International World Premieres

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!