Today I presented a clip from our film via the hearttochange.org site in my History of Documentary class and promoted the end of the semester student screenings on Friday night. We were watching the film, Crude, so it seemed most practical to screen our clip alongside an environmental film and discuss the importance of the issue.
This week I will submit the film to Greentopia FILM festival. I hope to also upload a second clip from our film, which shows the Christian element, to the website. I would like to still have things on our front page, we will just always feature the newest addition first. I plan to work with Taylor to edit the clip and Nico to give me website info, so I can complete this task regularly through the summer.
Monday, April 28, 2014
Monday, April 21, 2014
Week of April 21st
So, I am just realizing I did not post a blog entry last week. Basically, last week I worked on the powerpoint for the class presentation on our marketing, festival and distribution plan. This took some time because I realized one of the festivals I originally selected (Lunafest) had a deadline date which had already past and so I needed to find a new one to replace it. Apparently I wrote the wrong deadline down in my notebook, so that was a mistake totally on my part. I still wanted to find a festival that was aimed directly at women filmmakers, so this just took some time to browse through withoutabox. I also worked on getting our online screener functioning for all our further entries to film festivals. Taylor did most of the work here, by exporting and uploading the right size film because the first two files were way too big for the withoutabox/IMDb upload function. I found out that one of our DVD's was not playing properly, so I contacted the Student Academy Awards to follow up and they said their copy was fine. But, since we did have one problem and the cost is a little less I figured the private online screener option would be our best bet moving forward.
This week I will be submitting to the Citizen Jane film festival. At this point there is little work left because the film is complete and I am just filling out entires as festivals deadlines approach. As far as school screenings go, that is something I plan to work on arranging over the summer for next years curriculum. I have contacts at most of the schools in the area, so I plan to work with those teachers to see if they can help me get approval to show the film in their school.
I kind or want to see what happens with the festival entries before I get too far ahead of myself. I did officially get hired by Environment NC last week and I am going to be the Summer Climate Campaign Organizer for the Wilmington area and one of my roles will be organizing events to rally support for new power plant standards. One of the types of events we discussed was film screenings and I would of course work to have my film screened alongside the main feature.
This week I will be submitting to the Citizen Jane film festival. At this point there is little work left because the film is complete and I am just filling out entires as festivals deadlines approach. As far as school screenings go, that is something I plan to work on arranging over the summer for next years curriculum. I have contacts at most of the schools in the area, so I plan to work with those teachers to see if they can help me get approval to show the film in their school.
I kind or want to see what happens with the festival entries before I get too far ahead of myself. I did officially get hired by Environment NC last week and I am going to be the Summer Climate Campaign Organizer for the Wilmington area and one of my roles will be organizing events to rally support for new power plant standards. One of the types of events we discussed was film screenings and I would of course work to have my film screened alongside the main feature.
Monday, April 7, 2014
Week of April 7th
This past week I submitted our film to the first of our seven film festivals we intend to enter for the purposes of this class. More than likely we will submit to more than 7, but in order to fulfill the requirements of this class I will blog this week about the first 7 we selected and why we selected them.
The first festival is the American Conservation Film Festival. I picked this festival for a variety of reasons. It is an environmental film festival with a student category, it was free, and it is in Shepardstown, West Virginia which is not far from where I originally grew up as a little kid. I haven't been back there in about 15 years, so I would be very interested in the opportunity to go there and see how things have changed, as well as watch other environmental films.
The second festival is called Greentopia. Again, this is an environmental festival and it specializes in films which encourage audiences to make sustainable changes in their lives for the betterment of the environment (according to their website). They program mostly documentary and have a shorts category. The festival takes place in Rochester, NY and the fee is only $25, so it would be affordable to enter.
The third festival is Lunafest, which is a film festival dedicated totally to films made by women, for women, or with women in mind. This is a festival that travels nationwide and I was involved with it here in Wilmington for two years. They have a documentary category and the fee is only $20 and if selected our film would be seen by the largest of audiences because they have multiple screeenings around the country.
The fourth festival is the Asheville Cinema Festival. I picked this festival because it is here in NC and it has a student category that is only $20 to submit. It is also in early November, which would be a beautiful time to check out Asheville. This is such a progressive area I think our film would have a good chance at being programmed.
The fifth festival is the Savannah Film Festival. I picked this festival for similar reasons as the Asheville Cinema Festival. It is relatively close being in Georgia, they have a student category and because it is programmed by SCAD I feel like they might be more willing to accept a film from UNCW. This one is $30, which is the highest fee of all.
The sixth festival is Cucalorus. This is my regional pick.
The seventh is the Projecting Hope festival. This festival is my free festival pick. It takes place in Charlotte and is a Christian festival, so hopefully it could have an impact there.
The first festival is the American Conservation Film Festival. I picked this festival for a variety of reasons. It is an environmental film festival with a student category, it was free, and it is in Shepardstown, West Virginia which is not far from where I originally grew up as a little kid. I haven't been back there in about 15 years, so I would be very interested in the opportunity to go there and see how things have changed, as well as watch other environmental films.
The second festival is called Greentopia. Again, this is an environmental festival and it specializes in films which encourage audiences to make sustainable changes in their lives for the betterment of the environment (according to their website). They program mostly documentary and have a shorts category. The festival takes place in Rochester, NY and the fee is only $25, so it would be affordable to enter.
The third festival is Lunafest, which is a film festival dedicated totally to films made by women, for women, or with women in mind. This is a festival that travels nationwide and I was involved with it here in Wilmington for two years. They have a documentary category and the fee is only $20 and if selected our film would be seen by the largest of audiences because they have multiple screeenings around the country.
The fourth festival is the Asheville Cinema Festival. I picked this festival because it is here in NC and it has a student category that is only $20 to submit. It is also in early November, which would be a beautiful time to check out Asheville. This is such a progressive area I think our film would have a good chance at being programmed.
The fifth festival is the Savannah Film Festival. I picked this festival for similar reasons as the Asheville Cinema Festival. It is relatively close being in Georgia, they have a student category and because it is programmed by SCAD I feel like they might be more willing to accept a film from UNCW. This one is $30, which is the highest fee of all.
The sixth festival is Cucalorus. This is my regional pick.
The seventh is the Projecting Hope festival. This festival is my free festival pick. It takes place in Charlotte and is a Christian festival, so hopefully it could have an impact there.
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