So it's week one of visions and here are my things!
Kyle Randolph is a Junior at UNCW, majoring in Film Studies and minoring in Digital Arts. He has written, directed, edited, and starred in a few student short films, and is hoping to bring his enthusiasm to the Visions Film Festival and Conference. This is Kyle’s first year working on Visions, and he hopes to work in PR to create posters, t-shirts, and animations for the festival. Kyle currently films and edits wedding videos with Brick Street Cinema, and hopes to someday work to create a web series on YouTube.
So what I hope to learn in visions this semester is, I guess sort of obviously, how to run a film festival; back in high school I did a lot of Stage Managing, and for some reason film festival-ing seems like stage managing to a certain extent, and I enjoyed stage managing, so I hope i enjoy this.
The reading was interesting, but very repetitive; the basic idea was the creation of film festivals, starting with the Venice Film Festival, and how festivals sort of flowed in and out of the idea of low-budget, not-well-known films and creation of notoriety for newcomers into the film world. I guess it was repetitive because all the festivals fell into the same pattern - start small, gain popularity, fall into the money pit, stick with bigger films. It makes me happy that we can have things like Cucalorus and Visions, that haven't fallen into the pit of big money (and in the case of visions, kind of can't fall into that pit) to keep the small film makers alive and with the potential to become well known.
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