B-Side Community

A fellow filmmaker asked me the other day if I was going to update this site anytime soon.

 

"Of course," I said.

 

Then it occured to me that I may do something different with this site altogether.

 

A change up perhaps.

 

Stay tuned.

 

By the way, catch The Guest Room at Detroit Shorts on Saturday, May 30th

and Fairview St. at Muskegon Film Festival on Sunday, May 31st.

Peace!

I really appreciate it when a reporter actually reports, allowing the facts to speak for themselves and one which is not clouded with personal snark and bias.

 

It served to remind me that we the citizens are required to keep our public institutions accountable to us. And when individuals in their own system cannot get the answers to the questions they ask then the check & balances of politics and personal ego demand that the system be changed to suit the majority's desires and not necessarily the public's interest.

 

Hello? American democracy in action. It is over two hundred years old, you know? 

 

Look, the bottom line is that if we the average citizen - not just the purportedly better informed Michigan filmmaker - don't focus on shoring up these hard fought film incentives with impeccable behavior and delivery of high quality results, (let alone getting the incentives implemented in full, such as reimbursement for commercial productions as is the mother fuckin' LAW now,) then the next set of elected officials that roll around at the end of 2010 will mos def nominate our said illustrious film incentives, "best program to die first" on the chopping block of legislature.

 

This is Chicken Little signing off. So don't come back here in 2011 bitching about how I nailed the future into a coffin because that's cold comfort when we're all standing in the funeral pyre, pointing bony fingers into each others eyes.

  

Please prove me wrong. I dare you.

 

Here is how you can contact your Michigan state representative and state senator. Or our governor if you're feeling particularly candid and randy, you cheeky monkey. Let them know you are watching and listening. Tell them what interests you expect them to champion, or better yet, consider a simple note of thanks first. They rarely hear that and you gotta know what that feels like, right?