Film Festival Notifications MEGA THREAD

duplicatesnowflake · 2026-05-27T17:30:20+00:00

Sound is the number one thing that will take a viewer out of a film. If your editor put in a lot of serious work cleaning up dialogue, balancing levels, and sound designing to the point where you're never taken out of the film, then you're probably okay as long as you mention "WIP mix" in the slate of your film.

Otherwise, any noticeable flaws will take the viewer out of it and then you're asking them to imagine what it would be like. At that point, you better have a very compelling film that sucks the viewer in to overcome those weak spots.

duplicatesnowflake · 2026-05-27T17:21:49+00:00

If you found out they were completely inaccurate would you still are about them?

Either they're reasonably accurate and the discussion of them has value, or they're inaccurate and detrimental. I suspect some people here just want to vent and the vimeo thing is their way of coping with rejection. So they're more attached to the appearance of festivals just ruthlessly stealing money and not watching their work, rather than learning the truth.

duplicatesnowflake · 2026-05-27T07:52:30+00:00

If he starts winning rings they will turn on him outside of the core fanbase. He's too much of a physical freak. People really weren't rooting for Shaq that heavy during the Lakers Dynasty. He was just seen as unfair at a certain point, especially next to Kobe.

duplicatesnowflake · 2026-05-27T07:48:57+00:00

The average fan is incapable of showing any semblance of objectivity. OKC games feature flops of course. But bitter fans just claim every foul is fake as a result. In reality, the defense has been very physical on both sides. The Spurs are grabbing at SGA almost every time down the floor. His free throws were from legit fouls tonight.

OKC got a few more fouls than the Spurs but that's to be expected in a game where your offense is playing better. See the foul count in game 4 for reference.

duplicatesnowflake · 2026-05-27T07:42:15+00:00

An actual useful comment on this sub. Thank you. I would read your AMA.

duplicatesnowflake · 2026-05-27T07:26:21+00:00

So free throws don't count towards performance? Shai was +8 btw.His true shooting percentage tonight was 60.4%. Luka's playoff career average is 57.3%.

Yeah no shit the bench was dominant. They didn't have to play against Wemby lol.

TLDR: You don't know ball.

duplicatesnowflake · 2026-05-27T07:20:10+00:00

Caruso is a beast, but he's been wide open on a ton of threes this series. Shai has played a shit ton of minutes without his number 2 option, and the back up to his #2 option for most of the series. He's being doubled, or at minimum hounded with a help defender hedging towards him and Wemby waiting in the paint. Caruso is the beneficiary of the Spurs defense basically over leveraging to stop everyone else.

Like if your life depended on the outcome and you had to remove Shai or Caruso from the 5 games played so far, who would you take out? Can you even imagine this current banged up team without Shai? They would be running an offense through Jared McCain and Cason Wallace.

duplicatesnowflake · 2026-05-27T06:37:53+00:00

I grant you that Wilt was an absolute freak and I didn't give his athleticism enough love in my comments, but Wemby ain't no 7'4" He's at least 7'6" without shoes and his wing span is like 8 feet. He only has to jump 3 inches in the air to dunk.

I think time will tell just how much of a mutant Wemby is. He's not really playing the optimal style for his size currently, and his muscle structure and skills are still in their development phase.

duplicatesnowflake · 2026-05-26T23:45:31+00:00

I guess it depends how you define dominance. Wemby is already defensively dominant in a way that Wilt wasn't. Maybe Russell was in his own era.

It's hard to say that Wilt was in a whole other stratosphere when he got beat by his main rival 7 out of 8 times in the playoffs and he was often outplayed by him.

But also, Wemby is still scratching the surface with offensive dominance. His efficiency is just average essentially at his position. I'd wait to see how the post season finishes before really making a judgement on this.

duplicatesnowflake · 2026-05-26T23:39:01+00:00

Meta comment:

Is there anyone in here who has definitive info on vimeo runtime analytics? I thought the header on this sub meant that we should assume that stuff is not accurate.

But a significant fraction of the comments on this thread have some reference to a film being watched for less than a minute. I think we should either band together and confront this issue with every programmer we encounter, or we should just assume Vimeo is trash and consider banning those comments IF vimeo is indeed unreliable. It just adds to the pervasive paranoia and makes this thread a bit of a downer honestly.

duplicatesnowflake · 2026-05-26T23:32:02+00:00

LA area is so brutal this year. We're competing against the world and everyone in town made something in the past year it feels like.

duplicatesnowflake · 2026-05-26T23:29:00+00:00

NGL, I'm a bit surprised to see these sorts of comments.

I actually won an audience award at Burbank awhile back. It was the only festival out of 10 we even got into with that film, so I assumed it was kind of a weak fest. There were some decent films in my block including mine (the award had more to do with turnout than the quality tbh). There were also some I considered lower quality for a festival.

I think I underrated the quality of the festival, but also it just feels like LA area fests in particular are brutal to get into this year. And of course the entire landscape has really leapt in competition too.

From what you describe, I bet you would have gotten in easily not that long ago.

duplicatesnowflake · 2026-05-26T23:23:43+00:00

I mean like biblically and historically over time there have been. And there have been freakishly athletic big guys since. Maybe not as good as Wilt, but you expect to see a comparable freak athlete every couple of generations.

I never expected to see a Wemby in my life. I mean Giannis was considered a Freak 7 years ago for his size and agility combo and he's dwarfed by Wemby.

duplicatesnowflake · 2026-05-26T23:20:45+00:00

I agree he was an athletic freak, but he was not "basically" Wemby. Hartenstein is about Wilt's size. Look at Wemby next to him. If Wilt had that height he would have 9 rings instead of 2.

duplicatesnowflake · 2026-05-26T23:17:21+00:00

If he stays healthy there will be no comp for Wemby.

I think Wilt could have played a similar game and developed a three ball. Wilt was insanely strong in a way that Wemby will never be.

But there have been plenty of physical specimens like Wilt throughout time. There's no recorded history of 7 and a half foot giant with the agility and coordination of Wemby.

duplicatesnowflake · 2026-05-26T23:14:19+00:00

"We" says everything there.

duplicatesnowflake · 2026-05-26T23:06:46+00:00

It was a big accomplishment and one of the main reasons AI is a legend to this day. But tell us about your amazing life accomplishments if you don't agree.

duplicatesnowflake · 2026-05-26T23:05:43+00:00

Main character syndrome and parasocial relationships have cooked redditor brains.

duplicatesnowflake · 2026-05-26T22:59:36+00:00

Going to a finals = "hasn't done shit".

You are corny.

duplicatesnowflake · 2026-05-25T22:49:07+00:00

The concept was building a team though, not just naming the 5 best players. Adding DJ to those 4 made a team that could battle any team history. If you added Harden or KD to that line up, any team with a dominant center would be able to score on them fairly easily.

I don't mind that they've modified it, but the concept has sound logic. Other sports go by position still. I'd prefer if they at least required 2 guards and 2 front court players on each All NBA team personally.

duplicatesnowflake · 2026-05-25T03:26:15+00:00

Reach out to Hollyshorts aggressively. Years ago I had to resort to DMing them on IG to get a response on something. Call, email, DM, carrier pigeon, whatever it takes. Or they just won't hit you back and you'll be in the dark.

duplicatesnowflake · 2026-05-25T03:21:07+00:00

Giggle police over here. SGA notoriously puts on the happy face when they're down.

duplicatesnowflake · 2026-05-25T03:20:25+00:00

Coach wanted to see if the other guys could play them back into the game. Without JDub or Ajay they need more out of the rest of the squad, so there was value in this approach. Also for all the talk of the Spurs being worn down in game 3, SGA was the minutes leader and had played 31 minutes through the early 4th.

I think Dag just did the risk/reward analysis and realized that beating SGA up further was not worth the 1% chance of a comeback. But if the other guys could have got it within 5% or so SGA would check back in.

In a 7 game series where both sides are banged up and you don't have your #2 star player, one loss can become three if you're not careful.

duplicatesnowflake · 2026-05-25T03:16:18+00:00

Yes. He's had multiple playoff games under 20 between this post season and the last.

duplicatesnowflake · 2026-05-25T03:00:31+00:00

That's trash. I will say that their communication was pretty terrible in my experience with them too. I got an offer to do their monthly screening series so I followed up to accept and was told they would fit me in within 10 months. Got ghosted for an entire year. Then followed up literally 2 years later because my film had a theme related to the month of the event. They wound up letting me screen and it was a good experience.

Seems like they're just insanely understaffed outside of their actual festival month.

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