Visit the TribecaFilm.com site to learn you can help, with links to Lee Hirsch's site, a Toolkit, and a DEMAND it link so you can see it in your town.
http://www.tribecafilm.com/news-features/Lee_Hirsch_Thanks_Tribeca_for_Launch....T3boanjHY21

Excerpt from an excellent interview:
"ENSURE THAT FINDING AND DEVELOPING THE BEST IDEAS STAYS AT THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING YOU DO
An early break for Sproxton and Lord was making animated shorts for BBC Children’s Television. Their first successful character was a stop-frame animated plasticine character called Morph. The launch of British TV station Channel 4 back in 1982 proved an important catalyst when it began commissioning animation for a grown-up audience, and the pair began experimenting with animating recorded conversations of real people--a groundbreaking technique. Aardman’s subsequent Lip Sync series for Channel 4 included Creature Comforts--the Oscar-winning short made by Nick Park, creator of Wallace & Gromit, who joined Aardman in 1985.
"In the early days we had an accountant who’d say 'Just do the best work you can and the money will look after itself,' and that’s broadly how it still works today," Sproxton continues. "Though as a business we’re much larger in scale now, we’re not big and corporate--that’s just not us. We’re not just finance-driven. We’re about trying to get the best out of people, getting everyone to muck in, recognizing that everyone’s creative and encouraging them to be so. It’s all about coming up with the best creative ideas."
full post here:
http://www.fastcocreate.com/1680299/how-to-grow-while-staying-insanely-creati...

Excerpt & you can read the full post here:
http://christineweitbrecht.com/?p=373&goback=%2Egde_135781_member_103384278
Fascinating article by Erik Kain:
"The film version of Suzanne Collins’s first novel, The Hunger Games, topped $155 million at the box office its opening weekend, making it the third highest debut of all time.
Obviously the economics of the film itself are working out just as planned, and everyone involved in the project can rest assured that the second and third books will be similarly adapted for the silver screen.
But the economics of Panem itself are another matter entirely. The future dystopian society built on the ashes of what was once the United States looks remarkably different from our own world. A high-tech, wealthy Rome 2.0 sits at the epicenter of twelve (actually thirteen) Districts which supply the Capitol City with its resources and wealth, from energy needs to food to electronics, and even “peace keepers.”
Spoilers for the entire series may be included in the following post..."
1. Markets Are More Efficient Than Command Economies
2. Globalism Only Works If You Ditch The Extraction Model
3. Economic Inequality Is Bad For Business
4. War Drains Economic Resources
5. Technology Can Be Used For Good Or Evil
By Kevin C. Tofel Mar. 26, 2012
"Over this past weekend, “The Hunger Games” set the highest opening weekend for a non-sequel, raking in an estimated $155 million at the box office. That’s a ton of tickets and a chunk of them were sold online and on smartphones. Fandango, one of the first movie ticket sales sites, shared data from the weekend as “The Hunger Games” pushed its platform to new heights.
According to Fandango, its service accounted for 22 percent of all tickets for “The Hunger Games” this weekend. That tops the prior record-holder, 2011′s “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2,” at 19 percent of all ticket sales. Over the weekend, Fandango peaked at 17 ticket sales per second for “The Hunger Games” and on Sunday morning, the movie still accounted for 90 percent of all Fandango sales...."
Read Christy's full post here: