Film Festivals

Now I can't take all the credit, I worked with a bunch of incredibly talented individuals who helped me shape this experience, we had a team for every side, we had a Finance team, Documentary Team, Hospitality Team, Marketing/Design Team, Liaison Team, Fundraiser, Publicity, Programming and  Social Media. 

Being festival director, I collaborated with almost every single team within our classroom, and worked on a lot more of the "Admin" work to get into the nooks and crannies of the festival, which meant a lot of sponsorship, finance, programming schedules, setting deadlines, managing the team and setting meetings, all of which I surprisingly really enjoyed. All those small tasks truly helped me gain so many necessary skills that make the difference between a producer and a leader, skills that I later took with me when I started to produce short films. I also decided to MC the night to make things a little more interesting, and it was less scary than I thought. When you have the stage light blaring in your eyes, you can't really see the audience. 

Opening night was a crazy day, an early morning start to a late night finish. We sold a total of 400 tickets for our opening night ceremony. That day was jam-packed. We had a few complications with screening the films, but after I had redownloaded all the films and placed them into the appropriate software, and with much help from the techs at the theatre, the rest was smooth sailing. 

Final note, if you made it this far, make sure to swipe through the full 52-page (yes, 52) program, which tells you almost every piece of work we showed throughout our 3-day festival, or you can skip to see the schedule at the end, or have a short light read about our festival at the start.