As a member of the programming team, I was mainly responsible for the selection of the short films with my other two team members. Besides of that, I was also responsible for downloading and uploading all the short films to our google drive folder after the selection had been made, so that they could be shared with the people in charge of the screening venue. I’ve also organised the files into 3 different folders for 3 days of the event, with their file name renamed in the order of screening, making it easier for the staffs to access.

The download process did not went as smoothly as I thought it would, as some of the submitters did not submit their films in FilmFreeway’s default format (YouTube and Vimeo), so I could not request downloading the film directly from the submitter on FilmFreeway as I could with other films, and had to send them an additional email asking for the original file of their film. However, several of the submitters have not responded to the emails we sent from the beginning, which posed some challenges to my work. Luckily, our tutor managed to help me with this.

Although this contribution was not a big one, it was more mentally oppressive for me because at the time I was doing this there was only two days left before the opening night of our festival and the process of communicating on emails required extra times which was an unknown for me at the time, so I was very worried that something might go wrong, but fortunately the film ended up being screened without incident.