Film Festival season has started

[Ken Zakreski]

There are two festivals in our area. I know both of the festival programmers and will ask if they would be interested in a special viewing of How It All Ends based on the interest from viewers on You Tube.

Greg has not commented to me on this form of distribution, but I think he would approve. Just a suggestion post accepted entries into Film or Video festivals on this thread.

Ken

[wonderingmind42]

There are two festivals in our area. I know both of the festival programmers and will ask if they would be interested in a special viewing of How It All Ends based on the interest from viewers on You Tube.

Greg has not commented to me on this form of distribution, but I think he would approve. Just a suggestion post accepted entries into Film or Video festivals on this thread.

Ken

I had no idea there was a "season" for film festivals. What drives that?

"How It All Ends" will be shown at the Corvallis Eco-Film Festival in Corvallis, Oregon, probably on Feb 22, with yours truly introducing it.

You all amaze me!

Greg (wonderingmind42)

[Ken Zakreski]

Greg,

The season refers to the deadline for entries which has past for 4 festivals in my area. I knew or had met all the programmers as well, too bad. They all just finished the grueling selection process, were pretty beat up and not to happy to consider late entries.

I gave them the speech that for a festival to keep relevant it had to be current and current means late entries.

After speaking with each of them I think it is kinda late to expect an entry. A couple were already gone to press kit and promo stage.

I did direct each and every one to the wonderingmind site for a look see, Shirley might do something for the up island show. I'll let you know.


Ken

[Tempest Stormwind]

This seemed like the most appropriate thread, as it's speaking about a sort of film festival of its own.

There seems to be a chance to get a *global* audience for this, if we're quick about it. (I won't be able to help out too much, sadly, due to an increase in both coursework and research between now and April, but I should call it to people's attention.)

http://pangeaday.org/

It'd require a modified version of How It All Ends (perhaps pulling the best elements of both TMTVYES and HIAE together) to be finished in less than a month -- but with most of us working together, we can probably get it done.

[waspbloke]

This seemed like the most appropriate thread, as it's speaking about a sort of film festival of its own.

There seems to be a chance to get a *global* audience for this, if we're quick about it. (I won't be able to help out too much, sadly, due to an increase in both coursework and research between now and April, but I should call it to people's attention.)

http://pangeaday.org/

It'd require a modified version of How It All Ends (perhaps pulling the best elements of both TMTVYES and HIAE together) to be finished in less than a month -- but with most of us working together, we can probably get it done.

That looks very interesting. I hope it doesn't just become another truck-fest for pop stars tho'. Seems like festival organisers these days of got into this predictable loop, where all the usual uber-rich pop stars turn up grinning at the prospect of yet more priceless self-promotion while everything else gets relegated to a sideshow.

I bet if you asked most people who turned up to that Al Gore thing last summer at Wembley what they remember most about the day, it'll be whichever band/star pulled them in to it originally - not the take home message of the day.

Sorry - I'm ranting a bit :P just get a little bit riled by celebrities hijacking every worthwhile event for their own interests.

[wonderingmind42]

That looks very interesting. I hope it doesn't just become another truck-fest for pop stars tho'. Seems like festival organisers these days of got into this predictable loop, where all the usual uber-rich pop stars turn up grinning at the prospect of yet more priceless self-promotion while everything else gets relegated to a sideshow.

I bet if you asked most people who turned up to that Al Gore thing last summer at Wembley what they remember most about the day, it'll be whichever band/star pulled them in to it originally - not the take home message of the day.

Sorry - I'm ranting a bit :P just get a little bit riled by celebrities hijacking every worthwhile event for their own interests.

Fear not, waspbloke. It is all part of the plan. . . What's going to eventually get soccer mom to answer "Global warming" when the pollster asks her what is the most important issue in such-and-such election is not her reasoned assessment of the science--she hasn't got time. It will be that the culture has been so. . .marinated. . .by those who have assessed the issue, that it has seeped into the collective consciousness.

Ask most people why they recycle today, and a large chunk would probably say "Because that's what you do."

Personally, I take it as a sign that the mission is progressing everytime a pop star says "global warming."

Cheers,
Greg

[Ken Zakreski]

The Global Film Festival in Nanaimo http://www.nanaimofilmfest.org/ invited me to speak on the indie media panel as part of the festival. I was too late to enter How It All Ends but did show the first 6 minutes as part of my talk on the emerging use of technology to deliver "news" important to the public. The video was well received and often called "inspirational". Interesting to note is that many of the attendees were familiar with the work.

Ken