How to survive in a Film Market with your Short Film. Lessons I wish I knew. (CF Part 2) (Trip to France part 8)

So you have made a short film?
Finally all those days (or minutes) of writing, all the money spend on pre production (or all the free favours you managed to pull), The 18 hour a day shoots, The rain, or the cold, or the burning sun... Numerous fights with your 1st AD (if you had one), producer and cinematographer... sleepless night of drinking coffee with your editor (or by yourself)... have paid off. Or, have they ?

I would like to think that if you can sit down and watch your film after one or two months and still feel its a good film, then they have. It doesn't matter if it wont make a cent back or if it will get rejected from all the festivals in the world, (remember there is always MUFF :p ). It is your film, and if it makes you happy that is already an incredible achievement.

Here is a limited guy of things I have learn in Uni, Conferences, Forums, but mainly by life experiences, that I hope can help other film-makers if not succeeding at least saving money and time on their process of promoting a Short Film in a film festival or in a short film.

Will your film make it into film festivals ? No one can really tell. But here are some basics that I have observed over the years. I am not saying that you can make a film ''formula' to get into a festival. Make the film you want to make, but keep in mind these points.

THINKING ABOUT THE STORY


Good cinematography + Make it international.
It is an easy way to impress or captivate your audience and the critics, specially if your story is not extraordinary. When a frame looks beautiful, people don't mind waiting. Foreign Landscapes are a bonus. If you are planning to submit your film to an International Film Festival. Think that foreigners will like to see something about your country. I am not saying make a film with all-australian theme. But since you are in Australia, chuck in a couple of panoramics of the city, or sea, or desert, or something that screams "THIS IS NOT "insert name of festival country here", ITS AUSTRALIA". It makes sense for a festival to put your INTERNATIONAL film in their INTERNATIONAL selection.
Free tip: Melbourne is not the only city with trams in the world.


Make a story that makes sense or that makes no sense at all.
But nothing in the middle. If you are trying to make an experiment or to be 'arty', go all the way and may be you will get into the "experimental" or "lab" selection. Did you make a film using only still frames from a camera attached to a cat, that were afterwards dribbled by your 3 year old sister?. GREAT. Otherwise stick to stories that pretty much make sense and are easy to follow.


If is a comedy. make sure it makes people laugh. If is a drama, make people sad.
Pretty obvious eh ? Tell your story to 10 friends. make sure that more than half of them laughed. If not, you got a problem. If one of them pee on his pants, you got a winner. If only your mom laughed, try make it into a drama instead. Comedies are crowd pleaser. Its amazing to hear 500 people laughing because you intended them to. But how will you feel if they don't ?

Have something to say.
Films with a clear message have a better chance with audience. They will go out thinking it was good or bad but they will say " I know what he was trying to say" , and if that happens to be something that they agree with, they will like your film regardless. A lot of films in Clermont Ferrand had social messages, or messages against injustice. A lot of gay/lesbian themes, social injustice, life philosophy, politics, racism, things like that. Controversial topics are a bonus.

What is the message of your film ?, "Happiness is in the little things", it works a lot. "Society has gone to hell and its all shit" works a lot too. My film was saying " We crave for love even when it hurts us".

The shorter is not always the better. 
People don't mind waiting as much as they mind being rushed. Depending on your market people expect a certain pace of the films. A good rule of thumb has always been around 7 minutes and no longer than 15. But European festivals will expect the same stories you can fit on 7, to be around 10. And they don't mind a 18, 22 minute film. If you have good cinematography, its better to give your film a slow pace rather than rushing the story.


Give them something they have NEVER seen before.
Or put them trough situations they have never imagined. After all its one of the things that people go to watch films. May be you have seen it a million times but it doesn't mean they have. For example, there were a lot of Asian films that showed a lot of Traditional Folk and Daily Life. Like, woman working on village that produces tea. Or a Palestinian man deep inside the tunnels of Gaza. The winner of the international competition at Clermont Ferrand was a polish film about an old man and his grandson playing around in the forest and cutting wood during summer.

BEFORE AND AFTER YOU SHOOT


RELEASE FORMS - DO NOT CALL 'ITS A WRAP' WITHOUT THEM
Get all the release forms you can get, for your Cast & Crew. Give them to your 1st AD and force everyone to sign them. Then send the 1st AD to make photocopies of it and achieve them in a very safe dark and dry place. If you don't have a 1st AD - GET ONE. Or pretend that your sound person, or your roommate, or wife/husbamd is your 1st AD and BEG THEM to remind you to do the forms. Most forms can be found if you google cast and crew forms, or write your own one using a template like tropfest one |

WHY ?
6 Months after, when your distributor (or yourself) is sitting in front of the Egoist.tv buyer, who is happy to pay you around 30 dollars per minute of your film for a Russian and federations pay per view licence. He may ask you if you have all the rights and will prefer if you have them IN PAPER.

DID YOU KNOW THAT?
They are particularly strict with your MUSIC CLEARANCES. If you don't have them, unless your film is a masterpiece lined up for an oscar nomination, without music clearances you are giving up all chances of distribution.


PRODUCTION STILLS. PHOTOS. BEHIND THE CAMERAS.
Remember how you took some funny photos of your cast and crew while you were on the first break of day 1 of shooting ? They DO NOT COUNT as production stills.... Making still frames of your movie outtakes DOES NOT COUNT either. Get your 1st AD or yourself, or Dp, or the Neighbour and take some decent Production stills. At least 5 or 10 different ones that you will be happy to use as a temporary poster of your film.

WHY ?
Lets say you get into 3 festivals, if you use the same still its not only boring, but once you are selected you gave away the rights to that still, the chances of them arguing over the rights of your stills are very rare, but you don't want this to happen. You are also going to need the stills for your webpage, for the back of the postcards, for the news articles, for more festival submissions. etc.. its handy.

DID YOU KNOW THAT ?
When I went to Clermont Ferrand I didn't had any stills, I had to take one from an actress facebook photo and use it to submit to other festivals while I was in the market... Embarrassing.


GET YOUR SOUND AND LIGHT LEVELS RIGHT
Play a DVD of your film on someone else house, and sit as far as you can in the room. You should be able to understand all the lines without putting the volume up from the normal 'news' volume. It cannot be too loud either. Loud music on a huge auditorium can get really annoying even when it sounds ok on your headphones. You should also be able to see your film fine, without having to strain in the dark to see what is happening. Watch it on different TVs and or projected if you can.
In my film there was this line " thank you" that it couldn't be heard, and as little as it sound it makes all the difference in the world for the story. I only realised this after I had submitted to a couple of festivals, but while I was fixing it noticed other bits and pieces where far too low.


POSTPRODUCTION AND MARKETING

GET YOUR DELIVERABLES RIGHT
get your marketing and distribution kit as complete as you can, not only carry copies with you on paper, but also digital copies and online copies of it, so that you can email, post, copy, print etc while you are travelling. Here is a list in no particular order of the things you should have

• Your film titles in French, Spanish, German, etc.
• Synopsis, under 250 words, under 500 words and under 1000 words. Also a 1 paragraph one.
• Full cast and crew credits and contact details
• Dialogue list in English and other relevant.
• Music clearances.
• Lots DVD region 0, with and without English subtitles
• A Pro Res version of your film in an online storage
• A Trailer in youtube/vimeo
• A online private pass protected version of your film (in case you run out of dvds)
• A imdb and an M4V (apple TV) file of your film
• Biography of Producer, Director or anyone important you have in your film
• Photos of the director, producer, or anyone important you have in your film
• Director statement
• Your showreel.
• Postcards, and/or posters, and or printed dvd/cases with your contact info
• Business cards for you and your short film
• A mobile phone or skype number to be reached while abroad.
• Any other press you have of yourself or your film.

SUBMIT YOUR FILM !

There are thousands of film festivals around the world and its hard to choose which ones to submit, It can be very expensive in submission fees and postage. There are lots of great festivals that are free, and also quite a bit of festivals are now accepting your film online.

If you are Australian, have a look at this list of festivals, chances are if you make it into one of them, the government film bodies will pay for you to go. Film Vic gives up to 5k for them. (I am still chasing) The list changed drastically last year where a lot of short film festivals were cut. Just go to film vic and look up 'approved festivals' and that will give you the updated info. the link for the PDF is here. Some other information about grants, festivals and events can be found in the Film Victoria Website

Here is a list of some of the sites that you can use to submit.

Withoutabox - All the big festivals are here, specially American. Create an account, its free!

Shortfilmdepot - Only for short films!. (clermont, concorto, sapporo)

Reelport- More european film festivals Overhaussen, ifva, riff,

Here is a list of the top 50 film festivals by Indywire
And top 50 film festivals by Variety

List of some film festivals, links and deadlines by AFTRS FESTIVALS
Here is a guide about how to submit to festivals by AFTRS GUIDE

ABOUT THE FILM  MARKET, DISTRIBUTORS AND BUYERS
A film market it's just that. A place where you go to BUY films. If you have your short film and you want to sell it in a market, it will be like trying to sell your home grown tomatoes in victoria market (Melbourne bigest food market). Unless you have a stand, or sell them directly to a shop, you are wasting your time. Aproaching random people in the film market and selling them your film is the equivalent as a random guy in the supermarket and trying to sell him your tomatoes.

But don't misinterpret. It is good to approach people and talk to them, tell them about your film, and even give them the postcards/cards and dvd asking for their opinion. But if you want to sell your film what you really should do is.... TO GET A DISTRIBUTOR. who will take your film under a range of other films and sell them in a nice package. They will take care of all the paperwork, sell your films and give you a comission.

You can always self distribute your feature film, but self distribute a short film in a short film market its a very long shot. If you do, just make sure you have plently of promotional material and all your papers in order.

Or you can try to get a distributor at the festival, There is usually a list of 'professional attendants' and their contact info on the festival website or catalogues. It is a good idea to drop them an email or note, if they have stands or 'pidgeon holes'. Another good idea is to try to organize meetings during the festival and attend the forums, so you know who is buying, what are they buying and who is selling.

Who are the Australian short film distributors ?..... None !. Aside from FLICKERFEST, who distributes somes of the films that make it into their own festival. By the way, their resource section is AWESOME. read it here. There are some buyers like Movie extra channel, SBS and ABC. When I was in Clermont Ferrand, most countries and even some universities had stands representing their films. It is a bit dissapoiting that there is no Australian presence or representation for short films, oh well. May be I will start a distribution company for short films, I doubt it will be protifable but sure it will be a lot of fun.

LAST WORDS OF ADVICE
Be brave. Learn from your mistakes and don't give up.

You are competing with thousands of filmmakers out there. This year there were around 6500 submissions to the Clermont Ferrand film festival, and about 5000 to Slamdance. They only select about 2 to 5% of the films.
But there is always someone out there that wants your short film and that will enjoy it as much as you do.

Talk to people, get feedback, while you are at the festivals try to talk with as many strangers as you can, keep their details, make contacts, talk about films, watch the films that make it into the festivals, you will be surprised, they are not all masterpieces.

But some of them are,

You can make one of them. ( I will be making some too)

Clermont Ferrand Film Festival (part 1), Journey of a Filmmaker (part 7)

Clermont Ferrand is the biggest short film festival in the World. This year they had 149000 people attending. The city looks like this. A massive black cathedral in the middle.

Spooky

 

 

I made a short film for my parents, " A Bitter Sip Of Life" (yeah you can guess I didnt have a very happy childhood). I really like this film, it has been my best work so far. It made me realize that when you make a film and there is something that you REALLY WANT TO SAY, and that you KNOW FROM THE BOTTOM OF YOUR HEART... the film will be good. (At least for yourself). Here is a trailer of the film

However the judges of Clermont Ferrand, Slamdance and Hong Kong International didn't share my idea... I have submitted to another 5 festivals and still waiting. I hate rejection letters.

However I entered the film into the short film market that runs along the film festival, It's suppose to be the main market for adquisition and distribution of short films in europe. They have a pavillion with stands where the different countries and distributors showcase their shorts, catalogues etc. They also have forums where the buyers and mainly TV channels talk about what they are looking for.  Overall it was a great learning experience. There was no Australian distribution rep or films. There were 2 Australian films selected for the International Competition (out of 81) 'The Kiss' (MIFF winner) and 'Minnie loves Junior'. There was also the Australian Animation 'The Lost Thing'.

When I finally found the 'Maison du la Culture' , the main building of the festival, I was really surprised I have never seen so many people queing up and buying tickets to see short films. I guess it really is a different type of audience. There were whole classrooms of highschool students going to watch the shorts.

It was also a surprise that most of the shorts were OVER 10 minutes and under 25. rather than the usual 7 to 15.  You can see the whole official selection in the online catalogue HERE

Before I get into the details of the festivals, Some photos of the city. I will write later about the films that I saw and the experiences on the market.

More little streets. I bought Ivan a Sweater, a Scarf and a Tshirt for 40E

Spot me ?

Australian Bar Grill. Franchise.

Plaza de Jaude

Trip to France. ( Arriving at Montpellier ) part 6

Still in Paris we took a boat tour at night that went around some of the bridges and main tourist attractions, I should mention that at this point I am getting tired of expressos and carve for a coffee with milk. Even if you ask for a "cafe du cream", its like an expresso with a hint of milk. The only bonus to French Cafes compared to Melbourne is that they usually serve the coffee with a small dark chocolat and a cookie.... *sighs, You can't have everything.

We took a train at night and arrived at midnight at Montpellier. Pretty much crashed in a mattress with Ivan Jr, We have been walking and carrying bags up and down the world. We will rest for a couple of days and then head to Clermont Ferrand Film Festival.

The next day we walk around some of the little old streets of Montpellier, They are so narrow and beautiful, I just want to take out a camera and shoot a movie. I brought a handycam wiht me, but managed to lost the charger to it. Later on here I bought a charger on Ebay France, and paid with PayPal. But apparently they thought it was a fraudulent transaction and they froze my accounts for my own safety.... One week after I solved the issue but the seller had send the money back, and now it's too late, I don't have any video of the trip.

But here are some photos !.

They have a whole area of the city centre that is only for pedestrians. They only allow cars for 30 minutes during the day.

The city is filled with this paintings, awesome effect !.

The streets are on an angle so that when it rains/snows the water runs down the middle.

Somebody divided by 0.

This one is called "The little Arch of Triumph". Supposed to be a replica of the Paris one.

An old roman aqueduct that runs for a couple of kilometers. There are saturday markets underneath.

That night Maurice cook for us a welcome dinner. It was something called  Chucrut it was awesome. Lots of Meat with Colesaw... Also a homemade vainilla slice, and My first French Cheese and Wine. At the start I couldnt tell much of the differences between the wines, but now I am starting to get a basic Idea. Overall the general goal is to drink as much as possible while trying to look completely sober and intellectual.

Mission accomplished.

Montpellier was overall more clean than Paris. Unfortunately they are building extension tram tracks all over the city and the construction generates lots of traffic, noise and dirt. The trams are pretty similar to our Melbourne Trams. The modern white ones. It costs 1.20 Euros for a ticket one way.

One thing that I noticed here that took my by surprise is that between around 12 to 2pm all the shops are closed. Except restaurants. They are close for lunch. But lunch here takes hours, so everything closes. Its unreal. Also on Sunday very few shops open.


When you go to dine at a restaurant you have to be there just after 8 and before 9, or you wont get to try the 'good' menus. For a decent restaurant a meal will cost between 11 to 15 euros. Including Entree, Main, Desserts + Cheese, and usually they take coffee after dinner.

So basically, they spend 2-3 hours dinning, 1 hour having lunch, and 30 minutes for breakfast....

Now that I mention breakfast. Its cafe with one or two slices of bread and butter and marmalade. Thats it.
Lunch is a light lunch, usually salads with a bit of ham. And the dinner is the monster 3 course thing.

Personally, I think is stupid to be hungry for the whole day, waiting for a massive dinner and go to sleep full.

Food and the French its a completely different universe.

By the time I leave to Clermont Ferrand, I am dying for a Burger, or some cheap chinese fried rice. Or a Meat pie!. I hope I can find some 'american' street food there.

We shall see.

Reconciliating with France (the filmmaker journey part 5)

The next morning I went out for a walk, it was 8am and most of the shops were closed. The shopping center only open until 10. In the meantime I waked around and manage to buy a croissant at a bakery. I try to sound french but there is no point in trying to pretend when your 3 year old son is jumping all over the place screaming in plain australian english " I WANT COOKIE, PLEASE, COOKIE, COOKIE, COOKIE".

One thing that I was warned before my trip was to say hello and goodbye to pretty much anyone who meets your eyeline. Specially in shops. This has proven to be truth. As long as you greet, they seem to be pretty nice, not many people speak english, but they recognize some basics, specially young people.


Finally the shopping mall enter and I got into Carrefour, Everything looks cheaper than Australia, even after making the conversion 0.80. to buy a 6pack bottles of water for 2 euros is still cheap. I bought a usb charger, a power adaptor and some snacks for the trip to Montpellier. When I was on the line I realized that they don't provide plastic bags, a bit like ALDI, you have to pack your own stuff. I was trying to see if they sell bags, but I coudlnt see anything. While I am looking a round like a retard, an old, short and heavy guy with an angry look start speaking to me in french. I tell him I don't understand and he picks up my spanish accent and starts speaking some sort of spanish-french that I can half understand.

He is Russian/portuguese, who has been living in france for 50 years after the war with angola. He shows me where the plastic bags are, and then pays 30 cents that I was short and couldnt understand why the cashier kept looking at me. Then he grabs my arm and says "lets go for a coffee"

So I found my self at 10:30, in a cafe in a shopping mall, drinking short expressos (no such a thing as latte here) with a pensioner. He talks for 15 minutes about war, pension, spanish people, and who knows what else, then pays and goes. It was a great way to reconciliate with Paris. At least the people are warm and welcoming. We had to wait around that afternoon until my mom arrived from Cuba. They stop her luggage on the airport and checked everything for cocaine for 2 hours. They even pulled her hair to check if she was wearing a wig. They open all her bags and anything that was in a package, like coffee, took random samples for drug testing. It is humillating, and it comes for free when you have a Colombian Passport.

So we didnt get to see much on the first day, but the next 2 days on Paris were pretty cool. We didnt have time to visit the Louvre, but there are so many things to see and too little time.

Anyway here are some photos of some of the places we went. It is kind of a way of explaning why, at the end of the day, I ended up falling in love with France. The magnitude and beauty of  their monuments, buildings and works of art in general is overwhelming.

I was proud of the Yarra River bridge on Fed Square.... not anymore.

Notre Dame

The Eiffel Tower, We went on elevator to the 2d floor. Its massive.

View from the 2d floor of Eiffel Tower

I forgot to turn on automatic flash. :/

The Arc of Triumph

France, The Dark Side Of The Moon. (part 4)

Charles de Gaulle, Paris Airport is huge and very old. It's nightime already. I walk out the main doors and find Maurice, my mom's husband, waiting for us. It is cold. The waiting lounge looks like a food court plaza. We follow a few electric stairs into the train platform. I can't help but notice how everything is so dirty.

It reminded me of the trains in Sydney. Another thing that I notice is the amount of black people around. Unfortunately this still makes me feel intimidated. I try not to think about it but it can't be helped. We exchange trains, It must be peak hour, lots of people wearing coats rush in and out. So many dark grey coats trigger my instinct of thinking " ticket inspectors ". But they are just normal people.

Suddenly I start listening to the theme of Amelie. Just what I expected from France. Then I realize is live, a couple of musicians travel between the wagons, playing music and asking people for money.... this is very unexpected, to an extent poetic.

We get off the station, the electric stairs are not working and I am carrying all the luggage upstairs, and while we are waiting for another metro/train we see two people running and pressing a button in the middle of a platform. It is the emergency button. Someone has just been robbed.

Welcome to the cultural centre of the world. Land of the kings, cheese and wine.

Finally arrived to our stop. We go out of the metro station to find something surprisingly dissapointing. There are people on the streets selling pirate dvds. I havent seen that since Colombia, back in 2001. Not only that but there are a few people laying on the floor, asking for money. Mostly old people covered in cardboard boxes. It is winter, its almost 0 degrees.

I can't help but think what is the fucking point of having the Eiffel Tower, the Lourve museum, Notre Dame, etc.. if the rest of your city looks like shit.

We have a saying in Colombia that goes something like this: " Even a monkey dressed as a queen is still a monkey"


I go to sleep hoping that talking with people will give me back some of my 'French Dreams' . So far it feels more like the movies 'La Haine' and 'Irreversible'. rather than 'Paris, Je t'aime' or 'Amelie'

Pure French Art

My mom and her husband at Paris Metro.

Ivan is homesick. And to top it off the castle is closed. :)

Journey to France... Part 3 (Flashback: Why did I ended up studying Film in Australia)

I always dreamt of going to France.

The plane landed after 13 or so hours of flight. I have no idea where my biological clock is at the moment. All I know is that I am very tired. All the french I once studied went down the toilet at the airplane. I am minutes away from the inmigration gate. I can already see it, the doors opening and The Eiffel Tower on the background. White couples wearing coats and red hats having coffee and making out while some guy who has to be a film director crosses on a bycicle holding a baguette on one hand.

I have dreamt about this for a long long time.

CUT TO: FLASHBACK/MONTAGE - COLOMBIA

When I finished my highschool back in 1997 I really had no idea what I wanted to study. I was good at writing poems in spanish,but I was good at computers too. I applied to the National University of Colombia, in the capital, my first choice was literature and the second choice Computer Engineering. Fortunatelly I failed the entry exam (I was 15, nobody blamed me) So I had 1 year to prepare for the exam and pretty much doing nothing.

Sometime that year I was watching TV, when a Nobel Literature Prize "Gabriel Garcia Marquez" was on an interview about his writing and his new hobby of writing for television and film. And he said something that changed my life, This is more or less what he said.

" When I wrote '100 years of solitude' (the nobel prize book) it took something like 10 years to reach an audience of 20 million readers... But last week I wrote an episode of tv, and it took a week to reach an audience of 40 million... If you want to communicate a message to society, Film and Television is the way to go".

So I decided to study Film and Television, and I was going to do it in France. So I enrolled myself on the Alliance Francaise and started learning French. At that time it was free to study in France, You just needed to apply and be accepted.

That year both my parents got Kidnapped, my mom for 3 days, my dad for over 2 months. By the end of the year we had nothing and were in an incredible amount of debt... But that is another story.

So I had to stop my dreams of glory in France, My parents pretty much told me: 'sorry, but we have nothing, you are on your own". So I quit studying and pretty much did nothing, I did one year of photography, 1 semester of Computer Tecnology. 1 year of Electronic Engineer... Until one day my Uncle told me of Australia, and the opportunity of Study and Work at the same time.

It sounded promising, so once again I enrolled into a one year English course, and was lucky enough to end up working as a first assistant for a kids educational tv series in Colombia, and only then I realized that I really wanted to be a director.

As it turns out it is not an easy task, in fact, is hard to think of a harder job to aspire to, its like saying you want to be a prime minister, or a CEO... here I am, almost 8 years since then, and I am still trying to become a Director, or at least a sucesful one, or at the very very least one with employment !.

CUT TO: CHARLES THE GAULLES AIRPORT, FRANCE, 2011

So I finally arrived to Paris, Alive, and what is more important, my son survived the trip as well. All the Koreans that came on the plane with me are completely lost and walking down the wrong aisles. I patiently wait for my luggage to come out. I want to step outside NOW, I am already starting to feel I am more intellectual, romantic and artistic than before.

 And then it happens. I step out to the cruel reality of contemporany France... But I'll talk more about it later. Here are some photos of day 1, without spoilers :p

Point Zero, at Notre Dame

Surburban Paris

The Metro @ Paris

Journey of a Filmmaker and his 3 year son trying to make it big in France. Part 2

We only spend one night and one morning in Korea, but it was enough to leave many impressions on me. Here are some random thoughts.

• Seul Airport ROCKS. Free internet, free computers, free kid playgrounds and sleep areas.

Android bunny giving away pens at Incheon Airport

• Just because all koreans bow at you doesn't mean they respect you. (it feels kind of cool though)
• Having a note with 5000 written on it doesnt make you rich

• 

  I am Rich !
  

   
• Inflight entretainment is heavely censured. I watched The Tudors season one and there was no sex.
• There is a loudspeaker next to the toilet seat in the bathroom, if you turn it on you can hear the audio from the tv channel you are on. They must be pretty obsessed with not missing out on films/news/porn
• The don't sell Oldboy DVD at the supermarkets. Nor live octupus. 
• 3 year old should eat kimchi with chocolat for breakfast.
• Those paper 'in case you get sick' bags are SUPER EFFECTIVE.

Everything was clean and everything seemed to work. The hotel Hyatt was awesome and it was all included on the ticket on Korean Air. Melbourne - Paris for 1200 AUD...  Thanks to STA travel.


Overall I feel very intrigued by Korea, I wanted to go to the city but it was an hour trip and |I didnt have time

. I'll have to wait to get into Pusan to pay them a Visit. In the meantime I have to make it alive to Paris, Catch a Train to Montpellier and a train to Clermont Ferrand. For the 2011 Clermont Feerrand Short Film Festival.

Here is a postcard of the film I am bringing with me. It didnt got accepted into the film festival, but I thought I will go and check out the market. You can find my film on the market registered films under "A Bitter Sip Of Life".. But more about that on the next post.

Official Selection of........ :/ nothing so far. God Damn It.