imdb credit updates

Ten years. There is a ten year gap between today and my most recent posted project title on imdb.com. Granted, I haven't even tried to add a title since 2005. There are some little complications such as which links may be accepted proof that a movie exists, which of the approved film festivals it may have screened at, or who is distributing it or presenting it. Unless a title is part of an established writer or director or actor's body of work, it can be included even if it has fallen under the radar. But the criteria is apparently a little more stiff when it comes to the rest of us. There is a certain fairness to that. Another way around it is if a number of previously unseen works are collected in a volume and marketed. But someone else' profile was brought to my attention recently - a former collaborator I do not get long with whose listed imdb credits were as sparse as my own until very recently. Apparently it is easier to get new titles added - even clearly bogus titles - if you a) run your own film festival for a few years, and/or b) master the internet to a point where you can fudge a few facts. When I should be thinking about the projects ahead and moving forward, I can't help feeling I should have made more effort to list a few titles from 2005, Porno the Clown from 2007, and maybe some of the quickies I've done in the last few years. This is the sort of silly pressure nipping at my heels. One would think that with the movie industry changing there will be more internet-related outlets that will have to be acknowledged as distribution of a short or other film or TV project. This of course is something I have not looked into in just under a decade, even though I pretty much feel that if I bring in a producer on another movie it will have to be someone who can sort that out and make sure the title is on imdb. There are a few projects I have done on film and others that certainly have more substance than a few titles noted above that I have seen listed. Can you imagine someone pointing a camera at her boyfriend, letting him rant, and calling it a documentary? Maybe it's not as scandalous as I make it out to be. I guess I just can't stand con artists. Unless they are conning for me. To be fair, how man times have I failed to submit a movie to Mediawave or other festivals? Today is this year's deadline for Mediawave and I don't know if I'll submit. I have not embraced the business of show. Yet I am facing the specter of new expense of HD transfers for very old movies of mine that were shot on film and which can't measure up in their current digital form when compared to HDV home video camcorder material. Maybe having money would be another way people can cheat their way into circumventing the red tape and getting credits listed. I suppose a person could also engage someone to create a wiki profile and add those titles and a bio, since users may not be allowed to submit their own profile information. But isn't that exhausting? And if you can finally google yourself to see how "famous" you are, would it count? It is going a long way to believing your own hype. Unless people are just using it as a sort of modern business card. The irony is that legitimacy is just so potentially false.