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Tonight was the screening of the film contest winners.
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corivax, xiadyn and I drove up to Keystone and took the ferry across from there to Port Townsend. I'd never been on Whidbey Island, so it was a nice and scenic, if not particularly direct, trip. The ferry ride across was wonderfully windy and rolling. Port Townsend seems like a very cool little town, though we didn't see too much of it. The kind of place I'd want to live if I was going to live in a small town.
After being confused by a misleading Yahoo Maps map we found the theater where we met up withxmurf and ilmarinen. The seating was limited, so we were all issued queue numbers. There was going to be an outdoor screening for those who couldn't get in, but it was already pretty cold at 5:30 while the sun was still up. xmurf and I got reserved seats as filmmakers, but the others were on their own. Just as we were entering datavore and loree arrived. Unfortunately they just missed the cutoff, but everyone else made it in and were even able to get seats near each other.
The screening was fairly chaotic. And most of the entries... weren't that good. It felt a lot like the monthly open screening. Overall I'd say we were second or third best, depending on how you balance plot vs. production values. Not too surprisingly, we certainly had the most plot-ful entry. (Really too plot-ful for 10 minutes. I don't begrudge the first place winner their distinction. They deserved it.)
The prizes for all winners were a Port Townsend Film Festival poster (which I will definitely be getting framed) and a year's subscription to Filmmaker Magazine. The overall winner also received a set of Star Wars pez dispensers.
It would have been nice to be able to chat with the other teams, but it was quite cold by the time we got out and the outdoor screening was still going. Maybe next year they could host a luncheon or just set a time for us to meet at a local cafe.
A wonderful night drive along winding rural highways to the Kingston ferry followed, punctuated with momemnts of delicious possible lostness and nicely scored by Violator, the best night driving album ever. Ferries at night are even more elegantly spooky than busses. Big, echoingly empty, harsh flourescent lighting cutting you off from the dark. The drive home from Edmonds along I-5 was a bit of an anticlimax after all this.
So that was our first film festival. We're moving up in the world as amateur filmmakers. I'm almost able to think of myself as a filmmaker now without mentally adding caveats. Sometime this week I need to see if we can get into IMDB for this. It certainly should count, if I'm reading their criteria correctly.
The movie will be posted on the Midgard Studios site sometime in the next few days.
corivax, xiadyn and I drove up to Keystone and took the ferry across from there to Port Townsend. I'd never been on Whidbey Island, so it was a nice and scenic, if not particularly direct, trip. The ferry ride across was wonderfully windy and rolling. Port Townsend seems like a very cool little town, though we didn't see too much of it. The kind of place I'd want to live if I was going to live in a small town.After being confused by a misleading Yahoo Maps map we found the theater where we met up with
xmurf and ilmarinen. The seating was limited, so we were all issued queue numbers. There was going to be an outdoor screening for those who couldn't get in, but it was already pretty cold at 5:30 while the sun was still up. xmurf and I got reserved seats as filmmakers, but the others were on their own. Just as we were entering datavore and loree arrived. Unfortunately they just missed the cutoff, but everyone else made it in and were even able to get seats near each other.The screening was fairly chaotic. And most of the entries... weren't that good. It felt a lot like the monthly open screening. Overall I'd say we were second or third best, depending on how you balance plot vs. production values. Not too surprisingly, we certainly had the most plot-ful entry. (Really too plot-ful for 10 minutes. I don't begrudge the first place winner their distinction. They deserved it.)
The prizes for all winners were a Port Townsend Film Festival poster (which I will definitely be getting framed) and a year's subscription to Filmmaker Magazine. The overall winner also received a set of Star Wars pez dispensers.
It would have been nice to be able to chat with the other teams, but it was quite cold by the time we got out and the outdoor screening was still going. Maybe next year they could host a luncheon or just set a time for us to meet at a local cafe.
A wonderful night drive along winding rural highways to the Kingston ferry followed, punctuated with momemnts of delicious possible lostness and nicely scored by Violator, the best night driving album ever. Ferries at night are even more elegantly spooky than busses. Big, echoingly empty, harsh flourescent lighting cutting you off from the dark. The drive home from Edmonds along I-5 was a bit of an anticlimax after all this.
So that was our first film festival. We're moving up in the world as amateur filmmakers. I'm almost able to think of myself as a filmmaker now without mentally adding caveats. Sometime this week I need to see if we can get into IMDB for this. It certainly should count, if I'm reading their criteria correctly.
The movie will be posted on the Midgard Studios site sometime in the next few days.