I just submitted "Podunk" to five more festivals, bringing our overall total now to six. In addition to The Slamdance Film Festival, we're now on our way to consideration in the following fests:
1) New Hope Film Fest in PA
2) San Francisco International Festival of Shorts
3) Fade In Awards
4) Seattle International
5) Hawaii International Film Festival
Woofta. Time to start saving my pennies... Many of these festivals are quite a ways out. Hawaii Int'l, for example, won't have a response for us until September of 2011. I wonder where we'll be by then. I think this sudden surge of festival submissions will have to be the end of the road for the little movie that could, if only because now I am officially broke. Time to return to researching and writing new scripts; at least that's free. Now we enter the phase of praying, keeping fingers/toes, other extremities crossed, hoping, practicing patience, etc...
"I think I can, I think I can..." Start saying "I can, I can" and you will! Good luck with your submissions.
ReplyDeleteCheck out the Maryland Film Festival! If you're going to make multiple submissions, why not try them all? I don't know much about the local film industry, but I do know the festival is taken very seriously in Baltimore. I also get emails from them all the time, which is weird. Not sure how they found me!
ReplyDeleteHere's submission info. Deadline to submit is coming up!
http://www.md-filmfest.com/sub.cfm?ID=11
Cassie
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