July Flame Tom🇵🇸 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️

@tomtificate.bsky.social

Writer and ex-podcaster specializing in anime, comics and film; currently in education for the money, such as it is. Barnacle on the hull of the publishing industry (proofing, editing, etc.). He/him/bi. ADHD. Banner art from MAWS

For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.

The struggle is getting Aussies to support Aus film. When I told offline folks I was going to see Talk to Me at the cinema, the reactions were consistently that Aussie films are shit, a waste of time. I fucking loved that movie, but there's still a perception that if it's not American, it's garbage.

Australia is ready to take advantage of cinema's low-budget genre boom | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games

The box office success of mid-budget genre films like Obsession should be a learning lesson for Australian cinema.

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Hey, folks. There's a @gofundme.com set up for artist Andy Fish, who is going through a very tough fight with two forms of cancer. He and his wife, cartoonist Veronica Fish (my Blackwood series cohorts) could use some help during this very tough time. I'm donating, hope you can. tinyurl.com/4wa86a6c

Donate to Help Andy Fish’s Fight Against Two Cancers, organized by Gina Gabianelli

Help Andy’s Fight Against Two Cancers Meet my cousin Andy Fish, father … Gina Gabianelli needs your support for Help Andy Fish’s Fight Against Two Cancers

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One reason why Bringing Back American Manufacturing will always stay just a meaningless political slogan is that actual industrial workers in 21st century America are overwhelmingly non-white and 'populist' Trump voters would revolt at seeing a bunch of brown people with respectable well paying jobs

Well, it’s invoicing day, and since they’re really apparently not going to pay me for something I wrote for them two months ago, I guess today is the day to post about how @vulture.com fucks over its film freelancers. Long (sorry) thread, with receipts:

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There are 118 feature films, plus galas, talks, podcast recordings, and more at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Our guide to the movies and events worth lining up for.