{"id":2555,"date":"2008-05-01T10:41:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T10:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/01\/film-festival-query\/"},"modified":"2008-05-01T10:41:57","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T10:41:57","slug":"film-festival-query","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/01\/film-festival-query\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Festival Query"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having suggested an <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/04\/a_proscience_film_festival_why.php\">on-line pro-science film festival<\/a> a little while ago, I should report that there are discussions underway (or at least in the works) about trying to make something happen. If it goes anywhere, it may look different than the original suggestion, but I&#8217;m kind of curious about one aspect of the original idea.<\/p>\n<p>If you recall, my original suggestion was that we could arrange a film festival using YouTube for the submission and distribution of entries, and basically passing the hat to get a prize pool. I still sort of like the idea of funding it via direct contributions rather than some sort of sponsorship. I&#8217;m not sure it would work, though, so my question is:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If we did a grass-roots film festival funded by reader donations, would you contribute?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Note that this is <strong>not<\/strong> an announcement of anything, nor is it a request for a firm commitment. I&#8217;m just sort of curious as to whether it would be feasible to get a significant amount of money to fund the production of short films promoting science to a general audience from direct donations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having suggested an on-line pro-science film festival a little while ago, I should report that there are discussions underway (or at least in the works) about trying to make something happen. If it goes anywhere, it may look different than the original suggestion, but I&#8217;m kind of curious about one aspect of the original idea.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/01\/film-festival-query\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Film Festival Query<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,37,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-pop_culture","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}