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.