BANDING TOGETHER: NEW COOPERATIVE SOLUTIONS TO PERENNIAL ECONOMIC PROBLEMS

By Amy Whitaker and Amber He

Arts organizations can access economies of scope, overcoming some of the key challenges in managing costs, sharing risk, and accessing capital. These advantages of resource sharing across activities—including by gathering people—can support the specificity and individuality of artistic practice. The benefits go well beyond the artists to support lively, vibrant, heterogeneous cities.

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December 21, 2021 0

CAN TWO HEADS LEAD? THE ART VERSUS THE COMMERCE ORIENTED MANAGER IN FILM PROJECTS

By Joris Ebbers and Nachoem Wijnberg

Film projects have a dual-leadership structure, based on a division of tasks between the director and the producer, with the former predominantly responsible for the artistic and the latter for the commercial aspects of the film. The 1st Assistant Director (1^st AD), who is positioned hierarchically below and between these dual leaders, plays an important role in managing conflicts between art and commerce.

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May 30, 2017 0