Posts Tagged ‘Scott Kirsner’

Much of LA becomes consumed with the buying and selling of features this week as 8000 gather at the American Film Market which kicks off W 11/4 and runs through W 11/11 concurrently with AFI Fest. Ground zero is the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel where 400 distributors are getting ready to rumble.  As the distributors […]


It would have been great to go to the Hollywood Radio and Television Society (HRTS) Digital Chiefs luncheon at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza with Bob Iger, Disney, Jason Kilar, Hulu, Jonathan Miller, News Corp, Chad Hurley, YouTube, and Chris Anderson, Wired, but I just couldn’t get down to LA today.  So I did the […]


I’m in NYC to cover some of the excitement with the Upfronts and have been having fun running up and down Fifth Avenue meeting with content licensors, distributors and agencies for my clients. I love my hometown but have mixed feelings about the weather. So we’re all just hunkering down when Scott Kirsner’s Cinematech blog […]


SXSW audio just in from Scott Kirsner of Variety: Building Your Audience Online:  www.scottkirsner.com/SXSWaud-panel.mp3 Film Financing, Creative Commons Plus Licensing..:  www.scottkirsner.com/SXSWbreakfast.mp3 Scott’s new book, Fans, Friends & Followers:  Building an Audience & Creative Career in the Digital Age available soon with interviews with Mike Chapman of Homestar Runner, etc.  His books always chock full of actionable […]


January was a non-stop, jam-packed, event-happening month with everyone jet-setting everywhere.  So if you couldn’t be there, catch up here: Macworld 1/5 – 1/9 http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/macworld-san-francisco-2009 http://www.peachpit.com/podcasts CES 1/8 – 1/11 http://www.cesweb.org/sessions/keynotes.asp The Crunchies 1/9 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1043091 Churchill Club 1/15 Browsers are Hot Again blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11599 Slamdance 1/15 – 1/23 http://www.slamdance.com/videos/products/731.html Sundance  1/15 – 1/25 http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7D755FAF5838C18C http://www.scottkirsner.com/Sundance-edit.mp3 Sundance […]


Cupertino is a balmy 72 degrees and Park City is freezing.  So in this age of the mobile producer, you’d think you’d be able to create a Virtual Sundance with all the tweets, postings and videos of those that do go.  Not so.  All I found was Ashton Kutcher’s www.24hoursatsundance.com, ten days of free shorts screenings at www.itunes.com/sundance, […]


For those of you who might have missed Scott Kirsner’s presentation on “Inventing the Movies” at the Pacific Film Archive’s “Conversation” conference in October, FORA.tv caught up with Scott giving a similar presentation at the Hillside Club.  Click here for the video.  Then check out Scott’s awesome CinemaTech blog.  This Variety journalist is the pied […]