From: Jorge Amaro (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Feb 04 2006 - 14:39:04 PST
ohhh Mr. Chodorov that is great!!!!!! I had no idea of such a group,
thank you!! you made my month!! I'll try to get in contact with them
to possibly organize something. And thanks Adam Hyman I will surelly
put those advices at work. :)
On 04/02/06, Adam Hyman <email suppressed> wrote:
> Hi Jorge,
>
> Now we're cooking!
> You now have the next few tasks:
>
>
> Contact the people you know of in Lisbon, and those that Pip lists below.
> Tell them that you are interested in screening in your town, or the closest
> larger town, as appropriate. Find out if they are having any guests come,
> and ask if you can contact the guests to see if they would come to your area
> as another stop on a tour of Portugal. Also ask if they those organizations
> might be willing to come to your town as well. Or even just ship you the
> films after they are done with them (which you would have to coordinate with
> the distributor as well).
>
> 2. Find a venue. The ideal is an room with 16mm and video projection that
> can seat probably 20-50. Maybe a local university has something already
> appropriate. You'll also want to advertise at the university. Target
> appropriate classes, art galleries, and cafes.
>
> 3. You'll have to raise some money for transportation and shipping. This
> is of course the hard part. Maybe you can find 20 interested people each
> willing to put in 20 Euros to start, for an initial fund. Then you'll have
> to charge admission as well, and/or try to get grants.
>
> 4. Ideally find one other enthusiastic volunteer to help you, especially
> with publicity and ticket selling.
>
> It's several steps, but they are all concrete and attainable. (You can see
> why, though, that there aren't lost of microcinemas everywhere, and why they
> don't usually last a long time.)
>
> Coordinating with other organizations in Portugal will help with travel
> expenses for guests, or reduce costs for shipping prints and tapes.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Adam
>
>
>
> On 2/4/06 2:02 PM, "Pip Chodorov" <email suppressed> wrote:
>
>
> There have been quite a few screenings in Portugal in recent years. Light
> Cone sent quite a large program there a few months back. There is also a
> Portugese film group who came to our film lab meetings in Brussels last
> December. Here is a short text about them from the Nova website. Their link
> is http://www.incrivelclub.com.
> -Pip Chodorov
>
> "At a short distance from Lisbon, in Almada, an old and charismatic
> ciné-theatre, closed for 12 years, is the shelter of the Incrivel Club.
> Located in a working-class area, the Incrivel club inherits the common
> popular imagination, which today, shows itself in a quite glamourish way.
> The Club is also open to other artistic skills, such as music, performance
> and even circus acts (due to its high ceilings). In the near future, the
> Club should be able to welcome artists and develop projects with foreign
> partners. The Club also works together with Nucivo, an association that is
> part of Lisbon University and active in documentary and vídeo film-making."
> __________________________________________________________________
> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.
>
>
>
>
>
> __________________________________________________________________
> For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.
>
>
>
>
-- Jorge Amaro __________________________________________________________________ For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <email suppressed>.