So I didn't get the development funding for Tom. Here's what Screen South said:
The panel agreed that your previous work is both exciting and innovative; however they felt that this project would struggle to compete in the current market place and that you should concentrate on developing something lighter which would serve you better as a stepping stone from 'Ten Thousand Pictures of You' in terms of your career.
This is more or less what they said at the panel interview. Of course, I've no right to expect support for any given project, so fair enough. I do wish, however, that purse-string holders would stop hiding behind this oft-trotted-out notion of what "the current market place" wants or doesn't want. If you like a project, be bold and support it regardless of whether or not it ticks some boxes. If you don't, have the courage to say, I don't like it. Don't just point over to everyone else and say don't blame me, it's them, they won't go and see it because they've already seen a vampire film this decade...
So, back to the old freezerinos. They want more like Ten Thousand Pictures of You. Nice of them to be so concerned about my career path... but what if I don't want to be 'that bloke who makes silly surreal pixilations'? Hmm... wonder what they're going to make of my existential world war one zombie horror?
The panel agreed that your previous work is both exciting and innovative; however they felt that this project would struggle to compete in the current market place and that you should concentrate on developing something lighter which would serve you better as a stepping stone from 'Ten Thousand Pictures of You' in terms of your career.
This is more or less what they said at the panel interview. Of course, I've no right to expect support for any given project, so fair enough. I do wish, however, that purse-string holders would stop hiding behind this oft-trotted-out notion of what "the current market place" wants or doesn't want. If you like a project, be bold and support it regardless of whether or not it ticks some boxes. If you don't, have the courage to say, I don't like it. Don't just point over to everyone else and say don't blame me, it's them, they won't go and see it because they've already seen a vampire film this decade...
So, back to the old freezerinos. They want more like Ten Thousand Pictures of You. Nice of them to be so concerned about my career path... but what if I don't want to be 'that bloke who makes silly surreal pixilations'? Hmm... wonder what they're going to make of my existential world war one zombie horror?
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