Stro

[Greg]

I just hit 51 entries. Which is probably way too many, unless I don't get into any festivals, then it certainly wasn't enough. Or I should have made a better film. But I'm going with the first option.

I thought I was done at 49 but then the Genre Blast Festival in Viriginia sent out a waiver for all fees. I figured I should enter the film where I didn't have to pay any money to at least get the film looked at. Then over the weekend, I noticed that Cork, Ireland has been running a festival for over 65 years and is a feeder to BAFTA and the Oscars. If I'm accepted, I get to go to Ireland. So, I'm at 51. I'll stop there no matter how tempting the obscure St. Petersburg Festival is.

I'm currently obsessing over the Analytics for the film. Vimeo tells me where and how much of the film people have seen. That's why I knew that the two festivals in Canada had seen it because I could track them on Vimeo. I have two notifications of entry this week. One is in England and the other is in Turkey. At the moment, 9% of Stro has been viewed in Istanbul. 0% has been seen in England.

It's going to be a long six months of me waiting for acceptance by the Festivals. I've set up a calendar to show when the notifications are going out. I also get the same info on Film Freeway, but the Calendar shows me a month at a glance.

Of course, I'm not obsessing. Why do you ask? Time to go hit refresh to see if anybody has watched in England, yet.