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Simple Fix: Identify Film Images As Film Images

This digital age requires us to be specific.  We need to identify things so we can find things. We can not just leave things alone and expect that they will be discovered.

I get frustrated when I find a good website or article and I am limited on how I can share it. One of the reasons I like Pinterest so much is that it is so easy to use and share. Yet many sites and articles don’t include “pinable” images that drive the viewer back to the page itself, so you can pin them, or if you can, it is not an automatic link.  Heck, I know that I am guilty of such slack; I rarely include images on my posts, which makes them difficult to share.  And even when I do, I forget to put in a custom URL so that it drives the Pinterest viewer back to the post. 

Yet, I am grateful for this slack of mine, for it exposes a bigger problem that we all face.  The same problem — I mean, opportunity — is

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Issues and Actions

Simple Fix: List Of Where To Get Money For Your Film

I was meaning to build more Simple Fixes.  I have posted some here already.  Imagine how fast and far we could travel, if we all just generated a Simple Fix a month.  Or even a year.  Our progress would be astounding.

Here our filmmaker world people generally desire first and foremost to get funding for their film.  You’d think there would be a single place you could turn to and find all the sources gathered or at least many of them.  I don’t know of such a place.

So I built one.  

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Truly Free Film

The Discovery Of Good Movies Is A Job For The Community

If you make films, it is your responsibility to help others discover what is good to watch.  If you love films — or a particular type of film — it is your responsibility to help others learn to appreciate those films too.  “Discovery” is not something you can expect others to EVER do unless you yourself embrace the practice first.  “Spreading the word” is part of a filmmaker’s job description, albeit sincerely & authentically.

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Independent filmmaking must be a community activity if it is to survive.  You can’t leave good films alone. You have to make it your battle to get those movies seen.  If you don’t accept this as your mission, you are helping to hand indie it’s death sentence.

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