05-03-2020, 06:43 AM
When I entered The Last Captain into all the festivals all I got in return was nothing. The only notifications I would get were small notes or just my notifications page on Withoutabox turning from "In Consideration" to "Not Chose" I get the fact the fact festivals are inundated with submissions and they wanted to streamline their process as well as make it easy on themselves. But it was very much the black box. Submissions go in. Very little comes out.
Which is why the new round is proving surprising. I finished doing the entries on Monday. By Tuesday the two Canadian films had at least looked at the film. I can only tell this because I'm watching the analytics on Vimeo. they didn't send any messages.
Yesterday, I got two emails. One was from the Bend Film Festival thanking me for my submission and saying they were going to watch it in the near future and couldn't wait to get it before the selection committee. It was probably just smoke blowing but it was very courteously done.
The other email was from the Valley Film Festival down in the San Fernando Valley. They want to meet with me via Zoom next Friday for a virtual cocktail party. At first I was little concerned about my partner, because when I signed up for the event, they only gave me one ticket. But I sent the link to HK and he got a ticket as well. So, we are both attending. I'm guessing this will be akin to speed dating so the Valley Film Festival can gauge what kind of people they are inviting to the festival. They probably don't want to introduce jerks to everybody.
They could be doing this with everyone. There might be a huge crowd at the Zoom meeting. But they are including me which I never got from anyone on The Last Captain.
Fingers crossed for the next six months or so.
Which is why the new round is proving surprising. I finished doing the entries on Monday. By Tuesday the two Canadian films had at least looked at the film. I can only tell this because I'm watching the analytics on Vimeo. they didn't send any messages.
Yesterday, I got two emails. One was from the Bend Film Festival thanking me for my submission and saying they were going to watch it in the near future and couldn't wait to get it before the selection committee. It was probably just smoke blowing but it was very courteously done.
The other email was from the Valley Film Festival down in the San Fernando Valley. They want to meet with me via Zoom next Friday for a virtual cocktail party. At first I was little concerned about my partner, because when I signed up for the event, they only gave me one ticket. But I sent the link to HK and he got a ticket as well. So, we are both attending. I'm guessing this will be akin to speed dating so the Valley Film Festival can gauge what kind of people they are inviting to the festival. They probably don't want to introduce jerks to everybody.
They could be doing this with everyone. There might be a huge crowd at the Zoom meeting. But they are including me which I never got from anyone on The Last Captain.
Fingers crossed for the next six months or so.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm