Using new media to fund and distribute films

interesting article over at Netribution

Francis Ford Coppola

"You have to be willing to brave failure, which is when you lose all your money, or you are embarrassed because everyone is laughing at you. Most of my more interesting films were badly received at first. When Apocalypse Now came out, people said it was the worst movie ever made."

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Now Coppola bubbles with the enthusiasm of a 25 - year old. He talks of embracing new technology and filming in 3-D. And he's intrigued to see how the internet will affect cinema.

" I think films and all art should be free," he says, controversially. "Everybody should be able to download movies and music and they shouldn't have to pay for it. The artists should all have another job that they use to make their living, that's what I would do."

(I picked up a copy of the Times sat colour mag on the train up from London and read this really interesting interview with Coppola in it. I must say that as soon as you give up ideas of 'making a living' while making films more things do become possible)

Trying to get to grips with with the digital age and teen audiences

fascinating article from Netribution.

Covers really US Teenage behaviour with facebook/myspace and the opportuntites for filmmakers to interact. I think the point about going to the cinema being prohibitively expensive realatively is a good one.