Rejections
Today was bizarre as I got rejection letters from 3 film festivals, Austin Film Festival, London International Film Festival, Hawaii International Film Festival, where I had submitted 'Memories' to within the space of an hour. Not really suprised because thats the general trend that 'Memories' has followed -all the big festivals do not want to know about independent films made without any budget and not backed by any studio or distributor. Not sad or anything because it is all part of the game. But the festivals should clearly state if they are not interested in 'no budget' unsupported features because it will save a lot of people a lot of money.
So it is just two more festivals I need to hear back from, 'DNA Film Festival' in Toronto and Liverpool Film Festival'...the first one will announce their selection around 10th October while Liverpool Film Festival will announce stuff sometime later in December...Overall the festival track record wasn't too bad I guess - out of the 20 odd film festivals we submitted the movie to it got selected to screen at 5 film festivals - a ratio of 1:4 . Would definitely want to improve that ratio with the next movie and obviously select film festivals with more care.
I got up really early, so that I could bike to work but the weather did not hold up. :-( I got the lights I ordered for and I will now be able to bike after dark, now the only other thing I need to make me weather proof is a cycling jacket and gloves, after that I won't have to worry if it is raining or not - will bike to work anyway.
Human beings are strange and unpredictable. Paula Jones - the head of faculty at the school, came back from a mini-holiday today with a japanese girl in tow. What happened was that she found the girl standing along at the airport for ages and when she enquired about it the story which unfolded was astounding. The girl had come to New Zealand to meet up with her boy friend but the guy refused to take her calls and did not turn up to pick her at the airport. To complicate matters further the girl is deaf, did not speak english and had no return ticket or money since she had spent all her money to buy a ticket to come here. So it was really kind of Paula to try and somehow communicate with the girl, find out her problem and then take the responsibility of somehow sorting out her situation. Paula contacted the Japanese consulate and then also got one of this year's students to come in {since she knew japanese} to help translate for the girl. I think now the Japanese consultate is helping that girl get back to Japan. But still hats off to Paula for taking such a courageous step.
Just finished watching 'Red Cockroaches' and it is a surreal experience. I can't really tell what the story is about because it will spoil it for you incase I try to review it here. I must say that the movie has got a really intense energy and it is definitely not for the faint hearted. It is really visual and stylistic as well. And a surprise is that the movie was made for US$ 2000. Moviemaking madness rules.
I will shut up for now.
Amit
Human beings are strange and unpredictable. Paula Jones - the head of faculty at the school, came back from a mini-holiday today with a japanese girl in tow. What happened was that she found the girl standing along at the airport for ages and when she enquired about it the story which unfolded was astounding. The girl had come to New Zealand to meet up with her boy friend but the guy refused to take her calls and did not turn up to pick her at the airport. To complicate matters further the girl is deaf, did not speak english and had no return ticket or money since she had spent all her money to buy a ticket to come here. So it was really kind of Paula to try and somehow communicate with the girl, find out her problem and then take the responsibility of somehow sorting out her situation. Paula contacted the Japanese consulate and then also got one of this year's students to come in {since she knew japanese} to help translate for the girl. I think now the Japanese consultate is helping that girl get back to Japan. But still hats off to Paula for taking such a courageous step.
Just finished watching 'Red Cockroaches' and it is a surreal experience. I can't really tell what the story is about because it will spoil it for you incase I try to review it here. I must say that the movie has got a really intense energy and it is definitely not for the faint hearted. It is really visual and stylistic as well. And a surprise is that the movie was made for US$ 2000. Moviemaking madness rules.
I will shut up for now.
Amit
posted by Amit @ 6:34 PM
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