I'm in a class that teaches you how to run a film festival. It's called the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival or MUFF. My duties were to watch submitted films and rate them a Yes, No, or Maybe. There was a lot of Nos out there but it was great to see so many submissions from all over the place like Canada, Germany, Argentina and even Croatia! My other tasks were to find sponsors for the festival. I went around asking for donations in exchange for ad space. Most of the donations were in the form of a gift card because we had a raffle at the festival too. I managed to get River West Film & Video to donate a $50 gift card, Exclusive Co to donate a $25 dollar gift card and Wade's Guitar Shop to donate $100 which we split in half. Half into a gift card and half into our general MUFF fund. Since we are not the most highly funded organization I thought splitting it would be a good idea. I also help put together/run fundraisers like bake sales and rock shows. I got Lord Brain to play for us like I mentioned in my Record Store Day post.
My favorite filmmaker of the festival was Robert Todd who's piece "Cove" screened at our Saturday afternoon program. Here is a clip from "Cove" from his vimeo.
His style is very beautiful and it kind of reminded me of my own works in progress. His style can even really be pin pointed but I get so engaged with his work and shots that it doesn't really matter. It reminds me of my work because of its seemingly randomness and lack of concentrated characters. It's much more clean though where he is filming. So I may strive to be the dirty Robert Todd. Finding beauty in squaller.
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