Has anyone heard about this? It's a documentary about Craigslist.
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SAN FRANCISCO PREMIERE
24 hours On Craigslist
Dir. Michael Ferris Gibson US 2005
You know Craigslist, it's the secret engine that drives the Bay Area economy, the place you likely found your last job, apartment, car, couch, bandmate, dance lesson, bankruptcy attorney or Friday-night date. Everybody's got a Craigslist story, and filmmaker Michael Ferris Gibson came up with an ingenious idea to find a few of them: He set out to document one random day on Craigslist. What he delivers is a rollicking portrait of the Bay Area in all its eccentric glory - a cross section of folks doing everything fromselling 250 pairs of women's army-surplus pants to everything-they-own (to finance a trip around the world); guys looking for roommates or wives; an Ethel Merman impersonator looking for a back-up band and a strange fellow hoping some hot chicks will show up for his basement sex party. Looking for a support group for your diabetic cat? Need to rent a husband, find a horny poodle, a gay sperm donor or a pre-op transsexual escort? Maybe you need a movie crew (that's right - Gibson's cast, crew and music were all found through Craigslist). Gibson even found what can only be called the Ultimate Craigslist Story, which you've just gotta hear. There may be Craigslists all over the globe at this point, but Craigslist will always be a Bay Area creation, and Gibson's terrific movie is a giddy celebration of the Bay Area and everything we love and hate about it. Find a date on Craigslist, and come and see it!
It isn't surprising to find the venues for this to be so limited. You are probably right about this drawing more heat. A higher profile means, almost by definition, more scrutiny.
it does shine more light on the "erotic services" section of CL. This might cause some hindrance for CL hobbyists and providers. I wonder how this might affect LE and the community?
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"Michael Ferris Gibson has been awake for 24 hours, and the frazzled filmmaker can't think straight after chugging countless cans of soda spiked with extra caffeine.
Should he dispatch camera crews to shoot the Ethel Merman drag queen auditioning drummers for his '70s-style rock band? The penny-pinching foodies seeking comrades for a late-night taqueria tour? The cash-strapped transsexual selling "erotic services" to pay for a sex change? Or the heart-tugging tale of a woman looking for someone to adopt her blind Australian Shepherd dog?
Such are the quandaries of the director of a documentary about Craigslist, the wildly popular Web site where millions of people buy, sell, swap and debate everything from politics and condos to poodles and casual sex. "
Leave it to you babycakes to find this stuff. However, methinks this may be very bad for the erotic services area! You know LE will be waiting with baited breath to get in on the action! Makes me ponder this question:....Wonder if I should go into the Internet Advertising Biz? Wanna kiss anytime soon? Tra
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