Film Futurist

            Over the last two years, I have circled the landscape surrounding the art and business of film in this blog. It was my way of thinking through a transition in the future of a medium I had spent nine years of my life learning, pursuing, loving, hating and finally [...]

In Jeffrey Katzenberg’s recent interview with Fortune  (watch the full interview video below) which has garnered some media attention over the last couple of days, he lambasts the “showbiz” for being too much biz and not enough show. He thinks almost every film this year so far “sucks”. While I wouldn’t entirely disagree with the [...]

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This TED talk by Jeff Skoll who founded Participant Media is a nice reminder of the folks who are out there using their power for good even in an industry as cynical as entertainment. While I don’t think every project they’ve made is outstanding, we can certainly take a lesson in social entrepreneurship through media [...]

After I wrote my last post about the dearth of innovation in film, I happened to read Anthony Lane’s New Yorker piece on Pixar, “The Fun Factory”. It made me slap my forehead in an “of course!” way. Lane starts out as a skeptic, ready to debunk the myth of Pixar as the den of [...]

I just got back from LA (which is where I both attended film school and spent the majority of my professional life until about a year ago) and something struck me this time that had never occurred to me before: there is no model for innovation in Hollywood. Most of the younger folks in the [...]

The YouTube feature film experiment I wrote about last year is finally finished, in time for the intended premiere both at Sundance and on YouTube on January 27th. The experiment, which invited filmmakers to submit films shot on a single day – July 24, 2010 is coming to your laptop screen next week. According to [...]

If you were at the New York DIY Days a few weeks ago, and stayed till the very end, you might be featured in this “Mad as Hell” Arin Crumley video below. First off, I have to say hats off to Crumley for putting all that heart into his work. I felt like I was [...]

I met Gregory Bayne on Twitter, which is where I meet the most interesting people in my professional world these days. He recommended my blog on his site This Lovely Machine one day and I thanked him. He responded with the kind of generosity of a person who recognized and honored the fact that those [...]