INSTANT GRATIFICATION
Lily Hatchett
As we all
know, filmmaking is a painstaking collaborative process that takes time and
effort, spanning an extended period of time from idea to completion. That way
of working leaves the impatient, the need-to-see-it-now types out, or does it?
Available technology allows us to make a movie in a day. Quick video festivals
are here and multiplying rapidly.
My pick of
the season is RIPFest started by the Raw Impressions (
href="http://www.rawimpressions.org/">www.rawimpressions.org) team in lower
Manhattan. Founder, David Rodwin with Christopher Tine, executive producer of
RIPFest started with quick dances: ten choreographers, ten dancers, ten days.
Dance led to film and to musical comedy. Giving accomplished professionals a
quick forum for their ideas. The collaborative teams are composed of people who
have never worked together. I saw RIPFest 3: ten filmmakers, ten scripts, ten
days, ten minutes, all ten extremely well done, highly entertaining with a wide
range of subject matter: from silly to serious. You make the movie Raw
Impressions, does the publicity. The audience turnout was extraordinary to both
RIPFest events I attended.
