I LOVE Flower Found! Been waiting on your NG page for YEARS seeing if it'll drop!
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Aah thanks man! :D And sorry for the loooong wait!
I absolutely adore PIG! Once again, I think it's one of the best environmental satires I've seen in recent memory, entertaining and not coming across as "preachy" for those that need to hear the message the most!
Aah thank you! :D It is great to hear you didn't find it preachy, it was something I was trying to avoid at all cost haha
Great to see your stuff at NG again! I watched both films at ITFS when they were screened there (also Plas at the Night of Shame) and they were absolute highlights for me.
Emrox
Wow those are some big-name film festivals! (and like 50 more I've never heard of!) What was your process for submitting to all of these international film fests? Like did you have a big list and just send it in to everything you could think of, or did you screen it at a couple of things and then people came to you? I've only ever done a small handful of theater screenings (like four) and most of those were from people randomly emailing me to submit a specific thing, so I'm curious how people who are serious about festival stuff actually go about getting their cartoon out there.
And did you get a chance to go to some of these? Any fun stories?
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Hey Emrox! :) For Flower Found I did the festival distribution myself, but for PIG I got a grant so I could afford someone to do the distribution for the film. I definitely recommend submitting to all the bigger festivals but you will have to fill in a lot of forms. For a lot of smaller festivals there's also this amazing website called FilmFreeway! You just fill out all the details for your film once and then you can submit to as many festivals as you can find with just a few clicks. Sometimes I also get emails from people, and I am always happy to send them my film, except if they ask for a fee, which is rarely worth it.
I did visit a lot of festivals over the years! I go whenever they invite me and arrange accommodation and/or travel. And so I find myself in countries I would never think of going to! Last year with PIG I went to Azerbaijan, Los Angeles, Kosovo, Spain, Germany, Czech Republic, Belgium and France. With Flower Found! I made a beautiful train trip right through the Alps from Animafest Zagreb to Annecy and I even went to Cannes as part of a program from Animation Nights New York. Same year I also went to OIAF, visited the NFB and was attacked by a raccoon! I also went to Japan twice, Hiroshima and Kyoto. With an older film called Quacksalver I went to a Ukrainian festival called KROK which took place on a old cruise ship in Russia. Lots of stories! Some of these festivals I just found on FilmFreeway, so it is definitely worth checking out!