Village Film Maker
"Mike is a community filmmaker; he calls himself the village film maker. His advocacy films, such as recent ones on dog owners rights, come across as moderate and reasonable in tone which makes their advocacy all the more effective." Katerina Korolkevich-Rubbo
A recent dog owners rights clip: Down on Dogs
Helping Olive to blog led to Rubbo mastering short film making skills, initially so as to be able to post Olive movie clips on YouTube.
A Youtube clip of Olive: Olive's greeting to Youtube:
There are currently over 180 viewable online, with total views approaching 1 million. Starting crudely, the films became more polished with time. By the time Olive died, and Rubbo had become a cycling advocate, his YouTube offerings had become more refined. Most of his films are centred in or around the village where he lives with his family, Avoca Beach, NSW an hour and a half north of Sydney
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Famous quotes containing the words village, film and/or maker:
“Every day or two I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homoeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The woman’s world ... is shown as a series of limited spaces, with the woman struggling to get free of them. The struggle is what the film is about; what is struggled against is the limited space itself. Consequently, to make its point, the film has to deny itself and suggest it was the struggle that was wrong, not the space.”
—Jeanine Basinger (b. 1936)
“A maker of idols is never an idolater.”
—Chinese proverb.