AIDC/NET-WORK-PLAY: shaping success from day one

From the makers of Yogawoman, some sage advice: breathe deeply and transcend the master-slave relationship.
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No more the servant of another’s ambition. Image: detail from The Milkmaid by Vermeer.

In this session, filmmaker Michael McIntyre (assisted by Sara Kidd) provided an overview of their online site, Indieville which is well worth a look.

Essentially Indievillage.org has been created to break the tyranny of the filmmaker-distributor relationship, which Michael described as being like a master-slave relationship in many ways. ‘The filmmaker does all the hard work of making the film and the distributor takes the benefit,’ he suggested.

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Mark Poole
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Mark Poole is a Melbourne writer and film director.