In Variety Today
Hi Folks,
As a follow up to my prior e-mail on the fact that Americanizing Shelley has obtained distribution, here come a couple of articles from Variety on that.
a) http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117959843?categoryid=13&cs=1
Titled: IDream nabs Shelley Rights
&
b) http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117959839?categoryid=13&cs=1
Titled: IDream Will take Pride In Shelley
Both came out today.
Variety as you know is the most prestigeous mainstream press for Hollywood.
Ok, ok before you guys start getting worked up on my obvious bombarding you with AS from my part, I will back off momentarily and mention that all this NOISE is AFTER the film has been COMPLETED and GOTTEN distribution, not BEFORE the film has EVEN STARTED or BEEN COMPLETED but nothing came out of it, as generally happens with Indian American movies and NOISEMAKERS
Sincerely,
Vivek “it is not the amount of noise, but when to make it” Kumar
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
While I can appreciate you promoting this film, I’m not quite sure if it was necessary to diss other Indian-American filmmakers as “noisemakers”. We all know it’s not easy for Indian-American filmmakers out here. Finding distribution or even financing for our stories is not an easy task, and we all know that more often than not, to be able to really sell your script or idea, one has to get out there and tell people about the film. The business demands that if you’re shopping a script around, you work to publicize it and generate buzz around it. Same goes for a film that is not yet completed, and is seeking distribution. It’s very pretentious and rude to belittle the remaining, often struggling Indian-American filmmakers as mere “noisemakers” especially when we all should be united here in supporting and encouraging them to fight the environment and make their presence felt.