Unfortunately, I was absent from this class and missed the chance to work on a preliminary budget. In retrospect, this is something I would have really liked to be a part of as it is such an integral element to building a film festival, and my role as a programmer would be linked to obtaining funds. Alas, there is always next time.

Looking at last year’s film festival – NNIFF – I have chosen to reflect on Chloe’s role, who by the looks of it was working as a programmer as well. From the outset, they look like they’ve taken a similar strategy to what our team is planning on doing in terms of collating films and colour coding them on to a google spreadsheet. This definitely seems like the most straight forward approach – keep everything together, accessible for every team member, and easy to identify even if someone is just perusing.

A good point to take note of is Chloe and the NNIFF team’s choice to look for external public film festivals, and source potential material from there. We hadn’t planned on doing this – outside of sourcing more established director’s with feature films – however this seems like a great approach to take!

Having perused the rest of the roles from NNIFF, I believe there are some great take away that MOFF should consider. For instance, there is a great list of publications that have been contacted, which would take some of the pressure off of us contacting them. Ie, places like Triple R, Eventfinda, Film Ink all spoke about NNIFF, so what would stop them from publicising MOFF as a new festival as well?

Definitely a great source of inspo – I only wish I was able to attend the festival, it sounds like it was fantastic for all involved!

References:
New Normal International Film Festival