-When you plan the realization of a film project, what are your objectives?

My objective is to tell a personal story about a compelling story that will try to change the world a little bit, I hope.  I hope that I get an audience to view the book I made.  At the moment, I, and many others are not in charge of the distribution gods who use algorithms to decide whether our projects live or die. I would make an audio book also to deliver a dramatic reading of the book.  And I will sell book rights for the “film” that could be made from this arty and true book.

-With Artificial Intelligence, cinema is undergoing a phase of transformation even more radical than the one that occurred in the 1920s with the transition from silent films to sound. What is your opinion on this?

Yes, I spend a lot of time takling about this in my Greenwich Villlage newspaper and my socia media blogs. Several things happened to indie filmmakers.  We lost our film, the medium, for many years.  When we lost film we lost our theaters our stage for so many centuries.  We now live in a virtual, digital world where we stream out work but the pay is pitiful.  We have allowed these Tech giants to create a world where they have a deal with their billlions of subscribers. The deial is the streamers want to satisfy their subscribers with the cheapest subcription rates,  It is a streaming world where the currency is not really money.  The filmmakers use cash to make their films because the real world deals with cast still.  But what they give us is peanuts not a real wage we can live on.  The steamers deal with streaming which is an excellent and cheap way to transmit films.  Us indie filmmakers and can make a deal on this.  But the deal is not between us.  It is between the streamer Tech Giants and the subscribers. The Producers, Directors we are not in the club.  We are outside of this deal.  Films can come from around the world.  Most of them follow the alogrhthm which is action, sex, violence, prositution and drugs.  It is true that many filmmakers in other countries are left out because they, like we, are trying to make cinema.  The streamers want to make movies that are cheap for them to buy and now they make them also.  This is the game that we must fight.  We will never surrender Cinema.  We will always fight for the truth.  Art films are not suppossed to be boring and expensive.  But art films are cinema and they will never die.  They will live on like jazz and the blues. We travel the same roads.

-To which production or distribution company would you like to propose your new project? Give us a profile, including some examples.

I wrote a book called My Hollywood Circus.  It is a memoir and chronicle of my life making Studio films and Independent Films.  It is funny and it is sad.  It is what cinema should be.  I think there will be an audience who will want to see the behind the scenes.  And to see the roads traveled by a filmmaker.

It will be released like a film this September.  I propose the very world art film distributors should be behind this celebration of film which died in 2004 when my friend at the great Technicolor in New York told me he only did 3 films in 2003.  And he said film is over.  It’s all digital now.  So distributors with a passion for film and a passion to see how this filmmaker keeps it alive. By writing a book. Then an audio book to bring actors to the reading of a book. And then we should make a deal to turn the book into a film. This is the new cinema.  It is alive. 

-WILD FILMMAKER can now “sit at the table with the big players”alongside The Hollywood Reporter and Variety during the Cannes Film Festival, but we have chosen to continue being a Global Cultural Movement with an ethical mission: to bring democracy into cinema, placing the Work of Art at the center of our project rather than Marketing. Do you think we are doing a good job?

Michele and your Wild Filmmakers are doing a great job fighting to keep cinema alive in any way they can.  I would propose nothing short of a revolution in the art world so that todays subversives will take over the mainstream again,  Just like we did in the 60s.