[Imc-uk-process] Re: PROPOSAL Cinema, screening and distribution static page

[deano at aktivix.org]

Hear! Hear! 
Yes the cinema page was pretty much wasted, ultimately regularly out of date and
unused by most collectives. 

Deano


Quoting Ben <ben at riseup.net>:

>>> Been meaning to do this for ages but the arguments generated over the 
>>> radio page put me off.
>>> 
>>> The cinema projects page 
>>> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/static/cinema.html
>>> is in need of updating. The videos listed for sale are sold out and 
>>> don't include recent videos and the events listed are also out of date, 
>>> not including the regular london indymedia screenings at Inn on the 
>>> green for example and wrong day for rampart etc
>>> 
>>> I have created a new page which I propose replaces the old one. 
>>> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/static/screening.html
>>> 
>>> The new page contains lots of information previously found on the video 
>>> projects static page. If the screening page is adopted then I further 
>>> propose to remove the duplicate information from the video static page.
>>> 
>>> The new page should IMHO be used only to list regular screenings and 
>>> venues rather than attempt to provide information about up-and-coming 
>>> events as this has never worked in the past and usually just means an 
>>> out-of-date page. Instead, the screenings page lists the long term 
>>> regular venues and dates and point people to places to find information 
>>> about local screenings.
>>> 
>>> Regional groups organising regular screenings are encouraged to provide 
>>> information for the page.
>>> 
>>> The page also contains links to info about organising your own 
>>> screenings and also info on where to get videos from. It is this 
>>> information that I have taken from the video static page.
>>> 
>>> Finally I propose changing the banner Icon for the page to something 
>>> with the word screening as it sound's more grassroots and do'able than 
>>> cinema and might encourage more people to organise film nights. It also 
>>> better reflects the distribution angle which I think fits well into the 
>>> cinema page.
>>> 
>>> Personally, I think the cinema and video pages should be combined into 
>>> one but I don't get the impression that such a proposal would receive 
>>> any backing.
>>> 
>>> Since there is no imc-uk-cinema mailing list I have sent this proposal 
>>> to the last person to have updated the page last september and also to 
>>> imc-uk-video, process and network. Replies should go to process I 
>>> guess.
>>> 
>>> I'll implement these changes in two months time assuming consensus is 
>>> deemed reached by virtue of a stunning silence.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 





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