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| AUDIENCE: Practicing in Public |
| Description: Lisa Salem covers all things audience for the workbook and in this week’s post she shares some audience insight from Bob Dylan. “How to Build Your Audience and Keep It” is the first of a number new additions to the Workbook network. The site features an extensive “how-to” on building an audience in addition to [...] |
| Published: Thu Jul 24 |
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| TCIBR podcast - Inventing the Movies |
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This edition of TCIBR is brought to you by IndieFlix and Breakthrough Distribution - Inventing the Movies is a new book by Scott Kirsner that details Hollywood’s epic battle between innovation and the status quo. Scott joins us for a discussion about cinema’s past, present and future. Of particular note for filmmakers is a discussion [...] |
| Published: Sun Jul 20 |
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| UPDATE: Workbook moves to pharse 3.0 |
| Description: This week is an exciting week for us. The project is growing by leaps and bounds. As we head towards our 2 year anniversary later this fall, many of the things that we’ve placed on our road map have been met, others are still in the works. But today is a special day for a [...] |
| Published: Mon Jul 14 |
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| DIY DAYS LA: A Day of Independence |
Description: Since DIY DAYS and FHTA are experiments and extensions of the Workbook Project, we’ll be documenting their progress so we can share all the results.
How do we sustain ourselves as filmmakers and storytellers in this day of shifting film distribution systems? How do we monetize our film and get the word out? Presented by From [...] |
| Published: Fri Jul 04 |
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| TCIBR podcast: Creating Storyworlds - Jeff Gomez |
| Description: Jeff Gomez turned his childhood passion for role playing into a successful transmedia venture. His company Starlight Runner Entertainment has expanded the intellectual property of brands (Hot Wheels, Magic: The Gathering , Pirates of the Caribbean) by developing cross-platform storyworlds that engage audiences in new and interesting ways. The design and builds of these worlds [...] |
| Published: Wed Jul 02 |
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| 5 questions for Matt Hanson |
| Description: Here at the workbook project we are big fans of A Swarm of Angels and anxiously await Matt’s newest open content resource ViewShareRemix. ASOA is a groundbreaking open source film project and Matt has been at the forefront of all things digital for years, in fact Matt is up for top 100 innovators award. [...] |
| Published: Wed Jun 25 |
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| EVENT: DIY DAYS |
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In addition to discovery and distribution, From Here to Awesome has a special FREE educational section entitled DIY DAYS that is an extension of the Workbook Project. The DIY DAYS events are a joint effort between FHTA and Current TV and will consist of workshops, case studies, panel discussions, and screenings. LA and SF are [...] |
| Published: Fri Jun 20 |
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| 5 questions for Timo Vuorensola |
Description: Timo Vuorensola is a filmmaker who has fully embraced the concept of crowdsourcing. After the success of his last feature film Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning which has been downloaded over 8 million times, Timo and his team created a platform to help others crowdsource their movies.
WB: Can you explain Space Wreck and how [...] |
| Published: Tue Jun 17 |
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| TCIBR podcast - Lost Zombies & Skot Leach |
| Description: This edition of TCIBR is brought to you by IndieFlix and Breakthrough Distribution - Skot Leach and his brother Ryan are on a mission to warn the world about a secret zombie outbreak. Their Lost Zombies project is a crowdsourced zombie flick that has user-gen sightings coming in from all over the world. Community members [...] |
| Published: Wed Jun 11 |
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| IFP labs |
Description: The IFP has announced the projects for the 2008 Narrative lab and for the first time one of the films will win a $50,000 finishing grant. For more on info visit the IFP.org or the lab blog.
The selected projects for the 2008 Narrative Lab and Lab Fellows include:
At The Foot Of The Tree – Alfie, [...] |
| Published: Fri Jun 06 |
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