Our good friend Scott Kirsner of Cinematech recently passed along word of a new conference event for filmmakers. The Conversation will be held on October 17-18 in San Francisco, and is aimed at talking with, not at, filmmakers. They already have an impressive roster of presenters lined up, and it’s starting to look like a very interesting event. Paul Harrill of Self-Reliant Filmmaking has written up a good article on the conference. Or go directly to the source and get registered!

“…a lot of times at film festivals, the discussions about new technologies, new tools, and new business models wind up as a side-show to the main event, which is watching movies. We wanted to do something where mapping out the future and getting up to speed with what other creators are doing would be the central purpose. The second dynamic was that there used to be this great event that happened twice in Montreal, called Digimart. Lance Weiler, Peter Broderick, Tiffany Shlain and I all spoke at the second Digimart a few years ago. It was a great gathering… but it didn’t continue after 2006, and we wanted to keep its spirit alive and take it to a new geography.”