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My Future of Storytelling

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Tomorrow I head to Ottawa to take part in the Canadian Film and Television Producers Association’s Prime Time Conference.  I will be part of the panel scheduled for Friday morning 11am  – 12:15 pm in the Confederation III room on the Future of Storytelling.
Now I have to think of something to say on the […]

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If A Tree Falls

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

A guest post by Illia Svirsky
If a tree falls in the woods, does anyone hear? The same can be said about a writer without a production deal. Sadly, in this business, many spend lives stranded out in the woods. But it’s only now, in our epoch of savvy, that we’re stranded in the woods with […]

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Not Stupid At All

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

The Age of Stupid is a documentary film about the oil industry and climate change.  It was directed by Franny Armstrong  and produced by Lizzie Gillett.  I haven’t seen the film, but I’ve watched the making of (embedded below) and perused the web site and I suspect it’s a very good film.
The business model behind […]

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Digital Decade: The Writing Community

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Technology has affected writers in the last 10 years.  In my last post, I talked about viewing habits.  Today, I’m going to look at some of the other digital developments and how they affected us.
Blogs
Although blogs have been around since the mid-90s, free blogging services that made it possible for anyone to blog easily arrived […]

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Survival of the Most Creative

Monday, November 2, 2009

Rob Mills turned me on to a very important interview with Eric Garland of Big Champagne, who has been monitoring trends in filing sharing for almost 10 years. In the CNET interview, Garland puts what he knows in the context of the future of the film and music industries. He has a lot […]

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