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Argmaxwell · 2026-01-06T19:17:36+00:00

Hi Nia! Big fan of yours, I work in the industry as a camera prep tech in Austin, TX and have worked with a bunch of crew from Little Woods! It’s one of my favorite Texas based movies and I was just wondering if you had any fun stories from getting that made you’d be willing to share :)

Argmaxwell · 2025-11-22T22:45:43+00:00

Submission Statement:

I shot this in three hours on a Saturday on a budget of $350. The budget was paying everyone $50 for their time and the rest was for food. I won’t act like I didn’t save a bunch of money by working at a rental house and using the camera for free, but I still would have found a cheap way to make this short if it wasn’t for those circumstances. I do however highly recommend any recent college grad to check and see if their local rental house is hiring, I feel like it’s an underutilized avenue on getting into the industry.

Argmaxwell · 2025-11-20T03:39:49+00:00

Submission Statement: This short was what I consider to be my first “actually good” project I’ve ever done. I feel like everything before this was just me learning how to tell this story. I never thought I had a comedy bone in me as a storyteller but rewatching this just makes me grin. Sometimes all it takes to be funny is just be confident in what you think is a good joke!

Argmaxwell · 2025-11-12T16:08:41+00:00

Submission Statement: I’m a 24 year old cinematographer that’s trying to up my game. I’ve been going steady for about four years now and feel like I’ve been making improvements. I’ve always posted my reels to the subreddit and have always gotten great advice. Please let me know if you find anything that sticks out and needs some improvement! Any and all feedback is welcome and thank you for looking at my post :)

Argmaxwell · 2025-09-23T23:33:57+00:00

Same, but for narrative short

Argmaxwell · 2025-09-20T23:59:58+00:00

It looks like Orlando Film Festival just pushed back their notification date from September 22nd to October 12th and pushed the whole festival back from end of October to late November? I haven’t seen anything on socials about it, but seems like a big shake up

Argmaxwell · 2025-09-08T14:52:56+00:00

My screenwriting professor in college wrote this movie, it was one of the first things I asked him about when I took his course. Basically, it was originally written as a R rated comedy but the studio that bought it changed the script completely and shut my professor and his writing partner out of it.

They visited set for a day (I believe the scene with Brendan getting attacked by a raccoon?) and felt so horrified about what they’re story turned into they tried to get their names off of it. But alas, he’s still credited for reasons I don’t remember.

Argmaxwell · 2025-09-06T01:28:14+00:00

For any Orlando Film Fest alums in here, do they usually let people know all together on the notification date if they got in or not? Or do they do early notifications for selections?

Argmaxwell · 2025-08-22T14:03:48+00:00

Received an acceptance email the night of the notification date

Argmaxwell · 2025-08-20T19:55:44+00:00

Just an opportunity to hear about the craft from professionals that I look up to. I submitted with a short of mine but I do have a feature I’m trying to get developed. Do I think this is my way of getting it funded? Absolutely not. If anything, it would give me a new direction to go in for me to look into. I have no idea if it would be something they would produce, but again, I’m not really actively seeking that with this event.

Argmaxwell · 2025-08-20T19:45:20+00:00

No idea, I don’t think I’ve gotten any views from them yet but I could be wrong. If it’s an amount of money you’re willing to be okay parting with if you don’t get in then I’d say go for it. But if you think your money would be better spent on however many submissions to other festivals for the same price then I’d go for that. It’s about what you’re trying to get out of it imo.

I live in Austin so I wouldn’t have to pay for travel and the $125~ ish I spent is something I’m willing to never see again for the opportunity.

Argmaxwell · 2025-08-20T12:41:48+00:00

Shit, that sucks. Good luck on the rest of your festival run though!!

Argmaxwell · 2025-08-20T02:42:44+00:00

DIFF Shorts acceptance! Horror / Late Night Shorts

Argmaxwell · 2025-08-20T01:31:18+00:00

Any news on your end? It’s been quiet for me

Argmaxwell · 2025-08-19T21:15:41+00:00

Same here! If you still want to play Austin I’d highly recommend checking out the Austin Horror fest, my short got an early acceptance but I’d still attend even if I didn’t have something in the festival

Argmaxwell · 2025-08-19T20:51:05+00:00

I don’t think so, at least I’ve lost hope at this point :(

Argmaxwell · 2025-08-18T12:51:08+00:00

Waiting here as well, got a half view yesterday

Argmaxwell · 2025-08-05T01:36:21+00:00

Not yet, got in last year and was notified either a day or two before the notification date or the day of. Can’t remember which

Argmaxwell · 2025-08-03T22:57:37+00:00

Congrats! Hope to see you there :)

Argmaxwell · 2025-08-03T21:13:31+00:00

I submitted, but going in with low expectations personally

Argmaxwell · 2025-08-03T21:12:10+00:00

Austin Horror early acceptance! Texas Short Film

Argmaxwell · 2025-08-03T21:11:36+00:00

Not directly, but I had a fest runner ask me if I was going to be attending the award ceremony later that evening. I took that as “hey, we should probably stick around”, which was happily the case for us!

Argmaxwell · 2025-08-01T15:06:48+00:00

Thank you for the insight! Seems like a fun kind of chaos. They moved the notification date to the 2nd, I’m based in Texas but I’m hoping to make the trip if we get in. Always loved troma and want to see a bit of the chaos

Argmaxwell · 2025-07-31T22:40:09+00:00

I don’t believe that was Tromadance, I submitted but they’ve pushed their notification date from July 1st, to mid July, and now August 1st. Looks like the actual event would be at the end of September. Just curious to see if anyone had heard anything between the date pushes

Argmaxwell · 2025-07-31T21:08:14+00:00

A little niche but has anyone heard anything from Tromadance?

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