[Frameworks] Self distribution situation

[Francisco Torres]

''The truth is, I don't know how to start to distribute it''
The first question you should ask yourself is who is the intended audience?
Distribution often depends on that.

2015-02-02 16:46 GMT-04:00 Lady Snowblood <snowbloods.parasol at gmail.com>:

> The opening sets up --
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> first, a tension between the actual experience of life as a series of
> sychronicities via singular point of view (the narrator finds only
> "fragments") and the very real need for a cohesive story for the psyche to
> hang on to (the narrator "I was looking for a story" paraphrase)
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> second, the image of three women speaking to each other followed by the
> voiceover of comparison/competition b/t self & other -- I think of the
> first narrator having that internal struggle and coming to a space of
> relating to others (or not) with a half-formed story ---
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> I would love to see the whole thing. I'm pretty good at writing treatments
> for very liminal work / work playing with elements of narrative.
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> Jessica
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> http://drawclose.com
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> On Feb 2, 2015, at 8:34 AM, Andrea Márquez <lejana.cine at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear frameworkers,
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> I would normally repress this embarrassing impetus of writing. I used to
> have them a lot when I was younger, and I guess I gained some experience.
> However, I'm going to ask you to watch this small fragment of our humble
> film called DETOUR.
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> The truth is, I don't know how to start to distribute it. I wish I could
> list a number of reasons explaining why it's worth watching or tell you
> something that could awake your interest, but I'm afraid that I can't. It's
> probably because of my lack of "the art of the pitching", but also because
> I don't understand entirely how DETOUR operates in spite of me, in spite of
> what I thought the film might be, what I wanted to make it say and so on.
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> Felisberto Hernández, an Uruguayan and a very extraordinary author wrote:
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> "I'll also have to write many things I know very little about; it even
>> strikes me that impenetrability is intrinsic to them. Perhaps when we think
>> we know them we stop knowing that we don't know them, because their
>> existence is inevitably obscure, and that must be one of their qualities.
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>> But I don't believe I must write only whay I know. I must also write the
>> other things."
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> I enjoy thinking there is a connection between this idea and my lack of
> knowledge and qualities.
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> *Director's statement:*
> “Detour” or “Around” or
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> *Adverb that denotes the situation of people and things that surround
> other. Outline of a place. Preceding a numerical expression approximately
> more or less. Surrounding, around. Metathesis.Movement that is difficult to
> determine. Examples: a hug in the darkness, panning that the camera
> suddenly stops, sideways glance of the subject that attempts to disguise a
> state, silence that precedes certain words.Circumlocution, round about
> expression, periphrasis.Without circuit, without result.More or less close
> but without security, without warranty.Shortly before or shortly after.
> Still unaccounted for.Going away, from a distance.Narrative device that
> dispenses the linear order of the successive stages leading to.
> Interruptions. Love.No destination, no teleology, no money.Inefficient,
> eager for simple stuffs.“Desire, yes, always desire.”Deviation, detour.*
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> I wrote this statement inspired in the way that we made the film. If you
> feel that something there could be interesting for you somehow, and you
> could help us to make this very little project finds its audience, here it
> is the link to watch the opening scene:
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> http://youtu.be/zMPEyvC1BrE
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> If you like it, I can send you the complete version link.
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> Best regards,
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> *Andrea Márqueze-mail: lejana.cine at gmail.com
> <lejana.cine at gmail.com>https://floodedhousefilms.wordpress.com/
> <https://floodedhousefilms.wordpress.com/>*
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> *Synopsis:*
> DETOUR is a lyrical feature film contemplating the detours of three
> childhood friends who reunite again after ten years. Starting with 1991
> George W. Bush's speech about the coming of a new world order and the
> announcement of Operation Desert Storm, the film explores the paradigm that
> started in the 90s after the dissolution of the URSS.
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