As tough as failure may be, something good can come of it – an opportunity for improvement. There is a stigma and shame that tends to come with failure, so much so that people rarely accept “failure” as an actual reason for failure. We often bury failure and, along with it, any opportunity to learn and grow from examining it.
Failure is cumulative. Just as success can breed more success, failure can breed more failure. Which is why it is so important to learn from it. That’s why, as noted in my previous article, I’m providing details about my failed effort as a first time distributor, working on the film, Four.
I realized my experience with failure was just one of thousands that happen every year. And rather than sweep it under the rug, I recognized the value of it. Because while filmmakers are so diverse,...
Failure is cumulative. Just as success can breed more success, failure can breed more failure. Which is why it is so important to learn from it. That’s why, as noted in my previous article, I’m providing details about my failed effort as a first time distributor, working on the film, Four.
I realized my experience with failure was just one of thousands that happen every year. And rather than sweep it under the rug, I recognized the value of it. Because while filmmakers are so diverse,...
- 6/13/2014
- by tedhope
- Hope for Film
I was going to call this something else entirely, but the more I thought about it, the more I felt it fit nicely into the "Notes On Working Towards A Fanboy/Girl Culture In Black Indie Cinema" series that myself and Charles Judson have both addressed in separate posts. It's all part of the ongoing discussion; this time however, lots of questions for both filmmakers and audiences: To get right into it... many of *us* (black people) routinely lament the perceived lack of interest in, and thus coverage of black films and filmmakers (especially indie black films and filmmakers) in what we could call the "mainstream" media (this site's thriving...
- 6/29/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Well, last week’s links experiment was a big bomb, so here we go:
The Winnipeg Free Press reviewed Guy Maddin’s Hauntings installation, which is currently up and being hosted by the Wndx Festival in Winnipeg. The National Alliance for Media Art + Culture profiled Chicago’s Video Data Bank about all the awesome stuff they do. Charles Judson of the Atlanta Film Festival has some awesome advice for filmmakers: How to write a proper film synopsis. I read so many awful ones of those, so please take heed, people! Not sure how much “underground” content is here, but Wide Screen magazine was nice enough to put a couple issues online for free. James Fotopoulos posts up lots of drawings and stills about his upcoming projects with no descriptions whatsoever. This one is pretty gross. Nathaniel Dorsky and his real life a night at the opera in the 1970s, his...
The Winnipeg Free Press reviewed Guy Maddin’s Hauntings installation, which is currently up and being hosted by the Wndx Festival in Winnipeg. The National Alliance for Media Art + Culture profiled Chicago’s Video Data Bank about all the awesome stuff they do. Charles Judson of the Atlanta Film Festival has some awesome advice for filmmakers: How to write a proper film synopsis. I read so many awful ones of those, so please take heed, people! Not sure how much “underground” content is here, but Wide Screen magazine was nice enough to put a couple issues online for free. James Fotopoulos posts up lots of drawings and stills about his upcoming projects with no descriptions whatsoever. This one is pretty gross. Nathaniel Dorsky and his real life a night at the opera in the 1970s, his...
- 9/4/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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