Inside Logo, was there a naysayer who thought shorts were a bad idea?
Sure, we had an interesting discussion here. Some people thought “That’s a little PBS.” Short films are not mainstream. For even the gay audience, they may be too artsy. There’s a lot of baggage the genre carries. But on the other side, people argued that there are a number of totally amazing short films that aren’t widely seen. It’s a great art form. Nobody gives it credit. And there happen to be a lot of great short gay films, which are a perfect fit for Logo. Why is the gay genre especially big among short films? There are a tremendous number of gay filmmakers who can’t sell gay-themed ideas, so they work on mainstream projects and make short films as a creative outlet to tell those stories, which are perceived as being non-commercial. So there’s this great wealth of material just sitting out there, and we can show it on the Click List. How do you find films? Filmmakers usually contact us through Logoonline.com, where we ask them to submit films, although we are also out at the gay
