The best place to see the big ol’ Super Moon this weekend was probably Palm Springs, which was definitely the best place to watch the 300-odd shorts films assembled by Kathleen McInnis and the big ol’ Palm Springs International Festival of – yes -- Short Films. While the locals went to the movies, the hundreds of attending shorts-makers -- especially those who don’t want to remain shorts-makers -- networked, partied (same thing) and availed themselves of the panels McInnis coordinates each year, in an effort to provide news-you-can-use for fledgling directors, producers and writers. A session on marketing your existing “content” (including what exactly “content” means anymore) included Sharon Badal of Tribeca Film, Ted Hope of the San Francisco Film Society, Jonathan Marlowe of Fandor and Derry O’Brien of Network Ireland Television; a panel on actually creating marketplace-driven content was populated by James Stephenson of Nickelodeon, David Poynter of TNT,...
- 6/24/2013
- by John Anderson
- Thompson on Hollywood
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