Screening have come and gone. You could compare it to a big tropical storm! There is all this build up and anticipations, then you have the screening followed by silence when it's all over, until the next film festival. It's all so flighty, but as a filmmaker you hope that people remember a bit of your film, a character, a scene or an emotion! I had a fellow filmmaker friend (who i met in Cannes a couple of years ago) who attended the screening in Perth and who send me a beautiful report on how the audience responded to the film.
She wrote:
"Your film went great the other night, it had a strong band of supporters in one part of the cinema, while from another there seemed to be shock and hush. There was a lot of raucous laughter, only for a short time did it soften to nervous laughter, before reaching a whole lot more strong, laugh out loud responses. Your film was the last "entertaining" film, shown close to some other shorter, experimental works, so I think would have been clearly in everyone's mind at the end of the night. I really enjoyed the shift to irreverent comedy, partnered with a new hand- drawn looking style." (Justine Smith)
It's great to have filmmaker friends in different places around the world to report back to you about your screenings if you yourself are not able to attend for any particular reason. And when you have your film shown in a short amount of time all over the world you would have many reasons why you could not attend all of them. So i also contacted my very good filmmaker friend Francisco Vargas (who i met in Palm Springs back in 2009) who happen to have just arrived in Palm Springs from NY the day before the film screening in PS. So he attended and also reported back to me.
He wrote:
"The screening was great. I loved it, i remember that we talked about it and then i saw on theeee screen. The animation was superb and the sound was awesome, the guys laughed a lot and i myself enjoyed it tremendously, your talents are amazing I'm so happy for you. All was well!" (Francisco Vargas)
A shame i don't know anybody who went to the screening in Annecy, but we can't win them all! For sure we can't win them all as we just received another two rejections from Canberra Short Film Festival and from the big one, the Ottawa International Animation Film Festival. I think it's now time that we start sending our film out to the Queer Film Festivals around the world!
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