“May one’s success not limit the opportunity of any other.” Wouldn’t it be awesome if all festivals adopted this as one of their First Principles? And then made all totally accessible. It would be a start of a Code Of Collaboration. And then from there…
It costs nothing for a festival to define what they stand for and then be transparent with it. It costs little to try to work well with others and find principles to align around.
Similarly, I think it would be a better world if programmers set criteria for both selection and rejection and then were public with them. Ditto film festival juries.
How is it that Sundance could hold back their best films in competing markets? Unless I'm missing something, they don't own exhibition rights. While I imagine many filmmakers would choose the Sundance branded fest over a local one, isn't it the individual filmmakers who decide which festival invitations to take or not?
The lack of collaboration from Sundance with other events already planned in Chicago is galling.
“May one’s success not limit the opportunity of any other.” Wouldn’t it be awesome if all festivals adopted this as one of their First Principles? And then made all totally accessible. It would be a start of a Code Of Collaboration. And then from there…
Sounds great, in principle, but with dwindling resources and revenue, not practical.
It costs nothing for a festival to define what they stand for and then be transparent with it. It costs little to try to work well with others and find principles to align around.
Similarly, I think it would be a better world if programmers set criteria for both selection and rejection and then were public with them. Ditto film festival juries.
How is it that Sundance could hold back their best films in competing markets? Unless I'm missing something, they don't own exhibition rights. While I imagine many filmmakers would choose the Sundance branded fest over a local one, isn't it the individual filmmakers who decide which festival invitations to take or not?