Topanga Film Institute supports Scott Vineberg’s Better Faster Media collective
In its continuing missive to align with likeminded mediamakers, Urs Baur, Topanga Film Institute founder, recently attended a roundtable brainstorming and strategy session with a handful of Topangans led by Scott Vineberg, founder of Better Faster Media.
Better Faster Media is a Topanga think tank with a vision to create region-specific programming and events with an eye to create a “disaggregated network” that would bring its vision to festivals, public spaces, the organization’s clubhouse and other venues. Over the next months, Vineberg envisions on-going strategy development that will ultimately lead to the setting of an agenda, an action plan and assignment of goals for forward movement of the organization.
Currently, Vineberg and the group are working out consensus on the general plan, creating a detailed budget and structure and working on establishing a transparent means of recognizing and tracking cash and in-kind investment of time and/or resources – as the precursory step to approaching sponsors.
Where the Topanga Film Institute seeks to act as an educational, mentorship, networking and creative exchange conduit for its members and sympathizers — with an on-going slate of educational and networking events – Better Faster Media seeks to create a pilot or other dramatic depiction of visioneering.
The organization envisions meeting, mind-mapping and moving forward through meetings, ultimately leading to a fully-staffed organization, a physical presence in the community, a prominent web presence with interactive components that integrate with relevant utilities and communities.
“The Topanga Film Institute looks forward to working with Scott and Better Faster Media in many of its creative endeavors, events, and in any other way we can think of pooling our respective energies and synergies. It is inspiring to know that right down the street, yet another creative collective is planning production of not only socially progressive content, but building the foundation for an expanded creative community,” Baur said.
