Nitty Gritty Riot

To Beeman,

I have been watching this podcast for a while now. I first found Film Riot when I first took Digital Cinema in college. A lot of what the show teaches is rehiteration from things I learned in high school. I enjoy the format of this particular show because it reminds me of the feelings we had in the school that I was a part off.
We were in our late teens, the social implicatians of this form of art was able to spark fires anywhere across the land. There were so many indie production companies and the market was saturated with a lot of really great films. People like Tarantino, Rodriguez, K. Smith, and Both Del Torros were riding the crest of the indie realizations they had in the decade before- Film is a timeless voice that can be used for a greater ideal, best of all anyone could be a part of this dialogue as long as they brought their hearts into it.
These people strive to be consistant and exhude such a productive energy in cinema that thier foot prints will be standard for Student Filmmakers for the next few years. Filmmakers with-out a crew types who make work and survive and grow from collaboration and adaptation. I feel that the Folks at Film Riot encapsulate that feeling.
They are very informed people who have defineable stances on visual aesthetic theory. I don't feel that they have remaind visually stagnant. Clicking through their catalogue illustraits a growth in practice and standard that I hope to learn from. This is a universal feeling among filmmakers. Tarantino says you have to be the best or you're nothing an old friend once told me once.
I never understood what this meant. I hope that I am starting to understand and practice this principle of perfection that in my opinion is a signal of passionate people reguardless of their occupation or aesthetic choices that can transcend all medias and narratives

-jslm.

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