cinemocracy

Thanks for checking out our site and new initiative, Cinemocracy. I hope this site serves as a really great example of democracy as we define it: many voices, one vote. I also hope that your brains are swelling with ideas about how to present what democracy is (or equally important, what democracy isn't) through film. I'm really excited that what started as a heady idea has turned into something concrete. It seemed like a monumental task to find a way to give voice to all of us who won't be on the floor of the Democratic National Convention. But I think we'll be doing that here. And then we will show it to those who will be on that floor in August. Many thanks go out to Mayor John Hickenlooper and the director and staff at the Denver Office of Cultural affairs who back the idea that hearing a multitude of voices on prescient issues is truly an important thing. Check out www.denvergov.org/doca for information on other great cultural initiatives undertaken by the City of Denver.

Okay. I used to work at a contemporary art institution called the Laboratory of Art + Ideas at Belmar (www.belmarlab.org), where our director always said that by not taking ourselves too seriously, we left a lot of room to take what we did at the museum very seriously. And it's true. So I hope this blog will be fun, informative and that I don't take myself too seriously – I'm going to leave the seriousness up to you as you submit films. So email me at gina@cinemocracy.org if you have something interesting, funny or tragically hip to share… or really anything in between.

And in the interest of sharing – check out a film co-produced by a friend: Wesley Willis's Joyrides (www.wesleywillissjoyrides.com). It's playing at Slamdance this year (which I hope to check out while I'm in Utah) but maybe you can get your little hands on a copy. Rock on.