Greensboro could use a good indie festival - the Carolina Film and Video thing that UNC-G runs is badly managed, poorly marketed and unfriendly to local, non-student filmmakers...
Your best place to brainstorm this idea would be on the TIFN yahoo group (www.triadindie.com) - there are about 200 people on that list...
Greensboro 48 Hour Film Project has an official online home for a
one-stop source for all information, news, networking, getting help
& resources for this years festival.
For teams already registered, you can get all your news from Nisha &
Ed, interact with other teams, list your team profile and find
actors, crew, equipment & locations plus access lists of local
resources.
For people looking for teams, you can post your info, contact
existing teams or form your own.
During and after the actual festival, the site will serve as the
ongoing info-base for the 48 Hour Film Festival so you have one easy
spot to get all the latest info.
When you get to the site, please click the "register" link so you
will be able to post away.
pyrhtml
-I thought of doing film fesitval, though not in Greensboro. More festivals, more interest in local cinema, more people interested in investing and getting the film out there. So yea, festival sounds good.
steven
does your group ever meet? Chat rooms really don't create any momentum of any kind.
It's not "my group", just a loose collective, but TIFN has screenings at the Grean Bean every month and people meet before and after informally. There's also a production workshop that meets monthly and screenwriting group that meets weekly.
There were monthly dinner.networking meeting but the organizers of those dropped them.
I think another non school affiliated (although I am a student at UNCG) festival could do very well. Greensboro is definitly proactive when it comes to cinema. I mean just look at all the megaloplexes we have for a medium sized town. I'm open to any suggestions about names and or themes.
we threw an outdoor film fest a few weeks ago at lyndon street called the potluck outdoor cinema. we are going to do another in the fall probably. we are looking for more submissions as well. there is also harris chewning in chapel hill. av company is awesome, but i dont think they are going to cary the hvx as of recent but things will hopefully change. by chance did anyone attend their 25 year anniversary a few weeks ago? if you didnt, it was amazing and soooo much free food and open bars every 30 feet or so. any of you gboro guys doing 48 this year? the winning team then goes on to compete the national level and is given an hvx to shoot on and if they win the national they get to keep the hvx. oh yeah, my team is good as a mugg, we're in there too. worddd.