V –0 08 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
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seminars<br />
70<br />
vIdeo: good, bad or IndIfferent?<br />
10:00AM – 11:30AM Friday, november 7, 20<strong>08</strong><br />
Upstairs Screening Room – Movies at Midway<br />
Free admission, no registration required.<br />
It was once said that video killed the radio star (ok, it was lyrics from a song), but will video kill<br />
the movie theatres? It certainly has affected the way that potential consumers are viewing films<br />
and while looking forward, every indication is that trends within the home entertainment market<br />
will be a key factor.<br />
So many questions come to mind when thinking about this topic. Are people really forgoing the<br />
movie theatre experience and waiting for films to be released on DVD? Why do some films get<br />
released on DVD shortly after a run at the local movie houses, while other take longer, or never<br />
even get released on DVD? Why are there films that bypass the theatres and go direct-to-video?<br />
Is the home video industry filled with big players who assert power or are the mom and pop<br />
businesses the one who control the industry? How does the rental market for DVD(s) affect the<br />
sales of DVD(s) as well as the ability to find an audience for film in the local theaters? What are<br />
alternatives to DVD(s) and how will they begin to change the future moving forward?<br />
Join Richard Ross (Executive Director, North American/uK Sales) of TLA Releasing as he answers<br />
these questions, and many more as he provides valuable insight into an area of the film business<br />
that may be somewhat foreign. While DVD(s) are familiar now, do you know the path a film takes<br />
to get there and how this one facet plays such an important role in a film’s cycle, sometimes<br />
before a film is even made?<br />
bIo:<br />
RichARD ROSS is a 20 year veteran of the home entertainment industry, having worked as a sales representative for a<br />
variety of companies including majors such as Sony Pictures and Republic Pictures, and independent studios including<br />
A-PIX Entertainment and Triboro Pictures. He currently works at Philadelphia based TLA Releasing, who distributes gaythemed<br />
titles, International films, and extreme horror on their Danger After Dark label, in both North America and the uK.<br />
the state of fIlm studIes<br />
10:00AM – 11:30AM Saturday, november 8, 20<strong>08</strong><br />
Upstairs Screening Room – Movies at Midway<br />
Free admission, no registration required.<br />
The modern film-goer watches films made by yesterday’s film students. Do the courses<br />
that students take shape film audiences? If not, does it impact film directors, screenwriters,<br />
producers, and other people who make films? When did people first start studying films<br />
at universities in the first place? Why does film end up being taught in so many different<br />
departments? And how have digital technologies changed the approach toward cinema in the<br />
classroom? This informal session with three film professors will be a lively discussion on these<br />
topics and more, all related to film and academia and the ultimate impact of films on audiences.<br />
bIos:<br />
JAMES BURTOn, DAViD JOhnSOn, AnD ELSiE WALkER teach film study courses at Salisbury university in Salisbury,<br />
Maryland. Professors Johnson and Walker also co-edit Literature/<strong>Film</strong> Quarterly, a scholarly journal that has for over<br />
thirty-five years studied the ways that literature is adapted to the screen.
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