10 posts tagged “festival”
Sonnyboo's website has free downloads of standard symbols like festival laurels, DVD symbol, FBI warnings, film ratings, etc. That's where I got my festival laurels for my Tooth Fairy website, but I had to process it to make it transparent.
Tooth Fairy will be playing at the Big Water Film Festival Nov 6-8! It’s on the shore of Lake Superior in Northern Wisconsin. It sounds like a sweet community that would genuinely appreciate our little movie. Besides, you can't beat the certificate they sent us!!
That is the last of the festivals for now. This brings our acceptance rate up to 40%!
Susan Ee
www.feraldream.com
Today at 2 (noon on the west coast), TOOTH FAIRY will premier at the Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival! Tooth Fairy will play as part of Kids Shorts at Film Row Cinema, 1104 S Wabash, 8th Fl., Chicago. It sounds like an awesome program! Wish I could be there.
It cracks me up that TOOTH FAIRY got into both children's programs and horror programs. Here is the schedule of upcoming showings so far:
Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival – Sun. Sept 13 at 2 PM, Film Row Cinema, Chicago http://www.projectchicago.com/
Tacoma Film
Festival – Sat. Oct. 3rd at noon, Grand Cinema, Tacoma, WA
http://www.grandcinema.com/page.php?id=43
Dark Carnival Horror Festival – Oct 2-4, Bloomington, IN, final schedule yet to be determined
http://www.darkcarnivalfilmfest.com/
Independents Film Festival – Nov. in Tampa, FL, final schedule yet to be determined
http://independentsfilmfest.com/
Utopia Film Festival – Oct 19-25 in Greenbelt, MD, final schedule yet to be determined
http://www.utopiafilmfestival.org/
Click! Network - Tacoma’s cable TV network, video on demand, Oct.
The Education Channel – Tampa’s cable TV network, Nov.-Dec.
http://tecc.tv/educationchannel.org/index.php
Check it out if you're in the area!
Susan Ee
www.feraldream.com
I just found out that TOOTH FAIRY got into the Dark Carnival festival! This one sounds especially FUN!!
Dark Carnival is a horror festival, complete with a week-long celebration of horror culminating in a weekend of festival films. They screen indie horror films from all over the world in cool venues like a vintage drive-in, and a historic 1930's era theater with state-of-the-art technology and an enormous screen. They do things like a mashup of cinema and live performance with blood spraying on the audience as part of the pre-festival film celebration. :-) They have filmmaking and fx workshops and celebrity guests, etc. It's in Bloomington Indiana (home of Indiana University), and was voted one of "The Top 25 Festivals Worth the Entrance Fee" by Movie Maker Magazine.
The films will be shown Oct 2-4, final schedule to be determined.
Good times!
Susan Ee
www.feraldream.com
Sundance has announced a new section called, "Next." Next is for lo-no feature films. According to Variety, Sundance has already received 4,964 applications and 3,689 films for the 2010 festival.
Good luck to all you potential lo-no budget Sundancers!
Susan Ee
www.feraldream.com
Just got the program for the Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival. Tooth Fairy will play as part of Kids Shorts on Sunday, Sept 13th at 2PM at Film Row Cinema, 1104 S Wabash, 8th Fl., Chicago.
The logline for the film is:
In the heart of suburbia, a little boy sets a trap for the Tooth Fairy and discovers that even innocence has a dark side.
Looks like a great festival. If you're in the area, check it out!
Susan Ee
www.feraldream.com
I just got notification that Tooth Fairy got into its fourth festival! It's great fun getting congratulations notes from festivals. The Utopia Film Festival runs Oct 19-25 in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Susan Ee
www.feraldream.com
Some of the news that got missed during my break from the blog is that my film, TOOTH FAIRY, got accepted into three film festivals: Tacoma Film Festival, Independents Film Festival in Tampa, and Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival. It will also be playing on local cable TV stations in Tacoma and Tampa. Yeah!
Most of the fests said they had a record breaking number of entries this year. The Chicago International REEL Shorts Fest had over 900 entries. I'm especially excited because TOOTH FAIRY cost $250, and was shot with a crew of 3 including me. :-) The other short films I've seen cost $2,000-$10,000, with a crew of 25-30.
I just got the details on the Tacoma Film Festival. TOOTH FAIRY will be shown on Sat. Oct 3rd at noon at Grand Cinema under the category of family shorts. It's a little dark for a "family" film, but it does star a cute kid and the music is upbeat and fun, so I guess that was enough to make it a family film. The Sat. showtime is especially good because the festival runs from the 1st through the 8th, and my film is showing on the one party weekend the festival covers. The festival organizers are especially supportive of the filmmakers and will try to provide accommodations for us. :-) So I think I'll go.
Susan Ee
www.feraldream.com
Totally nervous. I'm getting ready to go to the screening of the 48-hour films that were shot this past weekend. I was invited onto one of those teams and ended up being writer/director. I have yet to see the full movie, yet I invited a bunch of people on the theory that it would be more fun to see it with my friends. So now, I'm nervous.
We found out our genre and other elements on Friday night, and turned in a finished film on Sunday night. Much drama happened in between, not all of it in front of the camera. :-)
If you're near San Jose tonight, come check out what filmmakers can do in 48 hours. My film is called THE RESCUER. It's playing at Camera 12 Cinemas, 201 South 2nd St., San Jose at 9:30 PM. If you like it, I encourage you to vote for it. If you don't like it, you're welcome to give me a hard time about it. :-)
I'm off to have dinner with a bunch of friends before we go see the films. Wish me luck!
Susan Ee
www.feraldream.com
Oddly, some French guy is going to see Tooth Fairy before my cast and crew. Yesterday was the last day to ship a film to Cannes Film Festival so that it'll arrive by their deadline. The DHL deadline was 5:30 and I made it there at 4:29. The movie's still a work in progress but Cannes accepts those so I decided to go for it because Cannes seems to be the last of the mega festivals of festival season. It's free to submit a short to Cannes but it costs over $70 to ship it there.
Yes, I know it's a long shot for any film to get accepted into Cannes. With who knows how many tens of thousands of submissions they get, a filmmaker is probably lucky to have her film viewed at all by the selection committee. But still, the only sure thing is that you won't win if you're not in the game...
Susan Ee
http://feraldream.com
