#Documentary Licensing

[garvescope]

The Global Revenue Stream Filmmakers Always Forget

You finished your film. You hit the festival circuit. You pitched to streamers. Maybe you got an AVOD deal. Maybe you’re grinding through self-distribution. But there’s a good chance you’re missing one of the easiest, most overlooked revenue streams in the industry: Foreign educational licensing. Yes—classrooms. Lecture halls. Academic libraries.Especially if your film tackles international…

[pureanonofficial]

Chess the musical fans watching the Broadway revival with potentially the worst libretto in Chess history be announced.

[a-bottle-of-tyelenol]

autism is crazy because tell me why I’m writing a fic about more traditional traveling circuses and all my brain can think about is writing a fic about contemporary circus

no one knows the difference!!!! but for over a year, all I can think about is this contemporary circus fic!!!!! it would be a mha au where UA is the most famous circus school in the world and they focus on very theatrical performances based on cirque du soleil!!! because that’s so neat!!!!! and art schools are so cool!!!!!

alas,,, I don’t even have concepts of a plot,,,

[thelivingautomaton]

bizarro fucking year, quite honestly!!! still would much prefer everyone to stop calling me "dr." and acting like I know what I'm doing!!!

not pictured: saw the Decemberists in May; got COVID over Halloween; spent 3 months in the job hunt trenches before landing a gig that starts with the new year next week. also, various bests of the year under the cut

best fiction book: 'Salem's Lot, by Stephen King

best nonfiction book: Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People, by Tim Reiterman and John Jacobs

best movie i watched this year: Secret Honor

best 2024 movie: A Different Man

best video game: Silent Hill 2 Remake, natch. honorable mentions include 1000xRESIST, Indika, and the original Resident Evil 4

best pet: the spud (see below)

[angelvisions]

Daily Blues, 2021

BA Photography final project, documentary series

[haverwood]

Licensed to Kill Arthur Dong USA, 1997

[filmcourage]

What My First Movie Taught Me About Negotiation And Licensing - Brandon Loran Maxwell

Watch the video interview on YouTube here.

[thequeereview]

Exclusive Interview: Oscar-nominee Arthur Dong reflects on his five-decade filmmaking career "a more equitable society has always been my goal"

Following the Criterion Channel’s 2021 Arthur Dong retrospective, ten films by the Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker have just been released by Kino Lorber with the three-disc Blu-ray Arthur Dong Collection, along with four hours of bonus features. The set includes Dong’s first independently made and previously unavailable film, Public from 1970, in a 2K restoration with a new score…

[jane-not-rizzoli]

Anyone an expert on uk copyright law? Dm me to have the most boring convo of your life that I will treasure forever

[farmerstrend]

Seaweed Farming in Kenya: A Sustainable Economic and Environmental Boon

Seaweed farming, an age-old practice in parts of Asia, is making waves in Kenya as a sustainable and lucrative economic activity. This nascent industry is transforming the coastal communities of Kenya by offering new economic opportunities, promoting environmental conservation, and contributing to the global demand for seaweed-based products. Photo Credit: Catherine Nduati Seaweeds are a group of…

[lackadaisycats]

Miss Tracy, do u have any advice on researching a specific time period?

(also I know u probably won't see this, but I love your art and you are awesome)

Look for books about the time period, but also books written contemporaneous to the time period, whether fiction or non-fiction. Check used book stores for out of print gems at good prices.

If photography was a technology that existed in the time period you're researching, look for photos of people doing everyday things. Take in the context, the geography, the economic situation. Look at how they're dressed and what their clothes say about them.

Newspaper archives. Sometimes newspapers of the past are free to browse. Sometimes you have to pay for access. Old shopping catalogue collections - if they exist for your time period - are great too.

Documentary films about time periods, or specific events in a given time period can be useful, even if only for a broad overview.

Museum exhibits - helpful whether you're looking for famous paintings or artifacts of past civilizations in a world renowned institution, or trying to dig up something impossibly unique in an oddity denture museum in some forgotten place in the Midwest. If you can't go in person, check online. You can find museums with vintage clothing or household appliance collections from even a few decades ago. Some museums have extensive, searchable online collections too. Take the Metropolitan Museum for instance.

If you can visit historical sites relevant to your area of interest, do it! Do those little guided walking tours. Do the ghost tours even - they're often fairly history-centric with some paranormal folklore for added spice. Sometimes they get you access to places you otherwise can't enter. Check historical societies local to cities or towns of interest.

If you need information about something deeply specific, check the internet for communities that form around that deeply specific topic. I've found tidbits of useful info searching around old forum posts from radio enthusiasts, Model T owners, and people who collect old telephone booths. (Granted, it's getting harder to search for this kind of stuff nowadays.)

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Be careful of AI trash, whether it's generative images, text descriptions, or entire articles. Don't rely much on film or television for accuracy. Some things are more interested in being accurate than others, but there's almost always some artistic license taken. If you're trying to be particularly accurate about something, triple check it for confirmation. Misinformation has had a way of spreading like insidious mildew even before AI started disseminating it with delusory authority.

Lastly, if you don't enjoy doing this kind of historical research like a weird little detective-creature, consider loosening up on the 'historical' aspect of your writing. It's okay to not focus on historicity in your fiction. But if you're going to dive in whole-hog on history, bear in mind it's an ongoing, often time-consuming adventure in information-finding.

(Thank you for the kind words!)

[erwinsvow]

Pregnant with pope’s baby after a month of dating?! Gorlllllll I want it

What’s wrong with me??

i need to elaborate on this after my exam tm but like. oh my god. the ideas are just ideaing so good for this plot. first of all being so shaky and scared about telling him because he literally has only known you a few months and you're knocked up and he probably thinks you're trying to trap him or something and you don't even know how to get the words out. just not ready to be a mom and not sure if he even wants kids or will want you after this—though you can't imagine him being mean to you. he's never been anything even close to the realm of mean to you. and you try to imagine his reaction and what you'll say if he's upset and you can't think of anything either. so you tell him and start crying from the nerves and the hormones and telling him you're sorry and he's doing that think where he just stares and doesn't say anything but you really need him to say something this time. and then i said this once before but it's we're having a baby? and normally i'd say it would be realllyyy fun to explore the non-married having a baby story like it would be so cute and doing all these firsts quickly like moving in together and trying to figure out how to live together and adjust to each other but. i just don't think it would be like that!!!! this is andrew we are talking about. imagined a whole life with you in his head that he thought, if anything, you might not want to be a part of the longer you spend with him. goes dizzy when he thinks of how you're carrying his baby. that you will always be connected to him because of the baby. that you two made that baby together. especially as you fill out and get more hormonal and clingier and he's just... very happy. the way you two act people would think you've been together years and years. it still comes out in certain ways—he barely sleeps and you can only take so many nature documentaries. you want yellow or green for the nursery but he says something about blue or pink. in the very beginning right after you tell him, he goes to city hall to get a marriage license and you have to have a serious talk about it (though he wins that conversation—babies need a stable household with two parents under the same roof with the same last name. what are you supposed to do? you agree with him and you're hormonal and very much in love with the father of your baby and so you jump into a decision that maybe should have been made in the future, but, oh well. love makes you do crazy things.) and well, you don't get the chance to have a flashy engagement ring because you were never actually a fiancee—you made the jump from girlfriend to wife overnight. you move to a nicer place where he paints the nursery (yellow! you won that argument at least) and doesn't let you help. goes to one of those pregnancy classes with you but you two don't make it to the third class—they keep asking the husbands and wives to talk about each other and the things the other one loves to keep a strong connection after the baby comes or whatever and you and andrew don't know that much about each other. but you both learn, that's what matters. and guess what!!!! its twins

[unitedwestandts]

An Open Letter to Family Influencers

This quote from The New York Times article ‘A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men’ should chill every person posting a photo or video of a child on the internet to the bone.

I want to be upfront from the start that this letter is not meant to shame or criticize. I only hope it will raise questions and concerns for the welfare of the children we’re raising in this chaotic technological era where there are no enforceable rules or regulations, protections or safeguards for anyone involved in sharing their personal lives on social media. The internet is truly the Wild West right now and we all have to do better. 

We are raising children in possibly one of the most dangerous times. Yes, we have more resources at our disposal than ever before to monitor our children’s health and safety but the foundation of many of those resources, the internet, is a vast ocean of uncertainty when it comes to how the information we’re putting into it on a day-to-day basis is being used and by whom.

Several documentaries have come out recently, Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke and Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing to name some, that not only highlight the deeply troubling realities behind family vlogging but also how unprotected and vulnerable the children of today are the minute we post anything about them on social media. There is no way to control who is consuming anything on the internet and this has created a breeding ground for sexual predators and pedophiles to roam freely amongst innocent viewers watching lighthearted videos of childhood. 

Many families turn to family vlogging for monetary reasons and I understand that incentive. In this increasingly unstable and high-cost economic world we’re living in, posting a few videos every day about the ups and downs of family life that generate anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars seems like a magical answer to the very real financial hardships so many people struggle with today. 

But the fact is, you don’t know who’s watching. Doesn’t that scare you?

I used to regularly consume family vlogger content on Instagram and Facebook. Who doesn’t want to watch beautiful families go through the same things you are in a funny, lighthearted, real way that makes your potentially invisible struggles and joys seem somehow seen and heard. You laugh and cry with these content creators and their kids, you purchase things they recommend because maybe they’ll help your child through the same developmental leap or help you stay comfortable or awake for the long days at home or at work. It’s a potentially flawless system for stay-at-home parents to contribute to their household income without the burdensome cost and uncertainty of child care. 

Except it’s not flawless, it opens up your family and your children to so many unspoken safety risks that we all seem to be willing to turn a blind eye to for the sake of enjoyable content that takes a little bit of tension or stress out of our daily lives. 

I think people don’t realize how much of our personal information is out there for people to find if they do a slightly in depth google search or pay as little as $15 a month for access to anyone’s public record information. My profession has nothing to do with investigation or background researching. I have the average number of tech skills someone raised in the age of the internet would have. And still, with someone’s name and general known location or just a phone number, I could find out where you live, any addresses or phone numbers associated with you, any potential relatives or associates and their information, any minor or major criminal charges, social media profiles, automobile type and license plate number, all listed out plainly on one internet page for my perusal.

Note: I do not write the following comments to specific family influencers with any sort of menace or threat, only to point out the incredibly dangerous situations they are putting themselves and their families in.

K.D., it is admirable that you and your family have listened to the wishes of your eldest child and not filmed or posted any content of him or her on your social media. However, you have mentioned his or her first name in posts several times, not a common name, and people know your previously married name. You’ve also posted about the type of activity he or she participates in. It takes one google search of those two names put together with your name attached and immediately a post came up that contains information about the exact location of where that activity is practiced. Doesn’t that worry you that anyone who really wanted to know could so easily find one of your children?

H.N.A, your antics and daily journey with your child are lovely and adorable. But you’ve made it known where you and your family live, that your partner works while you stay at home, and you regularly post timestamp videos about your routine with your child. Does this not invite someone to know exactly when you are home alone with your child? I only have to look up your name, age, and location on one of these inexpensive information websites to have your exact address. Doesn’t this concern you for the safety of yourself and your family? 

It has become commonplace online for family vloggers to post Amazon Wishlists where people—i.e. strangers—can you send you gifts. It is a wonderful thing to help others, that instinct should not be discouraged. But as highlighted in the Bad Influence documentary, how do you know who those gifts are coming from? In the documentary, a pre-teen girl was receiving gifts from ‘Megan’ who turned out to be an adult man, a sexual predator as we find out. Do you really want your toddler playing with a toy or your teen wearing an article of clothing that came from a pedophile?

I think there are two main questions family influencers should ask themselves. 

The first is: How far will you go? You start out filming your babies and toddlers, how far into their childhood are you going to post content of their lives? 5? 10? 13? 16? When they say they don’t want to keep smiling for the camera but you’re relying on that YouTube, Instagram, Amazon, ect. generated income, are you actually going to listen to them or are you going to persuade them into 'just one more video'? Which of their experiences and reactions are you going to post? Crying? Tantrums? Injuries? Their first period? Where does the line get drawn? 

The second question is: Will it be worth it? Will the money be worth your child eventually knowing you potentially put them in harm’s way? That you shared their childhoods, their vulnerable moments with complete strangers without their consent? Do you want to risk their faith and trust in you as a parent, the person they implicitly believed would protect them against the world? 

What will your child think of all this in the future? 

I am not here to blame or fault people who turn to family vlogging. The age of the internet has turned how we engage and interact with each other on its head and we’re all navigating this together, doing the best we can. While I believe social media did mainly start from a place of good intention in regards to helping people connect with one another, it has unfortunately morphed into a sort of money-hungry chimera that no one really knows how to control or regulate. 

The monetization of these platforms that we use daily only benefits the few people controlling them and hurts the rest of us by preying on our stress and shame. They make it seem like they’re here to help you if you can just crack the code on how to make a tiny slice of the monetary pie they’re making. Post content, advertise yourself and your family and you will be rich and successful for essentially just living. But, as much as we want it to be, life is never that simple. Taking the easy route almost always proves to be the wrong path in the long run.

I am a parent of a young child, a parent that does not post any personal information or photos of my child. This was a mutual decision between my partner and I, although it was my partner who insisted on doing this before our child was born. While I was reluctant at the time, I am now so grateful that I agreed. 

We have to collectively do better. I don’t know what the solution is to keep our children safe but I think that until we have one, the solution is to keep children off the internet. At least until they’re prepared to give informed consent regarding the use of their image and information. I don’t know what age that is, I don’t know what fully informed consent would be considered. I just know it is our responsibility as parents and people engaging with social media to keep the children of this world safe when we know of a specific threat. And the internet in its current state is a threat to them. Private profiles can be hacked, fake accounts created. There is no privacy on the internet. And as tools like the Way Back Machine and others have proven, the internet is written in permanent marker.

How are we going to continue writing its future with our children at stake?

[kuronarnze]

a/n: ANOTHER DRAFT. i love kurona ranze so much like literally, soo i made another oneshot hehe.. to feed my own delusions. Anyways enjoy ! (⁠ ⁠╹⁠▽⁠╹⁠ ⁠)

Kurona Ranze x Reader !

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Shark Brain

You weren’t sure how it started, but somehow, Kurona Ranze had made it his mission to fill your brain with an endless supply of shark facts.

Every day. Every conversation. No matter the situation.

“Did you know tiger sharks eat anything? Like license plates, tires, and even suits of armor?”

You blinked, looking up from your book. “Why would a shark eat a suit of armor?”

Kurona shrugged. “Dunno. But they do. They do.”

You sighed, shutting your book. “Ranze, where do you even get all these shark facts?”

He tilted his head, pink hair swaying slightly. “Internet. Documentaries. My brain. My brain.”

You stifled a laugh. His brain, huh? That explained a lot.

It wasn’t that you minded. In fact, you thought it was kind of cute how passionate he was. Most people found his habit of repeating words strange, but you had always found it endearing.

Like now, as he continued his one-man lecture.

“Great white sharks can go into a trance if you flip them upside down. Upside down.”

You raised an eyebrow. “So if I ever get attacked by one, I should just... flip it over?”

Kurona nodded seriously. “Yes. But don’t try it. You’d die. You’d die.”

You burst out laughing. “Thanks for the advice, Shark Professor.”

Kurona’s ears turned a little red, but he didn’t stop.

“Also, whale sharks have over 3,000 teeth, but they don’t use them. Not for chewing. Not for chewing.”

“Why have them, then?”

“Decoration.”

You snorted. “That’s ridiculous.”

Kurona shrugged again, a small smile playing on his lips. “Sharks are cool. They’re cool.”

You shook your head, smiling. “Yeah, yeah. Sharks are cool. But you know who’s cooler?”

Kurona blinked at you. “Who?”

You leaned in slightly, grinning. “You.”

For once, he was speechless. His pink eyes widened just a little, and you could see the tips of his ears turning even redder. He opened his mouth like he wanted to say something, but no words came out.

Then—

“Sharks are cool,” he mumbled, looking away. “But you’re cooler. You’re cooler.”

Your heart skipped a beat.

Maybe all those shark facts were worth it after all.

End.

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Thank you sososo much for reading ! Have a nice day or night! (⁠｡⁠•̀⁠ᴗ⁠-⁠)⁠✧

[lsd-astronaut]

Random headcanons of the fellowship bc I'm bored (mix of modern & canon)

✨Frodo

Scares the shit out of people by staring them directly in the eye without blinking but if you looked inside his mind, it'd be a rotating PNG of a fish, he just dissociates a lot

Would absolutely steal stuff in Claire's. He's really good at it.

Doesn't smoke, yet he is the one who gets asked the most out of the four hobbits for a light.

He strikes me as a stomach problems & back pain girlie.

🌻Sam

He looks like a bread guy for me. I like bread.

Full on conversations with his plants. Mainly gossip about the Shire, and how dashing Mister Frodo was looking today, can you believe it?

The only hobbit with a driving license (Frodo can't bc of depression and dissociation; Merry got pulled over and got his license revoked for having weed in his car; Pippin is a minor).

🍁Merry

You know these videos where a girl (usually) records her partner while they're cuddling and he's so whiny and talking like a princess, and suddenly he sees the phone and forces his voice like three octaves lower? Yeah...

Narrates everything that everyone in the fellowship does during the journey like it's a nature documentary. Stopped pretty quickly after Moria.

The Walter White of Middle Earth if he could get away with it, let's be honest.

🌱Pippin

Had a phase where he ate anything he saw. Mainly stopped after Merry made him cry by teasing him that if he kept eating ants, they would eat him from inside out. He still munches on flowers when he's bored. Aragorn has given up on telling him to be careful in case one is poisonous, but Boromir suffers mini heart attacks daily.

Accidentally mansplains to everyone he knows but that's because he gets very excited with his hyperfixations! He has no idea why he doesn't have any luck in love, and Merry is like "dude shut the fuck up..."

Is like these children who will constantly ask "why" to their parents, and Boromir tries to be nice and genuine for him but he eventually gets tired. "But, why?" "Because I fucking said so!" "Okay... but why?"

I feel like he cries pretty easily about everything and anything. He is just very sensitive, and feels emotions really strongly.

🗡️Aragorn

Hates parties; when he is forced to attend one, he will sit in one corner and sip on his drink. Gets really drunk and texts Arwen. "How was the party, meleth nín?" "Me, yes."

Hyperfixates on the weirdest things like Pippin, but his autism shows in the most deadpan way possible so he just stands there like "i like swords" and will emotionlessly list you all the characteristics of your weapon of choice. If you looked inside his mind, you'd see he is REALLY excited. He just doesn't know how to show it.

🏹Legolas

For some reason, I feel like he'd know a super random skill? Like ventriloquism. Recreates the "hi my name is snapple" video with Gimli just to fuck with him.

Can actually whistle with a leaf, idk how he does this, but it's the only 'instrument' he can play (apart from his voice if you want to get nitpicky with me) lol this elf does not have a single musical bone.

⛏️Gimli

Crystal girlie. Gives Frodo an encyclopaedia on all the types of healing properties and characteristics of every kind of gem and stone.

Really good medical skills. The rest of the fellowship regularly forget his uncle is Oín, so they're dumbfounded when Gimli gives advice to Aragorn, who is the only one that isn't surprised and actually listens to him when patching up Frodo lmfao

🛡️Boromir

Talks like someone out of a Shakespeare play and is dumbfounded when everyone in the fellowship is like "sup bro"

Keeps a heart locket with a picture of Faramir he likes to show like a proud dad does with his kids' wallet photos. Faramir was horrified when he learned of this and stopped talking to him for a month

Took to the hobbits like a dad who says he doesn't want a dog and then they're inseparable. Says he doesn't have favourites but Merry and Pippin remind him of Faramir and him when they were kids.

[dreamdolldiary]

life will not stop until it stops.

so go out. wear those “special occasion” outfits since everyday is a special occasion because you’re alive. get your passport and travel. quit the job you’ve been dreading and go for the one you’ve been eyeing. compliment strangers. make new friends. visit museums and local coffee shops. move out of your hometown. learn new languages. go to a ballet. read books. ask a classmate to hang out. go to the theater by yourself. stop doom scrolling. stop wishing and start doing. stop saying no to yourself. if you don’t try, the answer will always be no. learn how to drive manual. take drifting classes. go back to school. start a business. learn how to make coffee. take lessons, doesn’t matter on what. keep learning! do pottery. get cool certifications. take horseback riding lessons. go skydiving. go to a paint or pottery class. be grateful. get a bartending license. go to a concert and let loose. book an airbnb. practice calligraphy. go snowboarding. try out new recipes. be well rounded. rearrange your room. watch documentaries. write stories! work out. take a dance class! many different styles of dance classes. learn ballet, no it’s never too late. never. explore high end gyms, go to a spa!!! learn how to code, video editing, photoshop, take photos! buy a film or disposable camera! vlog! upload carelessly on youtube or instagram! who cares about a nice feed. posting is for you. visit a car show. take motorcycle classes. learn how to draw. learn how to crochet and make cute things to use and sell. make candles. try out different styles of clothing, try something new and funky. dye your hair. cut your hair! model! apply for agencies, jobs, new opportunities. attend workshops and seminars for thousands of different topics.

it is never too late when the world is yours!! live!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!