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Film Industry Interviews Recap

Ep 24 Film Industry Interviews Recap0:00/0:001× After spending the last few months turning Media Business Matters into a series of interviews, Amanda and Alex put the interviews in conversation and take stock of what they learned about how the film businesses are changing and remaining the same.

The Publishing Experiment of Portals

Updated Jan 2018 My 2017 short book, Portals: A Treatise on Internet-Distributed Television, was a publishing experiment in a couple of ways. First, it was—more or less—self-published. Second, I released a digital, open access format as well as version for sale in paperback or ebook. Self-publishing and open

Is It TV or Is It Film-A Conversation with Dan Herbert

Film and media scholar Dan Herbert joins Amanda and Alex to try to sort out the difference between television and film as these distinctions grow blurrier. Ep 23 Is it TV or Is It Film?0:00/0:001×

Industry Interview: A Conversation with an Independent Film Producer

Amanda and Alex host Ira Deutchman in the studio to talk about how the independent film business has changed, and remained the same, over his forty years in the business. Ira reveals what he thinks are the most important parts of training filmmakers, what irks him about discussions of the

Industry Interview: A Conversation with an Art Film Exhibitor

Amanda and Alex take a field trip to the office of Russ Collins, Executive Director and CEO of the Michigan Theater and Creative Director of the Cinetopia Film Festival. Russ explains the particular dynamics of film exhibition outside the multiplex and a sector of filmgoing that remains alive and thriving.

Amandafesto--the blog--Coming Soon

Why on earth launch a blog in 2017? Good question. I was waiting to be sure about this whole internet thing? There just doesn’t seem to be enough to read online? Many reasons, but mainly that I often have thoughts longer than 140 characters yet shorter, and likely to

Author Interview: Portals: A Treatise on Internet-Distributed Television

Alex interviews Amanda about her new book that begins to make sense of questions such as "Is Netflix television?" Portals--a short book--explores how television distributed over the internet isn't a "new medium," but a new way to distribute television. The book considers how both