What To Do With Your Hands... At a Film Festival or Awards Show

Are handshakes ever okay? Should festivals have workplace rules? Should you use your hands to slap someone who made a joke about your wife? What else happened at the Oscars and Aputure’s new releases… In this episode, we talk about… Challenge of returning to extreme networking socializing events The end of handshakes as we know it Creating a PSA and implied HR rules to make film festivals safer for all Acknowledging public spaces can bring up pandemic anxiety Game of comparisons surrounding Will Smith slapping Chris Rock Avoiding assumptions about the headspace or intentions of other people Advice for filmmakers: Always do your research and mitigate your expectations for screenings and awards Free speech and whether a joke is punching across vs. punching down Other notable highlights from the Oscars Aputure’s launch of new tube lights and mat lights Links to Resources: https://www.nofilmschool.com/money-survey Find No Film School everywhere: On the Web https://nofilmschool.com/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/nofilmschool Twitter https://twitter.com/nofilmschool YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/nofilmschool Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nofilmschool Get your questions answered on the podcast by emailing [email protected]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices