Technology/Equipment Grant
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education
My goal is to purchase a newer, faster MacBook Pro to help me develop as a documentary filmmaker. Among the projects I’ll be working on this year is a series of short documentary films about organic farming in Carlton County. In May, I will be shooting some of the most ambitious films in this series. These films will require a faster processor and more memory than I have in my current Mac. So that I have measurable outcomes, I intend to finish at least one of these short documentaries each month from May through July and upload them to YouTube. I will also screen one of them at the Free Range Film Festival, which I help program, at the end of July. In my final report to Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, I will report the number of short films I was able to finish through the end of July thanks to this new computer. I will also provide the number of page views my films generate on YouTube. I will provide audience attendance figures for my film screening at the Free Range Film Festival. And, finally, I will share any press that I receive while working on this project.
My goal was to purchase a newer, faster MacBook Pro to help me develop as a documentary filmmaker, particularly as I began working on a series of short documentaries about organic farming in Carlton County. I finished one of these short documentaries each month (in May, June and July) and uploaded them to YouTube. (You can search for them there under the series title "Food Farm Slow TV.") I also screened one of the documentaries at the Free Range Film Festival in Wrenshall, Minnesota, where it was accompanied by a live score performed by Portrait of a Drowned Man.
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