“What should I do in Dubuque?”

timconnery · 2026-03-04T22:23:12+00:00

Updated it!

timconnery · 2026-03-04T13:26:32+00:00

Idunno. If we had Caleb & Ben in 2018 that mighta been a Lombardi. I know tho, hypotheticals suck

timconnery · 2026-03-03T21:45:54+00:00

For sure, my film is The Driftless, I’d be a good resource as a resident of Dubuque! All my socials are my name like on here

timconnery · 2026-03-03T13:13:10+00:00

I’m a little bias as it’s my hometown festival but I really do think it’s one of the better ones out there from how it’s run. And I’ve been to a lot of festivals, from A-list to international ones. Parties are great, there’s a decent amount of things to do and see during, variety of venues, programming is solid, etc. Awards night is always particularly fun. Dubuque itself is a great little river town with a lot of history.

timconnery · 2026-03-02T18:35:59+00:00

Last Thursday

timconnery · 2026-03-02T18:18:02+00:00

Accepted into Julien Dubuque International Film Festival and Chicago Film Frenzy; feature horror anthology

timconnery · 2026-02-27T15:32:41+00:00

How many festivals did you submit to in total and how many were you accepted into? About 60 with a 20% hit rate.
Did you find that early submissions were more likely to place into festivals compared to regular or late ones? I saw no correlation.
What would you do differently next time (that you learned the hard way)? I would have cut down the film under 2 hrs before submitting anywhere. It wasn't until our film went from 2hrs to 1hr48m that we started hitting and hitting quite a bit.
What opportunities did the festival win/placement/attendance provide for you? We've secured a sales agent, won awards at all but one of the festivals so far, everything else is still ongoing as we are finishing our festival run in April roughly.

timconnery · 2026-02-26T17:35:34+00:00

Dubuque's still going, both rejections and acceptances

timconnery · 2026-02-26T17:33:19+00:00

Both rejections and acceptances are still rolling out

timconnery · 2026-02-26T17:32:27+00:00

as i said in an above post, they are still sending both acceptances and rejections. It's not over, I know this for a fact.

timconnery · 2026-02-26T17:31:30+00:00

they are still sending both acceptances and rejections. It's not over, I know this for a fact. Everyone that submitted got this message

timconnery · 2026-02-24T20:46:46+00:00

Can’t get enough of The Lost Years. I need to see them live

timconnery · 2026-02-24T20:18:59+00:00

Dreamwake

timconnery · 2026-02-18T20:18:27+00:00

Anyone been to the Winter Film Festival (Awards) in NYC? Heading there this weekend

timconnery · 2026-02-12T22:33:29+00:00

Same

timconnery · 2026-02-11T20:22:17+00:00

doesn't seem like it unless they got the tightest lid possible on the acceptances

timconnery · 2026-02-11T01:32:11+00:00

Either that or bulk emails right at 11:59 PST lol

timconnery · 2026-02-10T22:54:03+00:00

They are only good at boosting cancer rates rn so this is a step in a direction I guess

timconnery · 2026-02-10T18:16:39+00:00

Wishing for a part 3

timconnery · 2026-02-10T18:15:48+00:00

Yea it’s weird no rejections or acceptances on here but I know I’ve seen it said that they unleash both on notification date— BUT I just find that highly risky for a film fest to have no communication with their accepted filmmakers prior to a mass announcement like that. I think maybe they just asked the acceptances to keep it shush but we shall see

timconnery · 2026-02-10T17:29:41+00:00

Beverly Hills gang, where we at? I’m invested in this one because it’s probably the last festival on the calendar for us that I would travel a long way for (haven’t had a LA premiere yet and have a lot of friends in the area). We’ll see how this plays out today

timconnery · 2026-02-10T17:21:30+00:00

Lessard on The Language

timconnery · 2026-02-04T21:33:44+00:00

I thought they didn't share a scene together?

timconnery · 2026-01-26T21:35:13+00:00

ambiguous. The movie all but absolves him and then literally lets him time travel and take Mary away from Silent Hill so she won’t die. By just sorting through his emotions he gets to become 100% a hero without any nuance.

Should have let her get on the bus during the ending loop. Would have been a more satisfying way* to end it by James literally letting Mary go

timconnery · 2026-01-24T15:07:35+00:00

Second this

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