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Q & A: How Willimon Runs Fincher's 'House ...Will Tribeca's Future of Film Blog Catch On?
Tribeca leader Geoffrey Gilmore's first entry, "How the Internet is Changing the Film Festival Experience" is serviceable, admirable, earnest, and self-serving. Same with Peter Guber, who has a new book to promote. Magnolia's Todd Wagner is a smart cookie who sees the digital future, but again, he's serving his own agenda.
Either really let these folks let down their hair (as Ted Hope does at indieWIRE), or admit that journalism is required: sometimes it takes an outsider (who understands the game, hopefully) to artfully arbitrate, mediate, and God forbid, edit raw material in such a way that the stuff makes a compelling read.
I wish them well, but...
2 Comments
Week of Wonders | April 6, 2011 2:09 AM
I think in this day and age, especially among the young, there is a tacit assumption of sponsorship/salesmanship/bias in these kinds of pieces and the best we can hope for is transparency of motive.
arrose | April 5, 2011 2:38 AM
Well maybe the initial posts weren't scintillating, but I like the blend of voices - having a producer, festival organizer and filmmakers all weighing in. It may well end up becoming a new kind of conversation - a 360 degree view of an ecosystem - which, while not replacing the valuable independent voices of journalists, could augment and stimulate discussion.