And now, our favorite quote of the week:
Mr. Stone initially said he hoped Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks or Mr. Lucas’s Lucasfilm could serve as a model for Important Studios, then paused for a moment. “In some ways it’s a stupid comparison because they are gargantuan,” he said. “We want to be a smaller, more humble version of that.”
He continued: “If DreamWorks is Walmart, we are over here knitting sweaters.”
The Sundance Film Festival wants all of us to appreciate its glory. And who can blame it?
So, with that end in mind, the Short Film Programmers of the 2013 Festival have chosen their dozen favorite festival entries and posted them all on our good pal YouTube for those of us who just couldn’t make the trek to Mormon Country.
Because, well, because we found ’em and they made us smile:
Mass media impacts lives, and each generation adopts current technology for the sharing of information, communication and entertainment. Five years ago, during my last round of college, I realized how differently my younger colleagues in class were experiencing media than I had. I use the Internet, but I’m a different animal. I was part of the first television generation. During my formative years, it was only available in black and white, and there were no remote controls.
Sometimes I read opinions written by columnists and bloggers who state unequivocally that television can have no positive influence, especially on children who watch. I don’t care what the studies say. I am living proof that TV could influence in meaningful, positive ways. You may prefer to believe I was just lucky, but I learned many important things from watching TV. Here are three:
Remember when somebody told you to “sleep on it” when the next step in your great idea wouldn’t come? And you did and it worked? Well, you aren’t alone:
by Christian Jarrett