yes like i said the true roller coaster has begun. and so a couple of weeks after receiving the NO Thank you letter from Annecy, I received an email saying:
"Dear Elka Kerkhofs,
In the view of the 2011 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, we will have our now traditional programme "Politically Incorrect". No need here to present it as its name speaks for itself.
We would very much like to include your film "The Confession of Father John Thomas" in the programme for 3 screenings during the festival week.
If you agree with this project, I will deliver to you in May our Fedex account number for sending a Pal DigiBeta or BetaSP tape before the end of May.
Thanking you in advance for your participation and looking forward to receiving your reply.
Best regards, "
and so reason to jump into the air after all and scream! On top of that we received an ever so exciting email from the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto that we are selected in the SLAP and TICKLE 2011 program. According to Britfilm festivals listing a A rated Short Film Festival and a great Festival to Premiere your film in North America! Also we decided to submit the film into the Short Film Corner in Cannes and pay the $130.00 registration fee even though neither Leigh or I can Attend the festival, we thought it was still worth submitting for all the festival programmers their watching all the short films. So our film is can now officially use the Cannes short film corners Logo on all our promotion and advertising! I suppose in the end it comes down to paying money for promotion and advertising of your work, so you sell your products for the future! It's about taking your work and craft serious and making it marketable. To start our journey with these 3 top festivals internationally is a boost for our film. It will give us a good chance to promote the film in the mainstream as well as in our targeted queer markets and that is all we had hoped for really. Now the real money spending is starting again. if you thought that being selected in a top festival is great and free, think again ... CFC WSFF wanted me to post a tape out to them immediately and on top of the already $40.00 paid to submit the film (including postage) it now cost an other $16.00 to send the tape and hundreds of dollars to print all your post cards and promo stuff and post that to them too! So the question can now be asked, when does the short film makers start to recoup some of it's costs... meaning we can almost forget about asking "when does the short film maker start to earn some extra money?" ... we shall contemplate this for a little while!
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
The Festival roller coaster
Here we are, receiving our first official "I'm sorry to inform you that ...." letter from Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
So it has started, the festival roller coaster, yes, no, no ,no, yes, no, no ...ect... for years i have been trying to find some sort of thread through all these festivals, which to submit to and which decided to select your film and which not and on what premise??? Although Annecy declined we are going to try via a different revenue and we might have an other shot at it through it's online competition for which we just need to make a few changes in the film and mention a few extra words in some shots. Then we need to upload it and get as many votes as possible!!! so that could be interesting! In the mean time we have entered into the "I've seen Films" Festival, the Ottawa animation Festival, the Canberra Short film festival and we are just uploading our film for selection and possible inclusion at the short film corner in Cannes!!! So fingers crossed for any of them. We will start entering into some more Queer film festivals soon too, so that should be really exciting again too. "Our supposed demographic". It's a fine balance between your strategy for the possible journey you want your film to start on and high profile film festivals and your target audience film festivals and exposure and distribution, Internationally as well as your local market! Sometimes i feel i have a plan and sometimes it;s the luck of the draw, a festival just catches my eye and grabs me and i enter! LIke the I've seen Films Festival in Italy, put on by the famous dutch actor Rutger Hauer staring in "Blade Runner". Well it's the old European nostalgia kicking in and then i see a great possible opportunity to break through in a different market and i give us a shot at it really. Bottom line is really "if you don't shoot, you miss for sure"!!
Dear Sir/Madam,
Out of the 1,967 films received, from 68 countries, the Annecy Festival 2011 selection committees have retained 207 for the official selection (out of feature films).
After their deliberations, I'm sorry to have to inform you that they did not choose your film(s):
20110252 - The Confession of Father John Thomas
I would be grateful if you could inform the director(s).
If you would like to attend this year's edition, you can download the forms for accreditation and hotel reservation from our website www.annecy.org.
I look forward to seeing you in Annecy.
Sincerely,
Tiziana Loschi
Managing Director
So it has started, the festival roller coaster, yes, no, no ,no, yes, no, no ...ect... for years i have been trying to find some sort of thread through all these festivals, which to submit to and which decided to select your film and which not and on what premise??? Although Annecy declined we are going to try via a different revenue and we might have an other shot at it through it's online competition for which we just need to make a few changes in the film and mention a few extra words in some shots. Then we need to upload it and get as many votes as possible!!! so that could be interesting! In the mean time we have entered into the "I've seen Films" Festival, the Ottawa animation Festival, the Canberra Short film festival and we are just uploading our film for selection and possible inclusion at the short film corner in Cannes!!! So fingers crossed for any of them. We will start entering into some more Queer film festivals soon too, so that should be really exciting again too. "Our supposed demographic". It's a fine balance between your strategy for the possible journey you want your film to start on and high profile film festivals and your target audience film festivals and exposure and distribution, Internationally as well as your local market! Sometimes i feel i have a plan and sometimes it;s the luck of the draw, a festival just catches my eye and grabs me and i enter! LIke the I've seen Films Festival in Italy, put on by the famous dutch actor Rutger Hauer staring in "Blade Runner". Well it's the old European nostalgia kicking in and then i see a great possible opportunity to break through in a different market and i give us a shot at it really. Bottom line is really "if you don't shoot, you miss for sure"!!
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