from IndieCollect
If you are a filmmaker living in the Los Angeles area, IndieCollect is offering to inventory your film and sound materials — whether in your home, garage, office, or private storage facility.
Who Needs Who Needs an Inventory? Every filmmaker!
- Motion Picture elements degrade, especially if they are not properly stored. (And that’s putting aside disasters like the recent LA fires.)
- Significant indie films need to be archived while you are alive so they survive after you die.
- No archive will take a collection without knowing what’s in it. An inventory is an essential prerequisite.
Who Will Conduct the Inventory? Ed Carter
Ed Carter (pictured above) joined the IndieCollect team this month as our Archive & Restoration Curator. He spent decades at the Academy Film Archive, saving and documenting thousands of films, including The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe and Cane River, which were both restored by IndieCollect in association with the Academy.
While at the Archive, Ed documented nearly all the films rescued from the DuArt film lab — a 3-year process. He has also conducted onsite inventories for the National Steinbeck Center and for California-based indie filmmakers, such as Rob Nilsson.
Inventory as Therapy (but cheaper)
Creating a film inventory on your own is a tough slog. But IndieCollect makes it fun. And it’s so satisfying when it’s done!
Inventories are just the first step. Acting as an envoy to multiple archives, IndieCollect can help you find the right home for your work and help secure your legacy.
Sign Up Now! (before Ed gets overbooked)
Add your name to the list by clicking on this Google form. We don’t need to ask a lot of questions up front.
Just these:
- Full Name, age, email & cell phone
- Where do you live? — Zip code will do for now
- Where are most of your film / sound elements stored? — If different from your home address, provide Zip code
- Your IMDb listing or website
We want to handle requests on a first-come/first-serve basis, but we will prioritize older filmmakers.
Stand Up and Be Counted
Thousands of important indie films remain outside of any archive. We consider these homeless orphans at risk of degradation and loss. Many will fall between the cracks without our taking a census of what needs to be saved.
So stand up and let us count you. Saving your work for the future is our mission.
Very best,
Sandra Schulberg, Kirsten Larvick, Ed Carter & Matt Hoffman
IndieCollect
