NURTURE YOUR OLDER WORK

Last October Tom Violett joined one of our Escape Pod Zoom calls. He’s making his first documentary (Voices For Change) at 62 with his 19 year old filmmaker son Ray.

He said he went to a documentary screening of a young filmmaker in Philadelphia, PA.

“It turned out to be a Video Consortium Hub event, with both experienced and emerging filmmakers all in the same room,” said Tom. “That night, I turned to Ray and said, ‘I want one of these in New Jersey.’”

And that’s what he did!

“So I made it happen — connected with a few people — and we had our launch event a few weeks ago. We brought together emerging filmmakers, a documentary filmmaker who’s been doing a PBS series for 13 years, and another friend who’s been an editor for 30 years, doing high-end work like Super Bowl commercials.

They all just talked.

We’re building that community, and people are hungry for it. It’s tough when you’re out there on your own, but once you find that community, it just takes off.”

They all just talked.

That’s it, friends. That’s the magic.

The magic is also in re-sharing this story for people who didn’t it see the first time. This is another change to be inspired, to see how another creative person is making things happen within his creative orbit.

Because the work we create doesn’t has an expiration date. The photo books we make, or the poetry chapbook, the music video, the demo tape, the essay, the course, the piece of art. Most of our work is timeless yet we let it expire, starving it of attention as we move onto the next thing.

“Well, the last thing didn’t take off, might as well work on the new thing,” we say, even though maybe 100 people saw it the first time.

What happens when 25 more people see it?

What if instead of just “posting about it on social media,” we send it as a link to someone we haven’t talked to in awhile? Or we send it to someone we never met? Or we made copies of it and left it at a local coffee shop? Or sent it to an art director? A producer?

We’re going to be talking about this live on Zoom on Thursday, April 16th as a group of curious people, exchanging energy and ideas across an assortment of creative fields. I hope you’ll join us.

Thursday, April 16 from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Pay what you want, starting at $3 (or free for members)
Replay available to those that sign up.
Register here: https://luma.com/r4jwgreo