The coming out on the big screen

The journey of our new animation film "The confession of Father John Thomas" is about to start tomorrow with the first public test screening in front of an subjective predominately Queer audience in Lismore ( Northern NSW Australia). Leigh and i decided together with the festival director Akkadia Ford to do a public preview screening of the film where the audience is asked to fill in a short questionnaire after the screening of the film. (see picture) For the last two weeks Leigh and i have been working hard on getting the website up and running. We also started a Facebook page where people can become friends with Father John Thomas and confess their sinful thoughts. In order to attract attention to the website and the facebook group i posted the following message onto the Queer Fruits Film Festival Facebook group

"To our queer congregation. We would like to divulge to you that our courages Father John Thomas and our sinful Miss Beaver Eater are coming out on the big screen in the provocatively sexy animation of THE CONFESSION OF FATHER JOHN THOMAS. If curiosity gets the better of you check out our naughty trailer before opening night of the Queer Fruits Film Festival, Lismore www.fatherjohnthomas.com.au. Like me as your friend and confess your own dirty sinful thoughts! Bless you .... Father John Thomas xxx"

My curiosity has now become, how we attract pour audience to our website and to the Facebook group. I have started with printing 400 flyers to distribute tomorrow evening at the opening of the festival. The theatre has a 390 seating capacity and they predict a sold out opening night tomorrow, so everybody should get a flyer! Since we launched the website and the Facebook page on the 10 of Dec 2010 we have 72 people that like the Trailer and 23 friends on Facebook. I suppose what we are trying to do is create a bit of a following for the characters in the film and in return gather momentum and an audience for the next episodes of the trilogy or a series with more episodes. More Tomorrow....