Mia Falstein-Rush came in to give us a guest lecture and also fix all the problems I was having with the sponsorships.  She has done literally everything I’d like to do in film festivals including creating the one-off Seen and Heard Film Festival which spoke directly to my little feminist heart.

Her lecture included a whole chunk on how to get sponsorships, how to write emails, she even included companies we could get in contact with!  I wrote up an email draft that is ripped directly from the structure she presents in her lecture that everyone can access quickly if they have a sudden stroke of sponsor genius!  I was honestly so inspired by this lecture, it really included everything I was interested in, everything I wanted to know, and again, everything that would fix the issues I’d been having.  This was easily one of the best lectures I’ve seen in my time at RMIT.

I’m sort of disappointed that I’m not a part of the programming team.  This is where most of my interest lay when we began, and I did put my hand up to be a part of the team originally, however, I think my missing a week and a half of classes really put me at a disadvantage.  I’m glad I’m working on sponsorships now, and there is a LOT of work to be done, but I see how much fun the programming team is having watching films in class and I can only wonder what could have been…