have also said if I made money, then that also wasn’t art.
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Submissions for Hurricane Sandy Transmedia Project: Stories, images and video wanted
During Social Media Week in New York in February, Red on Black Productions will showcase the stories of New Yorkers’ experiences during Hurricane Sandy through the mobile storytelling platform, Moveable Feast.
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Sleeping in the Slaughterhouse: 12 lessons in Microbudget Filmmaking
One of my favourite talks at London Screenwriters Festival had to be Signe Olynyk & Bob Schultz giving their first hand experience in producing their first feature, Below Zero. Signe locked herself into the slaughterhouse in Edson, Alberta and made the film right where she wrote it.
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Channel 4 Fuel4: Director Asif Kapadia on Senna
Channel 4 held it’s forth Fuel conference, a day for multiplatform creators, producers and technology partners, at the end of October, 2012. We had the pleasure of hearing Asif Kapadia speak about his work directing Senna and how he made the extraordinary documentary about Formula 1 driver, Ayrton Senna.
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Convergence Festival: Be honest, open, and upfront
This morning’s Convergence weekend as part of the New York Film Festival has been driving the point home that people want to see good, relevant content, and most of all people want to work with honest, open and upfront people. Who wouldn’t really?
Read MoreWhat I’m going to see at the London Screenwriter’s Festival
So I’m going to London on Saturday night for 9 days and I’m so excited. Not only do I get to see all of my amazing friends, read through Raptured with the cast, and go to a Woman of the Year luncheon for my work with the riot cleanup in Clapham Junction, but I also get to be part of this year’s London Screenwriters Festival.
Read MoreI’m speaking at Transmedia London 5 in May!
I’m really excited. I have to fly through London on the way to China for our half marathon. When I’m on the way back I get to speak at Transmedia London 5 on 29 May, 2012 at BAFTA. I’ll be talking about my web series Raptured, what I learned from making the first series and what I’m going to do with the second series (eek!). I really want to put more of a transmedia element to it to tell the story of the new Raptured world.
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