On Monday I received word (email) that Hi8 1/2 has selected for screening at the 5th Annual West Chester Film Festival. Very good news!! One out of eight festival tries was accepted. Not a very good percentage, but it got into one and it will be screened for an audience other than one that I cobble together. That's very encouraging and tremendously uplifting to my sagging, independent-minded spirits!
To be honest, I was going to give up on the thing...or at least take a step back and rethink what to do next: do more re-edits? wait a while then start submitting it to other festivals? I'll probably do both of these, but I am more interested in experiencing the screening next weekend, April 24 - 26th, and documenting that process.
The West Chester Film Festival seems like a small operation (from my dealings with them through phone calls and emails). However I have to hand it to them to communicating to me that my doc was too long for their "shorts" festival and that if I could get it under 30 minutes, then they would have another look at it. I'm glad they were able to offer this choice to me, and doubly glad that I actually followed through. As I said in my last post back in February, even though there are holes in the piece, it is still much stronger than the 48 1/2 minute version.
I think it's poetic that Hi8 1/2's first screening is in my hometown! Perhaps this is just the springboard it needs.
More to follow, in the days ahead...
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