Comments on: Wanted: Film Fest Panels On Privacy Issues http://issuesandactions.hopeforfilm.com/2010/05/wanted-film-fest-panels-on-privacy-issues.html A home for my most recent blog posts. For more, please click links directly below. Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:39:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brian Newman http://issuesandactions.hopeforfilm.com/2010/05/wanted-film-fest-panels-on-privacy-issues.html/comment-page-1#comment-4256 Brian Newman Wed, 12 May 2010 21:47:01 +0000 http://hopeforfilm.com/?p=3442#comment-4256 The number one expert, world-wide, on this is Eben Moglen - he should be part of the conversation - he should lead it. That said, I don't think fests are the right venue. Fest panels are a mix of people and quite frankly, they get very little traction outside of their little world (for panels). For industry, I think this could be ok at Sundance and/or IFP, but even better would be a conversation recorded and posted on your blog and linked to others so it can go viral and start a debate and then a series of conversations, some of which might be at some festivals. The number one expert, world-wide, on this is Eben Moglen – he should be part of the conversation – he should lead it. That said, I don’t think fests are the right venue. Fest panels are a mix of people and quite frankly, they get very little traction outside of their little world (for panels). For industry, I think this could be ok at Sundance and/or IFP, but even better would be a conversation recorded and posted on your blog and linked to others so it can go viral and start a debate and then a series of conversations, some of which might be at some festivals.

]]> By: Marty Lang http://issuesandactions.hopeforfilm.com/2010/05/wanted-film-fest-panels-on-privacy-issues.html/comment-page-1#comment-4249 Marty Lang Wed, 12 May 2010 20:08:12 +0000 http://hopeforfilm.com/?p=3442#comment-4249 The Connecticut Film Festival is sort of on this wavelength, Ted ... we had a speech about topics close to this on Saturday, with Richard Esguerra from the Electronic Frontier Foundation: http://www.ctfilmfest.com/site/node/96 I wish you had posted this last week. :) The Connecticut Film Festival is sort of on this wavelength, Ted … we had a speech about topics close to this on Saturday, with Richard Esguerra from the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

http://www.ctfilmfest.com/site/node/96

I wish you had posted this last week. :)

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