Sunday, December 4, 2016

FST Update #15

We have started our festival run finally! Jessica, Conner (co-producer I asked to help with the festival run), and I met to start discussing our festival run, and then we ended up starting submissions. So far we have submitted to NFFTY (National Film Festival for Talented Youth), Tribeca Film Festival, BLOW-UP International Arthouse Film Fest, Savannah Film Festival, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, and deadCenter Film Festival. Other festivals in our run currently are LAFF (Los Angeles Film Festival), DC Shorts Film Festival, and Washington West Film Festival. We will submit to more as they open. Festivals on this list include Camden International Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, Heartland Film Festival, Cucalorus Film Festival, Virginia Film Festival, Portland Film Festival, River Run Film Festival, and more! Our goal is to start nationally and then become local. I hope that our strategy bodes us well as we continue to submit our film. After seeing it on a bigger screen at the End-Of-Semester screening, I was really excited to start working on this run. This is my first time being in charge of a festival run, and I think it will be worthwhile. I'm so thankful to have done this project, and hope that other audiences will receive it well!