Is there a recipe to making a great viral? How should you treat treatments? What’s it like to grow up on the set of Blade Runner. . .or Jackass? We learned all that and more last month at the SoHo House in New York, where a dozen of the industry’s finest came together to laugh, kvetch and inspire each other with their experiences on set and off.
participants: Dante Ariola, MJZ / Craig Gillespie, MJZ / Michael Haussman, HSI and Person Films / Jeff Labbe, Sonny London / Dave Meyers, @radical / Phil Morrison, Epoch / Noam Murro, Biscuit Filmworks / Jake Scott, RSA / Luc Schurgers of Minivegas, Anonymous Content / David Shane, O Positive / Benzo Theodore, Park Pictures / Stacy Wall, Imperial Woodpecker
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Watch video excerpts from the roundtable
Some of the topics discussed on the table included:
The Recession
Do you want to know who you’re bidding on jobs against?
Passing on and Losing Jobs
Are the Boards Changing?
Treatments, Part 1
Treatments, Part 2
Boxing Directors
The Democratization of Technology
Viral Fever
Jake and the Family Scott
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