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"La vie est meilleure, Léa, car dans la vie il y a l'amour. La mort est bonne mais l'amour n'y est pas."
"Life is good, Léa, for in life there is love. Death is good but there is no love"
Quote from M. Oscar (Denis Lavant) as the dying man to his niece in Leos Carax' Holy Motors
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Back in Berlin, we now wonder which film will reap the golden palm. Insider tipps say it could well be Leos Carax very special Holy Motors...
After four days made of eclectic movies, brief encounters (but of the Third Kind), tasty Provence food and unpredictable Provence (?) weather, we are now back from Cannes! To those of you I could see, it was a real pleasure to either meet you or see you again. To the others the good news is: I will now be able to reply your emails:)
We keep in touch!
Here some images brought back from lovely Cannes which I just uploaded on Facebook.
I tipped on Holy Motors for the Golden Palm. What is your guess?
Posted by Léa Germain on May 26, 2012 at 3:17am
Liz Rosenthal (CEO Power to the Pixel), Timo Vuorensola (director of IRON SKY) and Jigar Mehta (creator of 18daysinegypt.com and co-founder of GroupStre.am) discussed the engagement of audience in the film making process from financing to marketing.
The audience - your investor
Timo Vuorensola (director of the cult-film IRON SKY) explained the audience involvement in his film production. The Finnish-German-Australian Co-production had a total budget of € 7.5 Mio. The biggest part of the budget of about € 6.3 Mio was secured through traditional film funding. A relatively small amount of € 300,000 was raised through crowd funding platforms such as
startnext and through wreckamovie.com, a platform for collaborative film making created by Timo Vuroensola.…
Posted by Ricarda Saleh on May 9, 2012 at 12:00am
SylC is going to Cannes! Meet us there, May 21.-25.
Do get in touch! sylc@moviepilot.com | lea@moviepilot.com
Posted by Léa Germain on May 7, 2012 at 11:44am
Have you heard of Transmedianext? Field-leading experts among them SylC former coordinator and independent film director and producer Rachael Castell offer an immersive training course for experienced media professionals in the art, craft and business of storytelling for the 21st century. It takes place in London 14th - 16th May 2012 and if storytelling has ever appealed to you, this is the moment to sign up ! Read more here and look here for the Facebook event.
Posted by Léa Germain on April 30, 2012 at 1:28pm
Christy Dena is Director of Universe Creation 101, where she is currently developing a web-driven comedy-drama and web entertainment service. She works as an experience designer and writer on transmedia projects, and has consulted on multiple films, TV shows, alternate reality games and performance projects around the world. Christy co-write the Writer's Guide to Making a Digital Living and curated Transmedia Victoria. http://www.UniverseCreation101.com
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Filmmaker Arin Crumley has kindly written an exclusive guest blog for Support your local Cinema this month.
The Wall Street Journal lists Arin Crumley among the top 20 new media moguls. His first film, Four Eyed Monsters, won the Sundance Channel Audience Award, was nominated for two Spirit Awards and was the first feature-length film to air on YouTube. Millions of viewers have engaged across multiple mediums with the project, which began building audience through the release of a popular online video series and then booked film screenings across the world using the first location-based request system for independent film. The project evolved into an interactive experience when it began re-mixing footage created by the audience into the series itself. Continuing his exploration into new media Arin also co-founded a research and development project called From Here to Awesome, which invited filmmakers to create the future models of collaboration, funding, production and distribution. Recently Arin also co-founded OpenIndie.com, which is designing a new community distribution model for booking screenings of independent films and exploring ways to put revenue directly into filmmakers pockets.
Our many thanks to Arin for this one-off post.
For more information visit: arincrumley.com
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Amber Jane Butchart is a former Research Fellow at the Centre for Fashion, the Body and Material Culture, based at the University of the Arts, London, and has lectured in Cultural Studies at both London College of Fashion and the ICA. She is a freelance trend and design consultant and a regular contributor to leading tren ng company WGSN. Her research is featured on PYMCA, an archive of youth culture that spans back over the past seven decades, and she has also written for sites including Fashion156, which was recently selected for the Blog Portal of the British Fashion Council. Having spent seven years as Buyer and Trend Analyst for London’s largest vintage clothing store, Beyond Retro, she recently left to focus on being one half of the Broken Hearts – DJs, designers and cultural commentators (www.thebrokenhearts.co.uk).
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Nicola Sinclair is a freelance writer and editor based in Edinburgh. Nicola writes for magazines, newspapers and websites, manages social networks such as 38minutes and provides PR and creative consultancy services to a range of clients. Her particular interests lie in screenwriting, novels and design, particularly interiors and textiles.
This month, Nicola investigates how cinemas can turn followers into fans online.
Support your local Cinema is a pan-European project, funded by the European Union, to enhance audiences for independent cinema through digital and social media. We make social, digital products like iPhone apps for cinemas and networking blogs like this one. If you are a cinema, sign up and reap the rewards.
With the support of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union.
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