From: Myron Ort (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2011 - 09:29:17 PST
(?) Films cannot be bootlegged as easily from a festival, cannot be
embedded on some site without credits. Do you really want a
"watermark" running through your entire film?
I don't know the answers, would like to know myself.
Myron Ort
On Feb 16, 2011, at 9:22 AM, Matt Helme wrote:
> When you can put your work on-line and have it seen worldwide, why
> bother with festivals?
> Matt
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff-94PXtixo
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> From: D Dawson <email suppressed>
> To: Experimental Film Discussion List <email suppressed>
> Sent: Wed, February 16, 2011 12:11:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Current situation with Film Festivals
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> I agree with Dominic, I have heard horror stories about festivals
> sending home 150 tapes each to 5 individual undergrads telling them
> to choose 20 that “he/she likes” no mention of the criteria of
> evaluation or the fact that a single person’s judgment might throw
> off the whole process. I mean realistically how else are you
> going to get through 1000-2000 films right?
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> On 2/16/11 10:38 AM, "DOMINIC ANGERAME"
> <email suppressed> wrote:
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> I am noticing an alarming trend these days with experimental film
> festivals throughout the world. I received a notice from the Images
> Festival in Canada that they received more than 1,000 entries for
> exhibition. I am sure that Ann Arbor Film Festival received far
> more entries than the 150 films they are viewing. Since is seems
> that almost everyone is a filmmaker these days that the structure
> and procedures of the major experimental film festivals should be
> changed in major ways. Virtually all festivals charge an fee for
> entry. 1000 entries can mean $25,000 going to the festivals for
> admin/pre-screening, etc. This does not include the donations,
> governmental grants, and other sources of income. I used to run a
> couple of festivals and understand the purpose of entry fees to
> help defray costs. However, since the number of entries for many
> festivals has risen more than 3 or 4 times the amount the festivals
> need to consider extending their exhibitions to accomodate the
> amount of entries. Most filmmakers are now facing a 1 to 20 odds of
> having their films shown in major festivals. This is less than
> playing the lottery.
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> It is distressing for me, having been making films for more than 40
> years to see the festival situation become so debased. The volume
> of work being entered is drowning these festivals in both admin,
> and creative decisions. I have served on juries in many festivals
> and noticed when I looked at the list of the films rejected by pre
> screeners that many great films had been rejected. As a judge I
> requested to view those rejected and found most of the films
> selected by me were shown at these particular festivals. Since the
> volume of entered work in most well known festivals far exceeds the
> festivals ability to manage this volume, that a new structure needs
> to be put in place. This would be a great service to the filmmakers
> entering their works into these festivals.
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> Dominic Angerame
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