Brad here.
I have never been to the northeast.
DC Shorts accepted “It’s in the P-I” and they offered to put me up for the extent of the festival.
To keep myself busy I have decided to videoblog the experience.
I have decided to use two different websites to host the content:
and youtube:
Tags: film festival, It's in the P-I, Video, videoblog, youtube
This Sunday the Seattle Times did an article on STIFF, the festival The Hot Dog Cycle is playing in. They used a picture from the film.
We also now have a facebook page for the STIFF showing.
Tags: Brad, Film, film festival, Morgan, seattle true independent, The Hot Dog Cycle
at The Stranger gave us our short It’s in the P-I its first review and surprisingly it was good!
…most interestingly, an exploration of the end of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer through the words of its former staffers.
and then it continues in true Stranger fashion:
Making it all really, truly worthwhile: Love You More, a hot, hot short about young love, hasty sex, and the music of the Buzzcocks.
Tags: Brad, Common Language Project, Documentary, film festival, International Documentary Challenge, It's in the P-I, Morgan
So SIFF and STIFF both have our films up on their respective websites. “It’s in the P-I” and “The Hot Dog Cycle” are both such different movies that fit so well for the festivals they are in. It is crazy that something we made has this life outside of us. It is now something to be marketed and watched by people who may not necessarily have any relationship to us. I am dually excited and scared by the prospect of some random person watching these things we all thought was a good idea to make months ago.
A screen grab of the webpage for our short "It's in the P-I."
A screen grab of the webpage for our short "The Hot Dog Cycle."
You can and should go to both of these screenings as these movies worth seeing on a large screen with other people around and we’ll be there!
Tags: accepted, Brad, Common Language Project, Documentary, Film, film festival, International Documentary Challenge, It's in the P-I, Morgan, seattle true independent, The Hot Dog Cycle
“I’d like to invite Bradley Hutchinson’s IT’S IN THE P-I to be screened as an official selection of the 35th Seattle International Film Festival (May 21-June 11) to be shown during the Short Film Weekend (May 29-31, 2009). All of the shorts will be screened at the new state-of-the-art SIFF Cinema where all formats are brilliantly projected. SIFF is also a recognized Oscar™ nominating Festival.
The Seattle International Film Festival is the largest and most well-attended film festival in the United States with 150,000 attendees expected in 2009. SIFF screens a wide selection of the best new international features and documentaries over the 25-day festival, presenting more than 400 films from over 50 countries. With extensive local, national and international media coverage, the Festival has emerged as one of the country’s most accessible and highly publicized film events.
We would be honored to present your film in Seattle and look forward to receiving your confirmation of its availability. Of course, if you have questions or require additional information please contact me.”
Tags: accepted, Brad, Common Language Project, Documentary, event, film festival, International Documentary Challenge, The Hot Dog Cycle
From the email they sent to us…
Congratulations on being accepted to Seattle True Independent Film Festival! We’re really looking forward to this year’s festival and we’re glad that you’ll be a part of it. Below are some festival details and a list of things that we’ll need from you beforehand.
The festival runs from June 5th through the 14th. We’re still finalizing our program and will be sending out the screening dates for all of the films within the next week. It’ll probably be around 2 weeks or so before tickets are available for purchase. We’ll send an update with firm dates once that gets worked out. ..
STIFF will select the winner of our festival and present that filmmaker with the Grand Jury Award. The winner will receive a 1 hour meeting with a Hollywood Video acquisitions executive (travel not included).
Grand Jury Award
The award ceremony will be on Saturday, June 13th at 6:15 PM. There will be some films shown after the awards. You will get in with your filmmaker’s badges and we’ll have some tickets available for purchasing as well.
Press contacts
We will continue to hound the local press (in a good way) but you are welcome to reach out to them as well to promote your screening. We’ll be sending out another email with a list of press contacts before long as well.
Q&A’s
We love them and so do our audiences. If you and/or someone close to the film could do a Q&A after the film that would be great. Our audience loves the interaction with the filmmakers, crew, and cast and we feel it’s a big part of the experience for everyone. Just look for one of our crew or volunteers the day of your show and we can work out the details.
Badge Info
Each filmmaker will receive a pair of all-access badges.
Tags: accepted, event, film festival, june, seattle true independent, The Hot Dog Cycle
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