Just to agree with Jessica here since I have very little time before my next tennis match. A song or a photo (can) cost very little to produce. To make a film is relatively very, very expensive. To restore the next film we're working on, will cost us $100,000. Add to that another $50,000 to release it. There is a very small profit margin to release "serious" films in the United States and because it's in the short film that the NYPL restored and is on our next DVD, BOWERY MEN'S SHELTER, I'll quote from John Donne's sermon. (It's NOT technically a poem, folks...)
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. And each illegal download is a clod. And yes, I'm seeing a LOT of indie distributors facing financial difficulties this year. Dennis On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Jessica Rosner <jessicapros...@gmail.com>wrote: > Sorry Chris but this is crap along with the "piracy really helps a film" > theory propagated by Pirates. Look if a filmmaker who paid for his own work > wants to make it available for free than that is their right but it does > not justify stealing from others who don't. The situation is simply acute > with American Independent films and especially foreign films. There will be > virtually be no legal distribution of older films soon and little > production of new ones. Feature films are not individual works and they > cost a small fortune to make, if people and INSTITUTIONS continue to steal > them ( and sorry there are institutions doing this) Let me give you two > recent examples > > I am working with a company that has a number of very good foreign films > that they acquire the rights to for US & UK distribution. One of them was > a top prize winning film from Italy made in 2010 that has not yet been > released in the US. I found it up on youtube (neatly chopped in 10 segments) > I had the company file with youtube and it was taken down. First it was > replaced with a snarky message about being forced to remove an item ( > really youtube thinks posting an entire film over 100 minutes was legal?) > and THEN the original poster was allowed to post a LINK TO Bittorrent > illegal copy. Thanks a lot. What possible market can't their be when people > not only don't care that they are stealing films, they claim that either > they are doing you a favor or you are just a greedy pig. > > The 2nd incident was a conservation with my nephew, an NYU senior. He and > his roommate have never paid for a film they watched at home. All are all > illegal downloads. This is hardly surprising because they go to a school > that condones and engages in illegal copying and streaming ( there I said > it) in which a leading professor ( who is very active in a variety of > academic and foundation groups on "copyright")tells librarians and > institutions that they should be able to copy and stream any film they want > to use because if the rights holder has not made it available that is just > too bad( trust me I am not exaggerating as he said this to my face). > > So when you wonder why the only copy you can find of a film looks like > crap from a bootleg site or there are a lot fewer foreign films around, > this is the reason. People are stealing them so there is no incentive to > make a good legal copy available. Also remember this when the next indie > distributor goes under. > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Chris McNevins > <chris.mcnev...@uconn.edu>wrote: > >> ** >> >> Hi All, >> >> My cousin sent me this tidbit: >> >> * >> https://plus.google.com/105237212888595777019/posts/Da1wjfvrLxq#105237212888595777019/posts/Da1wjfvrLxq >> *<https://plus.google.com/105237212888595777019/posts/Da1wjfvrLxq#105237212888595777019/posts/Da1wjfvrLxq> >> >> ________________________________________ >> >> *****Chris McNevins* | ACQUISITIONS COORDINATOR >> >> UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | HOMER BABBIDGE LIBRARY >> >> 369 Fairfield Way Unit 2005AM | Storrs, CT 06269-2005 USA >> >> *******PH*: 860-486-3842 |******* FX*: 860-486-6493 |******* EMAIL*: **** >> *chris.mcnev...@uconn.edu* <chris.mcnev...@uconn.edu> >> >> ________________________________________ >> >> >> VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of >> issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic >> control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in >> libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as >> an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of >> communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video >> producers and distributors. >> >> > > > -- > Jessica Rosner > Media Consultant > 224-545-3897 (cell) > 212-627-1785 (land line) > jessicapros...@gmail.com > > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of > issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic > control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in > libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as > an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of > communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video > producers and distributors. > > -- Best regards, Dennis Doros Milestone Film & Video/Milliarium Zero PO Box 128 Harrington Park, NJ 07640 Phone: 201-767-3117 Fax: 201-767-3035 email: milefi...@gmail.com www.milestonefilms.com www.comebackafrica.com www.yougottomove.com www.ontheboweryfilm.com www.arayafilm.com www.exilesfilm.com www.wordisoutmovie.com www.killerofsheep.com <http://www.killerofsheep.com> Join "Milestone Film" on Facebook and Twitter! and the Association of Moving Image Archivists <http://www.amianet.org>! Follow Milestone on Twitter! <http://twitter.com/#!/MilestoneFilms>
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