How can festivals survive without selling their souls?
I believe the answer – the way to survive without selling our souls – is in a crowd-sourced / crowd-powered film festival – a no/low sponsor film festival that is small, community-driven, and community-funded. This is possible to achieve, and would additionally be a solid step towards empowering the festival’s audiences and participants through transparency and involvement. This would require a few action steps: – Think about what you want to accomplish with the festival—what you think you should provide to the arts community and how you can best provide it. – Band together with local community groups as partners to share expenses or trade assets, band together with other festivals to create larger incentive and reach – Create comprehensive, community-based micro-donation strategies to meet goals, as they arise. – Maintain your relationships with your community through transparency, accessibility, invitations to curate/ host screenings/ participate in whatever way it sees fit. – Embrac
