Hey there! Things are going really well today! So, I talked to my partner about my interest in poetic docs and properly representing teens, and she loved it! She said, and I quote, "I can see it ahhhh!" At first, she was a bit hesitant because she had never seen a poetic doc, but after watching a few (one of them being Amnesia, which I mentioned in a previous post), she was just as excited as I.
Now, we are working on drafting out some ideas, and brainstorming about how the documentary would be if it were its full length. I'm kind of conflicted about this whole idea because I haven't really been able to find info about the typical length of a poetic doc. The ones I've seen thus far have been relatively short, mainly under 10 minutes, so I'm not sure how our 5 minute extract would work: Would the 5 minutes basically be the entire thing? Ughh, I'm just going to have to put more time into figuring that out and watching some longer ones that have been recommended on various websites.
On the other hand, I have been looking into documentary distribution! While I was waiting to speak with Kass, I delved a bit into where we could start; we would enter our short doc into some local contests and festivals, as well as expand to some more well-known ones. So far, I've read a lot of great things about the following:
1. AFIDOCS - This film festival is 5 days long and located in Washington, D.C. It's primarily for documentaries, which I think will be a great place to have our doc accepted, as the audience will already be looking forward to viewing our piece. Also, the festival welcomes experimental docs, which is what ours (in my mind) is leaning towards.
2. American Documentary Film Festival - This film festival is located in Palm Springs, CA. The organization responsible for the festival supports independent filmmakers, and they opened a fund that can help support them. Since we are beginner filmmakers, ADFF would be a great place for us to start because it is a great opportunity to get funding.
3. Copanhagen International Documentary Film Festival - This festival is great in that they are large, and they support international documentaries. They are dedicated to finding new talent (ding ding, that's us)! They also allow entries for experimental docs, among many others.
Overall, I found the above festivals to be a great start for finding methods of distribution!
See ya next time,
Chey :)
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