Arin Crumley

Arin Crumley’s award-winning Four Eyed Monsters was the first feature-length movie released on YouTube. Millions of viewers have engaged across multiple mediums with the film and complementary online
series. The film screened theatrically around the world using the first location-based request system for independent film. Integrating these methods with subsequent R&D projects, Arin co-founded OpenIndie.com to bring this technology to all filmmakers and build an indie theatrical network that is curated by audience demand.

What Arin will be doing at DIY DAYS

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Creative Financing Workshop

Over the past few years filmmaker Arin Crumley has consulted and interviewed dozens of independent filmmakers. Distilling the recurring, common problems they face he submitted these issues to a variety of experts from various fields to analyze using their unique knowledge and experience. Their findings were compiled at a recent think tank in New York City, resulting in practical solutions creators of all kinds can use to address their common problems. Following a presentation of this information Arin will moderate a workshop designed for attendees to apply these new strategies to their own projects. The potential is for participants to have an immediate breakthrough in their approach to financing and monetizing their work.

DIY DAYS asks Arin

What are you currently working on that you’re excited about?

OpenIndie is in talks with a projector manufacturer about partnering to create a worldwide indie screen network. This could allow the ability of films collecting requests through OpenIndie.com to influence the curation of films in local screens. Additionally, years of research and development is being used to develop a new system of exchanging services and resources for the purposes of creating projects. The goal is to make a creative environment fueled by an alternate currency that allows more projects to get made utilizing more of the abundant talent and resources that exist. Shooting I’ve done in the last ten years is also coalescing into a new film targeting a 2012 release.

What are some of your favorite sites and / or mobile apps and brief why?

Nationbuilder.com helps you with the growing need of communicating with large numbers of people. TheSuperFluid.com allows you to mobilize your social network for any task or project you can think of. Kickstarter & IndieGogo.com continue to be awesome crowd funding apps. Workbookproject.com & HopeForFilm.com continue to be excellent
sources for filmmaking guidance. And (of course) OpenIndie.com for the promise of a new era of democratic discovery and distribution of indie films. I also bought an iPad for a Burning Man art project recently and downloaded every video app I could find and discovered that there are no slamdunk amazing video apps on the iPad. But I do really like CAMikaze Lite which trades the faces of two people in real time. It’s completely hilarious and hours of fun. I’m also a big fan of Vloop, it allows you to create a video loop on the fly of any video you shoot or transfer. I’ve been using it at Occupy Wall Street events to play back videos from my iPad, which I wear mounted to my chest.

What’s are you currently watching, reading or playing?

I currently don’t own a television but recently watched the Bill Cunningham New York documentary on Netflix and really loved Enter the Void and Tree of Life. I’ve been looking at a lot of TedTalks recently, along with
Occupy Wall Street videos.