[Frameworks] Film Festivals in General.

[Dominic Angerame]

Now tell me something I do not know. I a know of someone who was asked to
enter the Ann Arbor one year without entry fee and guess what this fm won
the top award. I wrote something nasty to the Festival about never even
receiving a rejection letter, and now they no longer communicate with me.

The article does not show any way of alternatives, just suggests how one
can play the FF game run by the organizer's rule. Such as films being no
older than two years. Try and promote a film with that period I would
recommend to festival organizers. It is virtually impossible. One of my
films Anaconda Targets was shown in every festival I sent it to without
exception. I had to have someone come in a volunteer to work as an intern
to correspond, send the work, and make arrangements and in two years we
could enter all the festivals. Let alone make any money at it.

I think the paradigms for film festivals needs to be ended. There is
absolutely nothing in it for the filmmakers except instant ego
satisfication if you can afford to attend the festivals. Suppose they gave
a film festival and no filmmakers entered. Think of it. That is pretty much
what I am doing.

Dominic


Dominic


On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Medford Reinhardt <
medfordreinhardt at gmail.com> wrote:

> This article by Sean Farnel is relevant to what you're saying:
> http://povmagazine.com/articles/view/towards-a-filmmaker-bill-of-rights-for-festivals
>
> A few more thoughts:
>
> 1) This is just in my opinion of course, but you shouldn't ever pay a
> festival entry fee. Send an email directly to the programer with a write-up
> or a link to part of or the entirety of the film. Ask if they're
> interested. If they're not, you've saved money, and if they are interested,
> you will almost never be asked (in my experience) to supply that entry fee.
> The dirty little secret of most film festivals is that a HUGE amount of
> what is shown comes from solicitation and from private correspondences.
> Only a small percentage of submissions are actually accepted. I have had
> many conversations with programmers that have corroborated this.
>
> 2)  A film festival often cannot logistically expand its dates. Finding
> the space and infrastructure to screen films often occurs the year prior to
> the festival, and predicting the number of entries is of course impossible
> at that time. Still, I understand your frustration. But any festival that
> receives entries that are comparable to the number of slots they have is
> just not getting enough entires.
>
> 3) Let festivals know when they are being shitty. I suspect filmmakers are
> often timid and afraid to confront these kind of behaviours for fear of
> being cast in a negative light, but I suspect that most festivals would
> take it very seriously.
>
> 4) Something very important to remember. Amazing films get rejected from
> festivals all the time, for a wide variety of reasons: too much
> representation from one country, having too many films that work in the
> same style, a film that can't be placed into any of the existing shorts
> programs. There are many reasons and every year, programmers often will
> pass along films to other festivals because of this. A rejection from a
> festival is not a judgment of quality. If the programmers are worth a damn,
> it can have many other meanings around it.
>
>
> Medford
>
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