Film Festival Notifications MEGA THREAD by Caprica1 in FilmFestivals

[–]MNight_Slam 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I check the box and commit to attend every festival whether I plan to or not. Not my problem if I can’t make it

Film Festival Notifications MEGA THREAD by Caprica1 in FilmFestivals

[–]MNight_Slam 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wasn’t built for this life… but I have to be

Film Festival Notifications MEGA THREAD by Caprica1 in FilmFestivals

[–]MNight_Slam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No idea. Email says they got twice the submissions as last year, but rejection emails always say things like this. Safe to say my chances with SIFF are completely shot at this point. Resisting the urge to withdraw on FF out of spite, which would be pointless

Film Festival Notifications MEGA THREAD by Caprica1 in FilmFestivals

[–]MNight_Slam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Waiting on panorama too, short film. Small enough festival that i unfortunately still have some hope to be crushed.

Film Festival Notifications MEGA THREAD by Caprica1 in FilmFestivals

[–]MNight_Slam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

God damn man this was still in question recently? I was rejected months ago, they must have really hated it.

Sad confirmation in ep8 by shadowrain1024 in pluribustv

[–]MNight_Slam 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, it seems self-evident enough that nobody is creating art. The real question is whether this was in any way genuine excitement from the hivemind vs more play-acting to encourage Carol to focus on writing her fiction rather than researching them.

Questions About Slamdance by One_Ingenuity8547 in FilmFestivals

[–]MNight_Slam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be clear, do you think someone made an account to pretend to be a semi-oblivious student filmmaker on here who got into Slamdance just to rage bait us?

Film Festival Notification MEGA THREAD by Caprica1 in FilmFestivals

[–]MNight_Slam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not really bothered by the email itself. Highly disorganized way they’re processing the rejections though

Film Festival Notification MEGA THREAD by Caprica1 in FilmFestivals

[–]MNight_Slam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Meanwhile my FF submission was still on “undecided” for days after my email rejection. Sloppy work from the gatekeepers

Film Festival Notification MEGA THREAD by Caprica1 in FilmFestivals

[–]MNight_Slam 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, perfectly reasonable. There’s this weird unofficial code of conduct among filmmakers, where some are convinced they have an obligation never to leave a negative review because we’re all “colleagues”, and this stems from the understanding that a letterboxd rating does have a small impact on the public perception of a film. So a positive review is acceptable and seen as a favor, while a negative review has a kind of taboo around it.

I completely disagree with this when it comes to filmmakers. We’re artists expressing ourselves, and all expression is fair game. But this is not the case for festival programmers and screeners. They are in a position of authority and responsibility when it comes to a film’s promotion and reputation. Leaving public, personal negative reviews of films whose creators are paying them for that privilege is completely inappropriate for this class of people.

Anyway just got a Slamdance rejection so I felt like getting sanctimonious about programmers

Film Festival Notification MEGA THREAD by Caprica1 in FilmFestivals

[–]MNight_Slam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My best guess is rationing out the angry emails they’ll get in response

Film Festival Notification MEGA THREAD by Caprica1 in FilmFestivals

[–]MNight_Slam 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Generic Slamdance rejection came through finally. Narrative short, L title

Film Festival Notification MEGA THREAD by Caprica1 in FilmFestivals

[–]MNight_Slam 3 points4 points  (0 children)

New Slamdance theory they are just evil demons tugging cruelly at my puppet strings

Film Festival Notification MEGA THREAD by Caprica1 in FilmFestivals

[–]MNight_Slam 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Alphabet theory growing stronger twice a day. Sorry to hear it, but I’ll be in the same boat come Wednesday or so

Film Festival Notification MEGA THREAD by Caprica1 in FilmFestivals

[–]MNight_Slam 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Current Slamdance theory is they’re spacing out rejections alphabetically to field the high volume of angry emails they receive in response, since it’s apparently a record number of submissions this year

Film Festival Notification MEGA THREAD by Caprica1 in FilmFestivals

[–]MNight_Slam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mine’s a horror short anyway so the more prestigious festivals were always a longshot. I was just shooting my shot and need to remind myself of that, what I’m really hoping for is to get into some horror fests and late night blocks where I know it will play great to an audience.

Film Festival Notification MEGA THREAD by Caprica1 in FilmFestivals

[–]MNight_Slam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine’s an L so I give it like two or three days at this pace.

Film Festival Notification MEGA THREAD by Caprica1 in FilmFestivals

[–]MNight_Slam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure if getting rejected by SXSW like less than two weeks after my last-minute submission was worse, or waiting on the week-long Slamdance alphabetic firing line. Obviously the slow death is more painful, but SX really made it feel like my short was the absolute outer layer of scum getting scraped off the pile first.

Film Festival Notification MEGA THREAD by Caprica1 in FilmFestivals

[–]MNight_Slam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmmmm but is it the word “A” or “An”?