EMS Documentary Red Carpet Premiere California

The RFP

It has been nothing short of legal battles and bureaucratic mess, but I am withholding the pessimism that many people have and replacing it with as much optimism about change with our new leadership in AMR... It may not be the answer to all problems, but it is better than the last 5 years I have been here. I would hate for AMR to lose the contract, but I also know that the fire based system doesn't work for all cities, so what can you do... Run the private system better... hence the new leadership at AMR... Mike Taigman! We have an opportunity to prove we can do better, it is time to show it!

Ted
 
VentMedic said:
I grew up in Fire-Based EMS. I have my opinions both good and bad about it. I have expressed my views on many other lengthy threads as AJ and Rid have. My position is not so much with what agency provides the service as it is about the education of the providers.

I just happen to have a home in Alameda county as well as Florida and have been following the battle of the EMS agencies in the area as they scramble for contracts.
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Ah. I never knew you had a home in the bay area, I thought you traveled for business. Beautiful area.

Thanks for the clarification. I grew up in Simi Valley where AMR has been the 911 provider with their own medics, it is all I have known until I started working in LA county.
 
Try sending your movie to HULU as you may well know they are on the rise and while yes there is a ton of stuff on there it might not hurt to try. There are also tons of documentary sites out there- I am a documentary freak- that you could post to. I have learned a lot about some weird things out there watching free documentaries. If it is free people will watch it.

If you want to raise money- not a lot I know- buy a good burner and some decent blanks and burn, burn, burn, burn, burn. People will buy a DVD just to help the cause and you can mail them cheap seeing that you have a production company (maybe).

The reason I suggest the arduous task of burning cheap DVD's in your spare time for what will bring a very small margin of profit is that I have bought some before to help small time filmmakers earn that little bit extra- plus I have a hard copy to show my friends!!!!

A few years back I was freediving avidly and couldn't get my hands on enough material. Freediving is not well known in the US as a competative sport- mostly due to tight insurance regulations here, understandably. My first freediving video I purchased was $24.95 plus $6.50 s&h. When it arrived it was in a generic case with the title written on it with a sharpie.

I put it in the DVD player only to find that it was not a region 1. I put it in my Mac tweaked it and changed the region code, burned it and back into the DVD player. It was decent quality but something wasn't right. I felt like I was missing a bunch of stuff and a friend could not even get it to play and another was talking about footage in the movie I had not even seen.

I had to rip the movie, decode it, break it apart, put it back together, re-render the whole d#amn thing before I could finally watch it- but I was supporting my fellow freedivers in a still very slow growing community. Someone not in the community would have pitched a fit but we have to support each other.

The next DVD was the same price but had a label!!! I had to change the region again but so what. Now the filmmaker has won some awards. Check it out if you like.

http://www.performancefreediving.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=23&products_id=42

Anyway, I will buy one. Also if you ever need help I love editing- it's my dream job.
 
jfz6 said:
Try sending your movie to HULU as you may well know they are on the rise and while yes there is a ton of stuff on there it might not hurt to try. There are also tons of documentary sites out there- I am a documentary freak- that you could post to. I have learned a lot about some weird things out there watching free documentaries. If it is free people will watch it.

If you want to raise money- not a lot I know- buy a good burner and some decent blanks and burn, burn, burn, burn, burn. People will buy a DVD just to help the cause and you can mail them cheap seeing that you have a production company (maybe).

The reason I suggest the arduous task of burning cheap DVD's in your spare time for what will bring a very small margin of profit is that I have bought some before to help small time filmmakers earn that little bit extra- plus I have a hard copy to show my friends!!!!

A few years back I was freediving avidly and couldn't get my hands on enough material. Freediving is not well known in the US as a competative sport- mostly due to tight insurance regulations here, understandably. My first freediving video I purchased was $24.95 plus $6.50 s&h. When it arrived it was in a generic case with the title written on it with a sharpie.

I put it in the DVD player only to find that it was not a region 1. I put it in my Mac tweaked it and changed the region code, burned it and back into the DVD player. It was decent quality but something wasn't right. I felt like I was missing a bunch of stuff and a friend could not even get it to play and another was talking about footage in the movie I had not even seen.

I had to rip the movie, decode it, break it apart, put it back together, re-render the whole d#amn thing before I could finally watch it- but I was supporting my fellow freedivers in a still very slow growing community. Someone not in the community would have pitched a fit but we have to support each other.

The next DVD was the same price but had a label!!! I had to change the region again but so what. Now the filmmaker has won some awards. Check it out if you like.

http://www.performancefreediving.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=23&products_id=42

Anyway, I will buy one. Also if you ever need help I love editing- it's my dream job.
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For sure this makes sense... I will work on this for sure...
 
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