Article and Visions 2013.

I found this article a little out dated but a great history of film festivals.  I would have never known that the first film festival was in Italy in 1938 and that Cannes was created to counter this festival.   I would have thought that as famous as Cannes Film Festival is, that the Italian film festival would be more well known.   I remembered in my readings that Mussolini as a cruel dictator, I would have never guessed he had a love for the arts and wanted this festival.  I also did not know that the first undergraduate  films were not shown until the late 1970's.    I also found it very interesting that  Sundance was called  United States Film Festival.  Me being an Steven Soderbergh fan I did not know that his first indie type of film  "Sex Lies and Videotape" was debuted at Sundance.  One of the other items I noticed in the article was how it takes time for festivals to really pick up numbers and attract people to the festival.  It took Sundance's rival 5 years to make massive gains at Sundance's numbers.  The most interesting thing I took away from this article is how some major cities are underground hubs for film.  I lived just south of Seattle for 6 years and would have never known that it was a major underground film city.  I tried to find items like that and everyone told me that if you wanted to find stuff like that you had to go to LA, or NYC to find it.  I know now that Atlanta, Seattle, Austin and other big cities have these underground film communities, that make me want to find some in Wilmington.  This article has peeked my interest into finding out more about this underground film communities, so I can try to branch out and learn from these films.
For visions this year I want to learn how to become a better civilian leader.  I know my military style of leadership can only go so far and can at times make people feel intimated.  I know i cannot tell someone to do pushups for their mistake and forget it happened.  I will however take my drive that I have learned from the military to stay on top of my team and allow us to have deadlines that will be meet, a steady trusting environment where people can spread ideas where no one will think or not share ideas, and a fun community.  One of the main things I learned being from my mentors in the army was there is a time to be strict and to work hard, but there is also times when it should be fun while you work hard.  I want to learn how to make it hard work seem fun and enjoyable to my team.  I also feel that this year I will not feel so out of place.  Last semester I kind of felt lost because people did not delegate task's that clearly.  I feel that with me knowing the larger picture now I can clearly delegate task's to everyone equally and not have one person over worked and others not worked enough.