Pat Jaffe, member of directors guild, educator
As a filmmaker and as an educator I find this proposed law onerous for
young directors. When I taught at NYU it was always our aim to make
the medium accessible to the largest number of people. We initiated
projects in which we distributed cameras to senior citizen centers;
youth centers etc to encourage people to make films about their own
concerns. Finally we get to the point where the medium is accessible
to all and the city wants to curtail the right of young people to tape
on the streets of new york. Sure they can be troublesome but do you
know how much a million dollars worth of insurance costs - about
$3000/year! Encourage not discourage!
- posted Tue., Jul 24, 2007 at 1:10am
- filed in Public Comments
- 1 Comment
August 1st, 2007 at 11:49 am
Pat,
You were a great teacher ! I was in your first year Editing Class NYU grad film.
Hope you can make it out to the Shoot Out In Union Square Thursday Aug 2nd Lunchtime.
Owen Plotkin
NYC SHOOT-OUT FOR FREEDOM
AT UNION SQUARE
THURS Aug 2nd 1130 AM till 2 PM
BRING A CAMERA - TAKE PHOTOS - TELL A FRIEND
Photographers, filmmakers, local residents, and tourists face
serious restrictions by the NYC Mayor’s Office proposed law.
The City plans to enact legislation THIS Friday. The NEW LAW will require any group of two
or more people who want to use a CAMERA (still or moving) in any public location
to have a permit and proof of a one million dollar liability insurance policy.
SPREAD THE WORD
THE SOUL OF NYC HAS ALWAYS BEEN ILLUMINATED BY IT’S STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
DON’T STAND IDLY BY AND WATCH “THE DYING OF THE LIGHT”
SEND A MESSAGE TO THE MAYOR.
Come on. Bring a camera and your lunch to UNION SQUARE Thurs Aug 2nd 1130 till 2 PM
Robert Frank William Klein Diane Arbus Garry Winogrand Joel Meyerowitz Thomas Struth Roy Colmer William Gedney David Beckerman Jeff Spirer Weegee Andre Kertesz Alfred Stieglitz . . .
Organized by :
The Ad Hoc Task Force Against Really Bad Rules and Regulations
in association with
freedom loving people like you and me
to volunteer or get info 212 367 7701 adhoc@thenowcorporation.com
just show up with a camera and start shooting. thanks.
owen plotkin