Re: San Francisco Bay Area filmmakers from 60's and on

From: Steve Polta (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Apr 08 2009 - 11:32:03 PDT


Dear Isabel,

I don't meant to be telling you what to do but, as the postings of others may suggest, the project you are undertaking is really quite large and overlaps with other projects, listings and collections already in existence or in progress. Your project might be served by investigating existing resources.
The list you are compiling may already exist!

If I may, I would think that a valuable project for ATA to undertake in this direction would be a documentation of its own history and contributions to Bay Area filmmaking and culture, for example by assembling and providing access to a collection of the organization's past calendars and ephemera (e.g. fliers and posters), which would easily include the names of hundreds of filmmakers.

The value of such a project should not be underestimated. Their are many significant "underground" venues that have literally vanished from the collective memory by not caring to document their own activities. It's unlikely that anyone else will do this for you...

Feel free to contact me if you want to discuss this.

———————————————steve polta

--- On Mon, 4/6/09, Isabel Fondevila <email suppressed> wrote:

> From: Isabel Fondevila <email suppressed>
> Subject: San Francisco Bay Area filmmakers from 60's and on
> To: email suppressed
> Date: Monday, April 6, 2009, 8:15 PM
> Hello frameworkers!
>
> Artists' Television Access is compiling a list of San
> Francisco Bay Area
> filmmakers from early 60's to present. It would be
> greatly appreciated if
> you can forward any suggestions for any specific decade and
> contact info.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Isabel
>
>
> Artists' Television Access
> 992 Valencia St.
> San Francisco, CA 94110
> http://www.atasite.org
>
>
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> <email suppressed>.

      

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