I’m most excited for open source social effort Workbook Project to bring their audience-selected film festival and conference to the city this weekend. First, on Friday, filmgoers are invited to use their mobile phones to select which of 22 films will be screened in the evening at Mint Plaza. On Sunday, the DIY Days summit at bar/gallery 111 Minna will tackle the ever-increasing difficulty of independent film finance and distribution. Some of my favorite people from film network IndieGoGo and production house Mekanism will be presenting, and a variety of program directors, content acquisitions gurus, and producers will be in attendance (although only one self-described Mega Professional Amateur Comic Artist has signed up so far). The August 17 program will be gratis thanks to distribution festival From Here to Awesome and Current TV. Of particular interest to Bay Area content creators are daytime panels on audience building and the blanket “craft of cross-media.”
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