Week 12- Follow Your Nose

Apr 2—Week 12: 

If you haven’t already, you should identify three or four film festivals that would be candidates for to submit you film. What are they? Why did you choose them? What questions or reservations do you have?

After looking over many film festivals (and seeing all the ones presented in class) I am very slow to submit to many, especially the ones that have heavy entrance fees. I've been around the block once or twice and know good and well that all media is business and wouldn't be released if someone wasn't making money off of it. In may ways film festivals are paid Ad space for a director, and can be extremely political (it never hurts to be a good schmoozer, and it seems to have much in common with job hunting, you're a paper in a stack of 100 papers and you have to make your paper stand out.)

I would definitely be interested in submitting to film festivals, and though more my area of expertise is away from Animation I would be willing to see what I could do with these films we've made or an offshoot thereof.
I would be much more intrigued and interested in pushing something I've shot with a crew, the crew keeps you honest and with a couple good directors and (Please, God, can I have my Producers back? I can't live without them.)
I guess you could say I've been spoiled, but I've surrounded myself with a good media team and proven that that's how ideas come to life. I'm mainly referencing this, spec it if you haven't seen it yet. Budget under $200.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSSBSw8zQ7g

Thanks.