Reason #175 why Mark Fischbach is someone I admire as a human in the arts.
This article caught my eye as I was about to start writing and its wanted to talk a bit about it/just share that this is happening.
Essentially, Mark wants to fight for accessibility when it comes to filmmakers and the ability to access YouTube Distribution without them having to give up some of the rights to their own work.
He's proposing it to YT execs as a way that the content and films would stay and loop back to YouTube itself. That in the end, it would still be beneficial to allow this as a system and not just an exception for Iron Lung.
The article goes into some details of how Mark is trying to get distribution done for the film.
And I still love that he's printing the DVDs himself rather than going through a third party.
He cant build a system by himself, and he's trying to convince YouTube that this system would be well worth it. I really hope he's able to convince them.
Like almost everything, it wouldn't work for everyone, but this would make the process so much more accessible for filmmakers in ways it hasn't been before.
And I believe we have been getting hints of it being successful already! Especially with Indie Animation. A lot of Animators or Writers or entire crews have been fighting for decades against the mainstream studios and have had to fly through loops to get half the rights and only a smidgen of the story they want to tell out.
However, especially with what happened with The Owl House, Disney, and Dana Terrace, and then how she joined up with Glitch Productions, who have been developing projects like The Amazing Digital Circus, Murder Drones, and (Dana Terrace's) Knights of Guinevere with MASSIVE success and more than a loved reception. Glitch also has many more projects as a result. And they arent the only ones doing it. The number of indie animations have been skyrocketing in the best way, especially when Big Name Studios began bringing their crews, writers, and artists to their breaking points.
I think I might just be optimistic about the future of art, but I have too much faith in the grit of every artist fighting for the rights to create.
I've had enough rambling, i just really wanted to share what I found.
