Hello all! Great work in setting the schedule. From the outside, it looked
as though you had to work extra hard this year to do so, so thank you very
much for your efforts. Our new Interim Projects Manager for the Maine Film
Center, Meg Fournier, is on board as of yesterday and will be helping to
promote and support Cinema Explorations. I have copied her here as an
e-introduction and would love it if you could add her to this list serv. Do
you have a next meeting date scheduled? If not, perhaps we can set a time
sometime next week for at least some of the CinEx team to meet with me and
Meg so we can get a plan of action in place?
Thanks again for your work!
Shannon
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Subject: [cinemaexp] Re: CINEMA EXPLORATIONS 2017
Yay!!! Wonderful!!!
On 11/27/2016 04:14 PM, Joel Johnson wrote:
Good news! I received an e-mail back from Ken. The schedule for 2017 is
pretty well set and it apparently will look as I presented it in my e-mail a
week or so ago:
FILMS
COMPRESSED
"THE ANTHROPOLOGIST" 1/14-15/17
"SPEED SISTERS"
1/28-29/17
"AS I OPEN MY EYES"
2/4-5/17
"DISTURBING THE PEACE" 2/11-12/17
"AFTER THE STORM"
2/25-26/17
"BABUSHKAS OF CHERNOBYL" 3/4-5/17
There was some difficulty getting a response from the distributor for "THE
ANTHROPOLOGIST," but we are all set with that film. There is still
negotiations going on regarding the percentage of ticket sales agreed upon
for our final film "THE BABUSHKAS OF CHERNOBYL," but Ken is quite confident
that this will be resolved so that this will not be a barrier to prevent us
from including that film in our series. So congratulations and thank you for
all of your work and feedback in our film selection process.
Now, of course, we need to attract and build our audience. We will have a
short blurb for our opening film in the next Railroad Square Cinema calendar
as well as a brief reference to the entire film series. I will be working on
longer blurbs for our promotional materials. I will be in touch with Shannon
and whoever else we might need to contact about those materials. If you have
any suggestions on who might be a good candidate to target for advertising
or, especially, have a suggestion on a possible tie-in between a local
business or agency and one of our films, this would be a good time to share
that. Also if you can think of someone who might have some expertise that
may allow them to provide insight to our audience for any one of our movies,
that would be helpful information to share. The more that we can make the
experience of watching one of our films special, the better for our
audience.
Joel
