Brian Chirls
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--Here at SXSW, I’ve met a number of cool, smart, ambitious filmmakers, some of whom even have great films. Even as I attend premieres and par...
SXSW Short Films Panel
--I am currently in Austin for South By Southwest Film and Interactive conference and festival. I’m here with the From Here to Awesome team, m...
Slamdance: Alternative Funding Methods
--This January at Slamdance, I covered this discussion on alternative funding methods for Filmmaker Magazine. After a month and a half of wrestling ...
Building an Online Audience
--Last week, at Sundance, I managed to squeeze in a quick meeting with Scott Kirsner, who writes one of my favorite blogs, Cinematech. Scott was in ...
Sundance 2008 Video Blog
--I’m heading out to Park City in a couple hours for the Sundance Film Festival. I’ll be video blogging, focusing mainly on the panels. ...
Goodbye, Daily Link Blog Posts
--Until now, I’ve been posting links automatically using del.icio.us. del.icio.us is a very useful social bookmarking tool. The site has an &...
links for 2007-12-13
--TED Talks: Amory Lovins: We must win the oil endgame (video) “Energy guru Amory Lovins lays out his plan for weaning the US off oil and revit...
Hosting Features For Web 2.0 Blogs
--On the technical side of things, I want to discuss one very important feature of web hosting for filmmakers or anyone else. Frequently, a program ...
links for 2007-12-10
--Chirls on the renewed imperative for entrepreneurship in art « Blog of The Prawn (of Mogul & the Prawn) Tris Taylor (aka The Prawn), whom I me...
BAFF Panel Video
--Here is the video of the Big Apple Film Festival panel I did last month. The video is also available in higher-bandwidth Flash or as an AVI downlo...
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TED Talks: Sliced bread and other marketing delights
In a world of too many options and too little time, our obvious choice is to just ignore the ordinary stuff. Marketing guru Seth Godin spells out why, when it comes to getting our attention, bad or bizarre ideas are more successful than boring ones.
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Brian is genius. Great guy to work with.