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Geoff Gilmore (head programmer of the Sundance Film Festival):
"I am not so naive that I think people should come there (a festival) and debate Fellini; yet I would hope that at least some of the discussions would be aesthetic and idealogical discussions.
The generation of filmmakers currently very much involved in producing independent films strikes me as being similar to the 90's professional athlete - very interested in what's in it for them, in making money, having their own position and their own status, but not necessarily winning championships...
I meet more and more filmmaker who are extremely knowledgable about the business side of the industry and don't really know anything about film."
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(continued) "I don't believe that this generation doesn't work hard. I feel that the twenty-something generation right now is almost Protestant in their work ethic. Film students feel they should have no other life outside of their film schools. They don't even see movies because they're working so hard in school. When I was in film school, we used to say, 'Are you going to go to the Nuart and watch this film?' Because it was presumed that was what you were going to do. Now, though, people are saying, 'No, I've got to finish my project or I've got to work on my script or do my essay'. The goal should be to go see those films. My advice is, seek that inspiration, seek that knowledge, broaden yourself, and take the time for your project to really get it right. Or else I feel we are not going to have a generation of filmmakers who will be considered memorable.
"What so many of these young filmmakers forget is that you find a lot of major filmmakers doing great work in their late thirties, their forties, and their fifties rather than in their twenties. You need life experience and you just don't get it when you are twenty."
"I am not so naive that I think people should come there (a festival) and debate Fellini; yet I would hope that at least some of the discussions would be aesthetic and idealogical discussions.
The generation of filmmakers currently very much involved in producing independent films strikes me as being similar to the 90's professional athlete - very interested in what's in it for them, in making money, having their own position and their own status, but not necessarily winning championships...
I meet more and more filmmaker who are extremely knowledgable about the business side of the industry and don't really know anything about film."
EDIT:
(continued) "I don't believe that this generation doesn't work hard. I feel that the twenty-something generation right now is almost Protestant in their work ethic. Film students feel they should have no other life outside of their film schools. They don't even see movies because they're working so hard in school. When I was in film school, we used to say, 'Are you going to go to the Nuart and watch this film?' Because it was presumed that was what you were going to do. Now, though, people are saying, 'No, I've got to finish my project or I've got to work on my script or do my essay'. The goal should be to go see those films. My advice is, seek that inspiration, seek that knowledge, broaden yourself, and take the time for your project to really get it right. Or else I feel we are not going to have a generation of filmmakers who will be considered memorable.
"What so many of these young filmmakers forget is that you find a lot of major filmmakers doing great work in their late thirties, their forties, and their fifties rather than in their twenties. You need life experience and you just don't get it when you are twenty."