From: Jack Sargeant (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Apr 06 2009 - 18:50:20 PDT
isn't the key in the phrase "non-profit", I'm guessing the venue may
hope to pay their overheads.
A few questions: are you going to be there introducing the films and
doing a Q&A? or are you sending them a dvd? are they showing your
films every day? is it a major retrospective? or are they screening
them in the cafe on a loop? there's a lot of variables that aren't
clear from your posting.
normally I'd recommend a door split, especially if the filmmaker was
present, and I say this as both somebody who tours movies and
somebody who programs movies, but economics / audience numbers can be
tricky.
BTW collective bargaining - isn't that what a filmmaker's coop does?
Jack
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>> hey folks!
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>> was just asked to screen my flix for free at a non-profit art
>> space, for a month ...
>> cool space, exposure &c, no problems there - but they can't afford
>> even a symbolic fee of $100
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>> which has got me thinking ... how has it become acceptable to
>> programme films without budgeting to pay their makers? happens to
>> me a lot, don't think I'm alone in it (?)
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>> maybe we need a bit of collective bargaining going on ...
>> any thoughts?
>> cheers Moira
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>> www.moiratierney.net
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