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And crazy busy. Chicago and Urbana and Ebertfest were great, amazing, beyond my ability to emotionally comprehend, I’ve never had a week like that before. Then to top it off, Sita won Best Narrative Feature at the Indian Film festival of Los Angeles, and moved to #1 on Critical Consensus. That’s just nuts. Anyway, it … [...] I left my hometown of Urbana, IL, almost 21 years ago, with dreams of becoming a new age crystal-wielding hippie. I was 20 years old. Now I’m 40 (almost 41!) and will be returning with a feature film, for a film festival that didn’t exist when I was growing up. But first: the University … [...] If you know of an apartment in Lower Manhattan, Inner Brooklyn or Inner Queens, please let me know. I’m childfree and have a cat; I am also quiet, nonsmoking, nondrinking, TV-free, vegetarian, clean, and can pay up to $1,500 a month. I prefer top floor apartments (no noise upstairs, more sunlight, views – and … [...] Remember the days before digital copying? Every copy introduced small errors; a copy was always a degraded, inferior version of its parent. But entropy has a beauty of its own, as in this beautiful film By Alexander Stewart (it’s not embeddable, so you have to follow this link): Or so says the Critical Consensus (for now – Sita has a teensy review sample size). UPDATE: April 12 says we’re number TWO. UPDATE UPDATE: April 28 says we’re NUMBER ONE. Unbelievable. [...] Content is an unlimited resource. People can now make perfect copies of digital content for free. That’s why they expect content to be free — because it is in fact free. That is GOOD. Think of “content” — culture — as water. Where water flows, life flourishes. Containers — objects like books, DVDs, hard drives, apparel, action figures, and prints — are not free. They … [...] How many independent animators get a Bangok high fashion line named after their film? None, unless they let people share: We’re almost done authoring the Sita Sings the Blues DVD packaging and getting an order fulfillment service to ship it. Meanwhile, here’s something to do: sign up here with just your email address, and we’ll send you an mail with ordering information as soon as it’s ready. Because the “content” is free – you can … [...] |
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