ARTHOUSE FILM NEWS - Cosmic Disco Detective Rene at Facets, Chicago 11/29/23

Another positive review for MfM, looking forward to checking this movie out. Read the H2N review here . - Sujewa

Perhaps the number of customers you need in order to make a nice living from your film & other creative work is far less than the number most people would imagine; "Assume conservatively that your True Fans will each spend one day's wages per year in support of what you do. That "one-day-wage" is an average, because of course your truest fans will spend a lot more than that. Let's peg that per diem each True Fan spends at $100 per year. If you have 1,000 fans that sums up to $100,000 per year, which minus some modest expenses, is a living for most folks. One thousand is a feasible number. You could count to 1,000. If you added one fan a day, it would take only three years. True Fanship is doable. Pleasing a True Fan is pleasurable, and invigorating. It rewards the artist to remain true, to focus on the unique aspects of their work, the qualities that True Fans appreciate." Read the rest at the 1,000 True Fans article by Kevin Kelly. Thanks to Blake &

Good stuff; re: Hamas, Canada & NAFTA, etc:

Over at the Daily Kos: Clintons got money from Rezko co-defendants One man's attempt to collect all the Obama news in one place - " Cuban for Obama: One Cuban-Americans Quest to Put All Obama News in One Place" And finally, re: NAFTA & Cananda & the Obama campaign, good news .

I received the following update from the creator of the web series Pink : "Thought I'd shared some cool press regarding our web series "Pink". The show was recently acquired by Santa Monica-based company Generate, run by former WB Network CEO Jordan Levin. We're now gearing up to produce 25 more episodes to be released over the summer... Hollywood Reporter: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/business/news/e3ic8069f8098734cd40e0f68323f74fca5 Variety: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117981872.html?categoryid=1009&cs=1 NewTeeVee: http://newteevee.com/2008/03/04/generate/ Broadcasting & Cable Magazine: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6538138.html?desc" Congrats Team Pink! - Sujewa

Check out the interview here ; it's great because the interviewer & the subject know each other through previous interactions & thus topics are approached from different angles than they would have been had the interviewer been a relative stranger (i think). Plus the interview is long, I like long interviews with filmmakers; specially if they have a lot of interesting things to say. A segment of the interview: " SM: Looking at both of those characters, I feel the same way about race. Having grown up in white suburbia, I wasn’t forced to think about those issues very often, but if you’re thinking about the conversation you have to have in your head when you begin to think about race, there has to be that part of you that rallies out against it, in the way that Micah does, and there has to be the part of you that doesn’t necessarily want to deal with it, that part that just wants to look at the progress and wants to move on in the way that Jo’ does. For me that worked,

There are probably about a dozen, at least, indie movie ideas that deal with ethnic diversity in the US & will also strike a po$itive chord (that $ is for modest financial success - by real indie/DIY standards - low millions?) with a general audience at this point in time; & Medicine for Melancholy ( official website ) seems like it is exploring one of these ideas - ethnic identity - specifically African-American identity or identities - in an officially post-race , multi-ethnic, comparatively very successful, & post-historical society - specially at a time when an African-American candidate is very close to being nominated for president by the democratic party/an epic historical first. With the right kind of marketing & $s behind it MfM could be a cross-over indie film success (as far as I can tell at the moment, w/out having seen it - MfM does seem to have some great ingredients for a real indie success story, & well positioned; w/ SXSW selection, & most like

From Chris Hansen's new film Clean Freak: Clean Freak - Trailer from Chris Hansen on Vimeo .

From the Guardian article India will pay families to have girls to end foeticide : "The Indian government yesterday announced a scheme to pay poor families to give birth to and bring up girl children, in a bid to stop the trend of parents aborting female foetuses at the rate of half a million a year. Families in seven states are set to benefit from a series of cash payments amounting to 15,500 rupees (£193) to poor families to keep their girl children. Ministers say more than 100,000 girls will be saved in the first year." Read the rest of the article here .

Here's the link to Harris's blog Cinema Echo Chamber . And here's "Happiness is no fun"; a short described as a "blaxploitation tinged remake of Godard's seminal "Breathless" ":

Interesting & even entertaining story (the million dollar challenge info. is near the very end of the clip):

From the article at Wired : "From controlling the canvassing operations to corralling e-mail lists, organizing meetings and overseeing national phone drives, Obama's web network is the most ambitious, and apparently successful, internet campaign effort in any presidential race in the web's short history. "It's sort of MeetUp meets Facebook meets MySpace in one area," Champion says." Read the rest here . - Sujewa