The following are notes from two panels I attended at SXSW: Financing in a Troubled Economy, and Finding an Audience for your Film.
What is your unique perspective and why does it work?
What is the story outside the story?
What’s the idea?
What are you selling? What does the poster look like?
Who are you trying to reach?
What will [...]
This is beautifully illustrated in the short film Kavi, a social justice narrative that sheds light on modern day slavery through the simple telling of a story about an Indian boy who wants to play cricket. Gregg Helvey spent two and half years working on this 19-minute film, and this past Sunday he sat at [...]
Picture if you will, every person in your neighborhood running down the street, screaming at the top of their lungs, knocking down mailboxes and breaking windows. Instead of calling the cops, you decide to join them. You have so much junk bottled up inside and you have to deal with it. You bust down your [...]