Indie Roar

It looks like I am actually going to build this festival. I wonder how it will play out. Right now, I need to figure out what I want to offer in the actual website. I think that I will have a main page with entrants getting there own page which will have a bunch of features on it including their film available to view. It's an interesting challenge to design something like this. I used to work with architects to design real estate. This is pretty different. I hope that I can figure out how to make my way of organizing work with the programmers.

The thing that I think is cool about this idea is that it helps resolve several of the main problems of Short Films. First, now that the short is complete, what can you do with it? Second and the main problem being no one ever gets to see them. With this site, artists will, hopefully, be able to have their film available at a high resolution for public consumption. I think also that this will be a good forum for new filmmakers to meet each other. Also, if they read my blog possibly learn from my bitter experience as I pontificate into the great void that is the INTERweb....

Or this is a complete waste of time and no one will care or enter. I think that I will offer $2500 to the first prize winners in three different categories; drama, horror and comedy. If I can, I will get some sponsors to offer me some additional prizes for 1st and 2nd prize winners as well. I really want B & H Photo to give me some gift certificates for the winners. If they don't, I'll probably just buy them and hand them out.