My Festival Premiere

Well the film hasn't played yet but I'm at a festival. And it's kind of lame.

As for the film's premiere, as an update to the Sarasota story, the Sarasota 350 has formed its own festival. The Sarasota Fringe Film Festival and Fifth Form will be screening there. I'm very pleased that this came about and am awaiting word on when the film will be screened before I decide if I'll attend. They might have to show films around the clock and I won't be able to go if Fifth Form ends up playing at 3 AM. So, we'll see. I am desperate to sit in a theater with people watching the movie again though. So, I hope it will work out.

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090310/article/903101068

As to South By Southwest, it combines the films with the interactive festival at the convention center and it's pretty bleak. Lots of people putting their poster over other people's poster. They won't let me in to panels without a badge for the whole festival. This particularly hurts because I had set up meetings with several panel speakers and now I've only been able to get in touch with one of them to tell them that I have to change plans.

But I did manage to set up a new meeting with a Marketing and Distribution that specializes in Independent as well as the sales agent that I'm meeting with in an hour. So, wish me luck bloggees.

Being here basically reminds me of the old internet days. Alot of people selling alot of nothing. Oh plus a Starbucks and an American Apparel kiosk. Weird choices.

A lot of very pale skinny guys and not very many women. And all those silly badges.

Because they don't show films here but spread the films out all over the town, there also doesn't seem to be a centralized focus for the film part of the festival. This is true for the music festival too but the music festival really does take over every venue in town so it's centralized by nature of the fact that it's everywhere.

Perhaps, I'm also disappointed to be here even though the film isn't screening but I won't admit to such pettiness.