IAC DISCUSSION FORUMS

That's why your films are always worth watching ... you give a lot of thought to the mechanics of telling the story with whatever technology you use. Bless you Dave :-) Michael - VR stand for Virtual Reality. You need specialist equipment to get the full viewing experience, like the Meta Quest 3, e...

Cheers Dave. I'm always curious with new tech. I love watching movies in 3D, so going VR was a natural step. But it does have its many challenges, and they're not all technological. Creating a story that works in VR is almost as big a challenge as shooting the film.

I've shot a film called 'You Can Cancel at Anytime' in 3D 180 VR. I've managed to get it selected for 4 Festivals so far, where they have VR equipment to allow people to access the film. It seems to have gone down well. But finding festivals that will do this is near on impossible. Has anyone else v...

Yeah this is very common. I get these emails on a daily basis also. Sites like Filmfreeway have your details and festivals can tap into that list of emails for a fee. Even when festivals mention my actual film by name, I still take it with a pinch of salt. I also get fests contacting me via my socia...

The reason why a lot of festivals have the time limit on them, is purely down to wanting to be more current. Most festival want to have that premiere or that UK/European/World exclusive in the hope that it gets more bums on seats. BIAFF isn't the only fest that doesn't apply this restriction, thankf...

Hi, this is a great source of Film Production templates - https://www.freelancevideocollective.co ... ion-forms/ - not sure if the one you are after is there or not?

Howard-Smith wrote: ↑Wed Jun 19, 2024 2:10 am Geoff, I wish you WOULD name names regarding festivals which reject films without even watching them whilst retaining the entry fee. This is thoroughly reprehensible behaviour from money-grabbing fraudsters, money that I personally can ill-afford to lose.

I'll DM you Howard

I have known of big name festivals that charge lots of cash for you to submit your film, only to have never watched your film when they reject it and still keep the entrance fee. I won't name names, but I will not submit anything I make to those fests anymore. I have worked on a couple of festivals ...

Yep. My film 'Dead Air' has always received feedback that it was not long enough, and that the audience wanted more. But that was always its aim.

Cheers Martin, appreciate the feedback. I took a lot of the feedback provided and made changes to the film. So i'm hoping that things may be more clearer now. I also realise that as a standalone film outside of the "anthology" it is intended to be a part of, is maybe not the right place fo...

I was unable to make BIAFF (again!) this year. It always seems to clash with a Goalball Tournament, and as the coach... my team needs me. :-) I'd be very interested to hear anyone's thoughts on my film 'The Little Ones' that was screened on Friday night. I'm just making some final tweeks to it, so a...

Just thought I would throw this out here, see if anyone is interested. I'm currently trying to crowd-fund a web series called 'Frightseers'. It's basically 42 short films. It's rather ambitious.. even for me! But if you are interested, here is a link to an article all about it. :-) https://blazingmi...

That's a fair point Dave. I do think it's worth investigating though. We're still providing people with a rating regarding their work, maybe non-members get a limited critique, with members getting a fuller one? Just thinking of ways to encourage people to become a member, and I do feel the crown in...

Perhaps we need to make BIAFF entrants aware that the competition can only survive if more of them become IAC members. I'm gonna make my suggestion again (which I have done a number of times in the past)... I've always said that written feedback on a BIAFF entry, should be provided to IAC Members o...

Here is the link to festival that my students are running - https://filmfreeway.com/Homebrewfilmfest They are keeping the entry fee's low, as well as holding the event as a big screen affair. From what I see, festivals tend to advertise predominantly on social media, like Facebook, Twitter and Insta...