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Reflections After @IDAorg Getting Real:
"We need greater advocacy, mechanisms for education, and a way to safely share community knowledge...Every grant and every festival acceptance should come with a required teach-in on current distribution systems" https://distributionadvocates.substack.com/p/reflections-after-getting-real
"We need greater advocacy, mechanisms for education, and a way to safely share community knowledge...Every grant and every festival acceptance should come with a required teach-in on current distribution systems" https://distributionadvocates.substack.com/p/reflections-after-getting-real
"2. The incomprehension of systemic problems in distribution is an increasingly urgent situation, compounded by a global pandemic...We encourage the work of innovation, interrogation and reimagining that will prioritize audiences and filmmakers."
"3. There is a dismal lack of equitable structures in distribution and exhibition compounded by growing corporate consolidation...Lack of alternatives does not bode well for a strong individual negotiation stance nor for audience access to a multiplicity of work."
"Recent unilateral rate hikes and undisclosed removal of titles from streaming platforms are two instances. Simply put, we need new and more diverse structures."
"4. While our cheat sheet is aimed at supplying sorely needed information for individual filmmakers, its overarching intention is to start a process of unifying filmmakers around even more sorely needed systemic change...collective power may hold the key to systemic change."
"5. During Getting Real, a question was asked to our group that deserved a more thoughtful response...We are continuing a conversation about structural inequity through direct channels...We support the interrogation of & momentum to advocate for change within public media"
"Distribution Advocates would like to thank @IDAorg and the programmers of Getting Real for the opportunity to engage in the work of advocacy around distribution. We aim to continue the dialogue wherever and whenever we can." https://distributionadvocates.substack.com/subscribe?utm_source=menu&simple=true&next=https%3A%2F%2Fdistributionadvocates.substack.com%2Fp%2Freflections-after-getting-real
