[Frameworks] Film Festival Blues

[Michael Betancourt]

I agree about the prescreening process, even if there aren't thousands of entries . I spoke with the organizer of a show a few years ago who asked why I hadn't submitted--and he was surprised to learn that I had, but the prescreeners had simply rejected my work. I get the feeling thiis happens a lot, especially since my work is digital and incorporates errors. Its disheartening to say the least.

Michael

Sent from my phone so appologies for any typos!

> On May 1, 2019, at 1:59 PM, Dominic Angerame <dominic.angerame at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I do not think the competitive nature of festivals in the problem. It is definitely with the PRE SCREENING process. I have sat as a judge for the Experimental Category (New Visions) at the SF Int’l Film Festival. After viewing all of the work approved by the prescreens I request a list of all of the entries and filmmakers. I found four important and well known filmmaker’s work on this rejected list.
> 
> I requested that the judges see these works and all of them were shown at the Festival and won achieved an award.
> 
> Prescreens are often not qualified to watch experimental work often they have no idea what that genre is. Pre screening has been a problem with festivals for decades and this process should be re evaluated by Festival Directors and Organizations.
> 
> D
> 
>> On May 1, 2019, at 10:25 AM, Dante Fresse <daf029 at bucknell.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Film festival proliferation is a good thing for me, but focusing on the next time increase in my opinion isn’t the right thing to do. As a young filmmaker I find competitive process of selecting to be an opportunity for growth and scarcity in this industry and that is an excellent way to learn how to use opportunities where you can get a chance to talk to succeeding artists.
>> 
>> What do y’all think about this?
>> 
>>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 5:11 PM Dominic Angerame <dominic.angerame at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Every film festival is telling me that they have received record number of entries from hundreds to thousands. If entries are increasing should not the scope and duration of the festivals increase to accommodate the record numbers. Increased entries also mean increased income to the festivals. 
>>> 
>>> A question to the community
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