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Daughter of Godcast 028
A podcast about movie making and the scifi featurette, Daughter of God, with Director Shri Fugi Spilt, (Dan Kelly). Daughter of God, Resurrection.
Hey, hi! Episode 028 of the Daughter of Godcast. We’re back and about to unpack more treasure from the vault, starting back where we left off last week, spring of 2011. We’ve dug out about 7 years of ancient history, and 6 more will bring us up to now-ish. So don’t worry, there’s still plenty of podcast ahead!
Right here in 2017, I bumped into one my genius interns from back then and having not seen each other since 2013 or so, we had a catch up in Oryana, while I scarfed a tempeh reuben sandwich and a flagon of tomato soup. I also ran into Tanya from episode 025, skateboard guru, Tyler, and in-lovers Jesse and Gwenan who have taken over Keanu Reeves’ Airstream tonight after romping in the Sleeping Bear. Just a typical afternoon in the Coincidence Control Cafe.
Cody was my last intern before I threw in the towel on mentoring high school kids, and a smidgen of his roto work survives in the current version of DOG.
In 2008, Michigan had one of the top three film incentive programs in the USA, championed by Governor Jennifer Granholm. When Rick Synder took office, changes were made to the incentive in 2011 that didn’t protect existing deals, so the big studios took their projects elsewhere. Having invested in Michigan and been burned, Hollywood was now wary of our unpredictable incentives, and the torrent of high end cinematic opportunity was gradually pinched off.
One version of the backstory involves Michael Moore, a fixture in Traverse City. Conservative Michigan legislators viewed Hollywood as Moore’s crowd, and the last thing they wanted was to encourage rival political influence in the state.
Micheal Moore showed up in Traverse City and helped save the historic State Theater and pretty much all of downtown from irrelevance. When he launched the Traverse City Film Festival in 2005, rabid regional conservatives retaliated with a sort of Freedom Festival, which disappeared after the first year.
After a brief flowering, 2011 marked the beginning of the end of Michigan’s subsidized cinematic renaissance. IE Effects’ Traverse City office from Episode 027 came and went, blindsided by political machinations. Even if Jonathan and I had been hired there, we would’ve have been SOL within a year.
But regional independent filmmakers were too excited to read the writing on the wall, we were Michigan’s newest economic juggernaut.
Michigan Movie Makers
James Weston and I had reconstituted the Michigan Movie Makers for at least the third time. Before James, M3 had an incarnation in the 70s. Our 2011 incarnation met for the first time at the Traverse Area District Library on June 22, and 20 or so movers and shakers showed up, including Micheal Moore’s chief valkyrie, Deb, who encouraged us all to volunteer for the Traverse City Film Festival, just a month away. My trusty nephew Patrick was also there and my first intern, Louise, who was too shy to introduce herself.
Other notables included Jeff Gibbs, David Marek, Andrea Maio, Andy McFarlane, Scott Tompkins, Joe Carter, Matt Kinne, Damon Knight and Brad Kinnan. Iconic filmmaker Rich Brauer even made a cameo to offer blessings and encouragement.
James announced our first initiative, the Micro Movie Marathon, a festival of 3 minute or less movi
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A podcast about movie making and the scifi featurette, Daughter of God, with Director Shri Fugi Spilt, (Dan Kelly). Daughter of God, Resurrection.
Hey, hi! Episode 028 of the Daughter of Godcast. We’re back and about to unpack more treasure from the vault, starting back where we left off last week, spring of 2011. We’ve dug out about 7 years of ancient history, and 6 more will bring us up to now-ish. So don’t worry, there’s still plenty of podcast ahead!
Right here in 2017, I bumped into one my genius interns from back then and having not seen each other since 2013 or so, we had a catch up in Oryana, while I scarfed a tempeh reuben sandwich and a flagon of tomato soup. I also ran into Tanya from episode 025, skateboard guru, Tyler, and in-lovers Jesse and Gwenan who have taken over Keanu Reeves’ Airstream tonight after romping in the Sleeping Bear. Just a typical afternoon in the Coincidence Control Cafe.
Cody was my last intern before I threw in the towel on mentoring high school kids, and a smidgen of his roto work survives in the current version of DOG.
In 2008, Michigan had one of the top three film incentive programs in the USA, championed by Governor Jennifer Granholm. When Rick Synder took office, changes were made to the incentive in 2011 that didn’t protect existing deals, so the big studios took their projects elsewhere. Having invested in Michigan and been burned, Hollywood was now wary of our unpredictable incentives, and the torrent of high end cinematic opportunity was gradually pinched off.
One version of the backstory involves Michael Moore, a fixture in Traverse City. Conservative Michigan legislators viewed Hollywood as Moore’s crowd, and the last thing they wanted was to encourage rival political influence in the state.
Micheal Moore showed up in Traverse City and helped save the historic State Theater and pretty much all of downtown from irrelevance. When he launched the Traverse City Film Festival in 2005, rabid regional conservatives retaliated with a sort of Freedom Festival, which disappeared after the first year.
After a brief flowering, 2011 marked the beginning of the end of Michigan’s subsidized cinematic renaissance. IE Effects’ Traverse City office from Episode 027 came and went, blindsided by political machinations. Even if Jonathan and I had been hired there, we would’ve have been SOL within a year.
But regional independent filmmakers were too excited to read the writing on the wall, we were Michigan’s newest economic juggernaut.
Michigan Movie Makers
James Weston and I had reconstituted the Michigan Movie Makers for at least the third time. Before James, M3 had an incarnation in the 70s. Our 2011 incarnation met for the first time at the Traverse Area District Library on June 22, and 20 or so movers and shakers showed up, including Micheal Moore’s chief valkyrie, Deb, who encouraged us all to volunteer for the Traverse City Film Festival, just a month away. My trusty nephew Patrick was also there and my first intern, Louise, who was too shy to introduce herself.
Other notables included Jeff Gibbs, David Marek, Andrea Maio, Andy McFarlane, Scott Tompkins, Joe Carter, Matt Kinne, Damon Knight and Brad Kinnan. Iconic filmmaker Rich Brauer even made a cameo to offer blessings and encouragement.
James announced our first initiative, the Micro Movie Marathon, a festival of 3 minute or less movi