WEEK 10
I decided to take on another job this week because, well, I love chaos and running myself into the ground.  I am now in charge of creating awards and finding a jury to decide which films get these awards.  This is based mostly on the fact that Lighthouse Rentals needed something to sponsor so we had to create a Best Australian Film award.
I’d be remiss in saying I wanted this job.  It was more a case of Cerise running around the room trying to find someone, anyone, to take the job and me being at the farthest end of the rotation to let my guilt really grow.  Luckily we have a tonne of interesting and film-orientated staff at RMIT and Andrew gave me some of his contacts from work, so it should be smooth sailing.  I managed to lock in Adam Ross, chair of AFCA, before the day’s end.

WEEK 11
I had a lovely call with Kaiju in the early class in which they pretty much locked themselves in as our beer sponsor, which was wonderful.  I continued the class on a complete high, working on several different tasks at once, such as helping Grace edit the program, helping Alana lock in the VIP guest list, and creating spreadsheets for the jury.  Grace and I decided to work through the break to get more done, so I tell her I’m going to grab some food and meet her back at the classroom in 10 minutes.
WELL.
Somehow, in the literal ten minutes that I was gone, Kaiju realised that we are Melbourne International YOUTH Film Festival and decided that no, people aged 18-25 should not be allowed alcohol and pulled out.  A week before the festival.  When they’ve known about the festival for over a month.  Cool.  Love that for us.  At this point, there was small group of us all looking for potential alcohol sponsors and sending off frantic but well written and polite emails.  I myself sent off more than 15 before days end.

WEEK 12
The screaming has both stopped and gotten louder.  I worked through the entire weekend helping to finalize the program, trying to get sponsors, and promoting the festival like crazy.  It’s all been worth it though!  The program is ready and looks gorgeous, Remedy Kombucha, Gage Roads Brewing Company, and JnJ have all come on board as sponsors, and our opening night has sold out!  This is actually happening!
Now we just have to stage the actual festival.  So stay tuned to find out if it went ahead…