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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