hm how do I feel about submitting my own work to festivals. Well as far as this class goes, I'm not planning on sending any of the projects. I thought the first assignment was a great exercise, but I'm not proud enough of that to pay for festivals and spend the time to promote it. The self portrait... no. Kristina is planning on sending off the music video, and I don't know what Royce's plans are for the installation. The project that I am planning on sending off is my senior seminar sea turtle project, and oddly enough I'm really nervous about it even though I just got off a festival run for an intermediate project. After the festivals for Foot Not Bombs, Andy and I were starting to feel pretty confident in ourselves, but now I'm starting to get nervous about it, especially now that I've gotten all of my friends and family involved with the sea turtle project through kickstarter. I guess I'm worried that Food Not Bombs mainly got into festivals because it was an awesome controversial topic, rather than our actual filmmaking skills. So I am concerned that sea turtles as a topic is not exciting enough, or that it doesn't have an argument in it, and without that I am not sure that my skills are enough to get it into festivals. I'm just afraid that I'm getting everyone hyped up for it and it may completely flop. I guess that's life though.
Aside from that, I am totally excited to get back on the festival circuit. It was one of the best experiences I've ever had, and I just felt respected and treated like a professional at the festivals, not to mention all of the contacts that I made and the things I learned about other areas of filmmaking that I didn't know. And of course, it was amazing to see so many awesome films for free!
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