DC Shorts Film Festival

Tits McGee is on vacation, I'm Veronica Corningstone.

By Taylor on March 14, 2008 11:37 AM | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

First, and I have to get this out of the way: I went to a screening of Forgetting Sarah Marshall last night, and OH MAN. Go see this when it comes out next month. Full of awesomeness and win. Jason Segel rules my life.

Second, Spring Break also rules my life, as in that's where I was. Finally! Some time to relax, avoid doing homework, watch some movies...and panic about being homeless next year! Oh no!

But, after a week and a half away from the office, am I happy to be back. And today was a pretty good day! It's great to see how a film festival is really coming together. We had a meeting today, and we're already starting to plan for the festival this September - it sounds great! Fancy parties, simultaneous screenings...It's going to be amazing. We're starting to get in touch with the volunteer judges - including yours truly - to have an ice-breaker coming up. I've taken a look at a few of the films, and they're so good! I can't wait to see what makes it in.

We also talked about the new electronic judging system, which hopefully won't be anything like the Florida or Michigan primaries. Ooh, I'm so topical! It sounds so great, though. The judging system is really going to allow films to be judged based on their own merit and potential, and not just how they compare to other films. I can't wait to check out the software, when it comes in.

We're going to have so many films - more and more come in every day - but we don't have a lot of screenplays yet. What a shame! As a budding screenwriting (and cinematographer and all-around Awesome Being Person), I think there's so much opportunity here. The prizes are great: $2000, your screenplay produced, and some great feedback. You don't have to write the next Crash (please, don't!), just something 15 pages or less. You can do that in a week! I did that in a week! I'm so cool.

With all of this cool stuff starting to happen, I'm glad that I was able to get my vacation out of the way. Now I can dedicate myself to being awesome and helping out with the fest. Also, finding a place to live next year. Otherwise every day might be a vacation.

Okay, yay Kurt, for again guessing the film. Not that anybody else really enters. I will perservere! I will not give up! I will give you your next shot! And it's not so easy, for all you youngin's.