{"id":2143,"date":"2011-11-04T01:16:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T05:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2011-11-04T01:16:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T05:16:51","slug":"the-grannies-and-the-cuban-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/2011\/11\/04\/the-grannies-and-the-cuban-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grannies and the Cuban Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The four Montreal grannies who helped shoot our pitch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Documentary film funding is not what it used to be. With broadcast windows few and far between and cutbacks everywhere, we doc-makers are turning to other sources, using other methods. And one of the new ways is web-based participatory, or crowd funding. This week I am participating in the Cuban Hat on-line pitch<\/a> in the framework of the Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montr\u00e9al.<\/a><\/p>\n

GRANNY POWER<\/a>, the project I am pitching (see the video pitch here on Vimeo<\/a>) together with my colleagues, is a feature length English-language film on the Raging Grannies. This film has been in the works for eight years \u2013 and it might as well be crowd funded<\/a>, because no English-language broadcaster will support it. Could it be that politicized elderly ladies are not the flavour of the month?<\/p>\n

The Grannies form a very original protest movement, singing for social justice, peace and environment. They will celebrate their 25th anniversary next summer. The film portrays the movement, but also opens a window on the challenges of remaining active as a citizen as you grow older. Our main characters are between 65 and 80.<\/p>\n

Checking out the projects and pitches <\/a>presented at Cuban Hat is interesting, and the more people vote, the greater the chance that the best projects will become finalists and have a chance to win post production services. Hope you can find the time!<\/p>\n

Tobi Elliott<\/a>, who helps with this blog, is one of the producers of the Granny Film. It was her idea to pitch Granny Power to the Cuban Hat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Documentary film funding is not what it used to be. With broadcast windows few and far between and cutbacks everywhere, we doc-makers are turning to other sources, using other methods. And one of the new ways is web-based participatory, or crowd funding. This week I am participating in the Cuban Hat on-line pitch in the … Continue reading The Grannies and the Cuban Hat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11,4,5],"tags":[630,117,631,222,629,627,633,626,636,634,635,632,201,821,275,202,628],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary-debates","category-english","category-general","category-raging-grannies","tag-activism","tag-advocacy","tag-ageism","tag-cinema-politica","tag-crowdfunding","tag-cuban-hat","tag-environment","tag-granny-power","tag-occupy-ottawa","tag-occupy-toronto","tag-occupy-vancouver","tag-peace","tag-protest","tag-raging-grannies","tag-ridm","tag-social-justice","tag-solidarity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialdoc.net\/magnus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}