I was recently one of the invited guests at the Taiwan International Art Documentary Film Festival in March 2019, and one of the documentary directors I met with there during a quiet intermission in the lobby of the museum where the screenings were held suggested that I might be able to find an American documentary producer / director via USA or Canada connections or contacts or recommendations to make a documentary about the rise of the cli-fi novels and movies in the USA and Canada and the UK, involving novelists, film directors, academics, publishers, PR peo[ple, marketing people, acquiring editors, literary critics, newspaper book sections editors like New York Times books editor Pamela Paul, with many ''talking heads,'' Margaret Atwood, David Brin, Cat Sparks, James Bradley, Alice Robinson, Jane Rawson, William Gibson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Bruce Sterling, Cory Doctorow, Omar Elakkad, Charlie Jane Anders, Annaleen Newitz, Jeff VanderMeer, Mike Berry, and dozens more...... novelists, film directors, playwrights and literary critics such as Amy Brady and Michiko Kakutani....etc etc.....as a ''literary arts documentary'' with a climate change in the 21st century theme.
Maybe 60 minutes in length or 90, or 30, for TV or the Sundance film festival or Nat Geo films or Amazon Studios, Netflix, Hulu and other streaming services with funding to offer. Because all this hinges on funding and money, according to one my friends in the business. So now as a cli-fi PR guy and an idea man outside the system, I want to pass this documentary film idea to a producer / director in USA or Canada or Australia or Germany or France. I wonder who I might contact by email to suggest this idea and find a team to do over the next ten years? Perhaps with a release date in 2025 or 2030.
Let me know if you know any possible contacts.
Cheers, Dan Bloom.
MEANWHILE, some earlier literary documentaries to think about as models to follow:
Google titles for short descriptions:
1. Arwen Curry's "Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin" which was 10 years in the making.
2. Timothy Greenfield Sanders' "Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am" (120 minutes)
3. Giacomo Durzi's "Ferrante Fever" -- a 75 minute love letter to the Italian novelist, a mix of on-camera tributes to her popular novels and clips from 2 previous films based on her books. Produced by RAI, the Italian TV network.
CONTACTS:
A friend in New York suggests we contact RETRO REPORT
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