Review of 'On The Edge' in the Austin Chronicle

An interesting review in the Austin Chronicle of my film:

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re: Review of 'On The Edge' in the Austin Chronicle

I know Toddy, and I think it's worth noting that she's an MFA student in filmmaking at UT-Austin, so her review should be read as something coming from someone training to be a professional filmmaker.I guess I sort of bring this up because I'm teaching an undergrad "Making Alternative Media" class in the Radio-TV-Film department. While I thought I would get a bunch of students chomping at the bit to media activist work, I'm surprised at their lack of political engagement. I screened a part of the old "Showdown in Seattle" documentary a few weeks back, and my students snickered at the low production values.While I don't think Toddy is as disengaged as my students, I do think if you have access to nice equipment and training, production flaws pop out pretty quickly. Unfortunately, I haven't seen your movie, so I don't know what post-effects she's talking about, but I do suspect you might have done something that looks cool to you that they tell students not to do at UT.

re: Review of 'On The Edge' in the Austin Chronicle

...sorry about the lack of line breaks, I thought they were turned on in MT.

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