Facing the errors in my practice... editing is long days facing this horror... which is rather too strong a word ha! Anyway - discussions around Sound, Framing, Focus, Performance, Cognitive Eye Movements, Camera Movement, Music and Editing. many podcasts seem to ignore the harsh personal realities of the filmmaking process so I wanted to be honest and open. Unfortunately when I first recorded this... I had not set up the audio properly! So this is the second version - less emotional, more considered.

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Looking for laurels? It ain't your fault. The far-reaching theories about cultural producers - by Pierre Bourdieu - have been applied to Hollywood. For me this has a lot to say about the function and purpose of film festivals!

Cattani, G., Ferriani, S. and Allison, P.D. (2014) ‘Insiders, outsiders, and the struggle for consecration in cultural fields’, American Sociological Review, 79(2), pp. 258–281. doi:10.1177/0003122414520960

Cattani, G. and Ferriani, S. (2008) ‘A core/periphery perspective on individual creative performance: Social Networks and cinematic achievements in the Hollywood film industry’, Organization Science, 19(6), pp. 824–844. doi:10.1287/orsc.1070.0350.

Bourdieu, P. (1993) The field of cultural production: Essays on art and literature. Cambridge: Columbia University Press.

Today we chat with Dan Vendigo - aspiring and busy, ambitious & realistic, procrastination & innovation. An older filmmaker compares notes with the new wave. What do young filmmakers expect from their kit and their industry?