Thanks for The Ink
Dear Tim,
I love your magazine! Tom Allen did a beautiful job on covering me (Mar. '94)and the Feature Workshops.
—Rick Schmidt, Port Townsend, WA
Dear Tim,
I'd like to praise you for putting out a fine magazine. As an independent filmmaker've enjoyed articles about film schools, Taso Lagos's journal and Shea Salyer West Indies. My listing has allowed me network with people would never have otherwise met. any publication your magazine cater certain audience. don't want see Steven Spielberg, Roman Polanski other Hollywood bigshots even though they are wellwritten. If read who "made it,'ll Premiere or Entertainment Weekly. must include such articles, why not interview associated big movies normally get much ink. The Ron Bass Gan. `94) was inspiration all aspiring screenwriters. Cinematographers casting directors great interviews. is example of type many us filmmakers devour.'m sure non-filmmakers, vast majority readers, also appreciate articles. When find make movies, love hear anything connected this industry. look forward issues come.
—Doug Ing Seattle, WA
Dear MovieMaker.
I would like to subscribe to your most righteous publication. OK. Enclosed is my check for 15 dollars. OK. Excellent. Good. Thanks.
—Wrapped in Celluloid, Cliff Traiman Merlon, PA
Dear Tim:
Please start my subscription to Movie Maker Magazine.
Just wanted to tell you that the reason I'm subscribing is because of an issue I picked up at a 911 Media Arts event. Although I'm a videographer, I was struck by the technical and artistic focus of your magazine. I suspect this comes from the discipline and technical heritage of moviemaking.
I did note your interesting comments on the open screenings held at 911 and elsewhere, and I agree with you completely. There is a tendency to believe that aiming a video camera at a performance of any kind automatically makes it a video art piece.
Art requires some discipline and inner focus, not just pointing a camera at a bunch of folks doing weird things. There must be some technical. knowledge behind the presentation. Since we don't have to cut and splice film, there is a tendency to get lazy and not impose any editorial control over what is presented, and that just doesn't work.
Anyway, I hope you get my drift, and I look forward to receiving your magazine.
Sincerely,
—Jim Reardon Seattle, WA