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:
“A village seems thus, where its able-bodied men are all plowing the ocean together, as a common field. In North Truro the women and girls may sit at their doors, and see where their husbands and brothers are harvesting their mackerel fifteen or twenty miles off, on the sea, with hundreds of white harvest wagons, just as in the country the farmers’ wives sometimes see their husbands working in a distant hillside field. But the sound of no dinner-horn can reach the fisher’s ear.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“You should look straight at a film; that’s the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.”
—Werner Herzog (b. 1942)
“A maker of idols is never an idolater.”
—Chinese proverb.