Reflections on class Programming This class was spent mainly with the submissions and programming team, as we showed short films we’d found to each other and talked about other short films we liked. I think we are pretty confident that we will be able to find a strong selection of films in the coming weeks. I think that we definitely should’ve spent less time watching short films in class and talking about Richard and spent more time looking for shorts but I think collectively we are all really confident. One thing that we have all found challenging when it comes … Continue reading Programming // fundraiser // announcement // media release

Reflections on class This week we had Mia Falstein-Rush come into the class to talk about film festival programming. Mia’s super impressive resume included being the ‘Submissions & Shorts Programmer’ at MIFF and the director of the Seen and Heard Film Festival. Mia spoke to the class about her experiences programming for MIFF and gave us great information and tips about how to watch, select, choose and source films. Mia’s approach to diversity and equality was probably the most impressive thing for me and I think that Mia’s comments will really change how the submissions/ programming team go about sourcing … Continue reading Programming // Mia Falstein-Rush

Reflections on class MIYFF is up and running, what next? This class was another exciting, but essentially intimidating as we had to start thinking about the fundraiser and how we were going to make money. Talk about the sheer mass of terrible short films probabily took up too much of my table’s time and will probably take up a heap of time later in the weeks to come. After the class I realised that a lot of us were watching shorts in class, which looking back wasn’t the greatest use of our collective time. I also decided to nominate myself … Continue reading Thoughts on promotions and publicity

Reflections on class This week we started to delegate tasks and actually start building the foundation of MIYFF. The submissions team, which included Alice, Maddy, Tristan, Brandon and I had set up and launched the MIYFF filmfreeway account and literally before we knew it, the proverbial dam wall that is free festival submissions had broken and we started being flooded with submissions of all quality. I had been feeling anxious about the prospect of staging a an actual film festival before this week due to our classes’ collective lack of any sort of festival experience but during the class I … Continue reading MIYFF’s alive!?