[Frameworks] Festivals vs Touring

[Jack]

Nope, i havent removed 30 min films from the art form at all. as I  
said I program shorts that are 30 minutes long and always have done  
Most of the shorts I've toured and written extensively about are long  
(ie pull my daisy, wholly communion, fingered, police state etc etc).  
However as I said for some festivals it's an issue, I am not saying  
that's not problematic, merely an observation based on the discussion..
Jack

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On 04/03/2011, at 3:09 PM, David Tetzlaff <djtet53 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've heard a panel of festival judges / insiders say: "just forget  
> anything over 15 minutes and under 60 minutes." And it's the same  
> argument, 'if it doesn't have the impact of a feature, we want to  
> program more films, give more people a chance, blah, blah, blah...'  
> The thing is, 30 minutes-ish is kind of an organic length for films  
> that aren't shorty-short to fall into. Lots of inexperienced but  
> creative folks just go make the films they want to make, and they  
> wind up around 30 minutes, and they just fall into festival limbo.  
> And yes, I've been there, so you can call it sour grapes, but I've  
> met enough other people who had worthy half-hour-ish pieces they  
> couldn't get any traction with...
>
>> Some points here, a 30" film is - for some festivals - an issue, if  
>> its programmed in a 'shorts' selection program most shorts are  
>> 10minutes, so do you program a 30 minute film then effectively  
>> 'lose' 2 shorts, or do you program it with a feature making a  
>> session potentially last 2+ hours?
>
> So you've just defined 30 minute films out of the art-form. Shorts  
> must be short. Great.
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