Posts are getting scarce – friends and family are sticking “have you seen this blogger?” posters around the neighborhood – it must be time for the Toronto International Film Festival! The question I most commonly get asked this time of year comes in many different flavours but essentially boils down to “how can an average […]
Entries Tagged as 'filmmaking'
How to do the Toronto International Film Festival in Two Easy Steps
August 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: canadiana · filmmaking
Panning for gold in the sewer: Fun with internet critique
August 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Friday’s post about Scott Kurtz’s take on interpreting critical feedback eventually generated a couple very interesting comments. One thing everyone agreed upon was that that the “signal to noise” ratio for feedback (incorporating all pro/amateur/literary critique/”you suck” e-mail) for any creative work on the Internet is astoundingly low. So the question remains – as a […]
Tags: A series of tubes · filmmaking · funnybooks · media ramblings
Confidential to Disney / Pixar PR & Marketing – A Proposed Deal Regarding WALL-E…
June 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Presumably your corporate fiefdoms contain (somewhere) a vast staff who does nothing but Google your various interests all day, in order to quantify and relay “the buzz” of people with websites in lovely digest reports. I desperately cling to this belief (come on Google spider – hook a brother up). I have nothing of any […]
Tags: filmmaking · media ramblings
Please stop e-mailing me about DJ Coffman and “Heroes by Night”
June 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Based, presumably, on the fact I referred to DJ Coffman in this post about why self-publishing isn’t a panacea, and the still wildly popular trio of posts about the TokyoPop pilot (the inciting incident, ensuing brough-ha, and third thing where Zuda gets dragged into the morass) people are seeming to take DJ’s post from yesterday […]
Tags: copyright reform · entertainment law · filmmaking · funnybooks · people I wish I were
Harry Knowles does not care for “The Love Guru”
June 19th, 2008 · No Comments
I can’t recall the last time I read a Harry Knowles movie review. I’m not really big on review-sites in general – but I used to use AICN as a vague barometer for “genre movies” I was on the fence about seeing in theatres – a role which (for me) is now much better suited […]
Tags: filmmaking
Talent Lab 2008 – Applications Available
June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Since the recent TokyoPop contract debate has completely super-charged my pagerank, I’m starting to get a number of enquiries at this site about the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival Talent Lab. Yes, Sandra Cunningham and I will be co-producing this program again this year which is a real honour. I legitimately think this is one […]