Two (2) Horrorfest films on the big screen in NYC Oct 10th!

MsManhattan said:
HeroFest started late because we were all waiting on the final submission to be made for more than 24 hours after the supposed final deadline to which everyone else adhered. That was not due to a bandwidth problem.
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uh ... you missed my point ... my point was that Hero Fest started very soon after the uploads - not late ... and hero fest was up and running quicker than any other fest we've had ... so my point was, it seemed things would be winding down by the 10th because things moved faster, not slower.
 
Uh ... No, I got your point. I just thought your point was bogus.



Jack Daniel Stanley said:
uh ... you missed my point ... my point was that Hero Fest started very soon after the uploads - not late ... and hero fest was up and running quicker than any other fest we've had ... so my point was, it seemed things would be winding down by the 10th because things moved faster, not slower.
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Jack Daniel Stanley said:
no one important ... maybe the 17 year old stewardess you run around with but ...
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Yah, I'm playing cards with Michael Jackson and Congressman Mark Foley tonight. :beer:
 
if someone got an offer to put their film in a NY theater showing.. they would be absolutely insane to say no because of horrorfest.

As long as its not online, I dont give a crap... if anyone gets an offer to screen in a theater the smart thing is to take that offer...
 
MsManhattan said:
And just to clarify, HeroFest started late because we were all waiting on the final submission to be made for more than 24 hours after the supposed final deadline to which everyone else adhered. That was not due to a bandwidth problem.
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Yea, who the heck was that guy that we were waiting on to render and upload for Hero Fest.... let me think.... :beer:

If there aren't going to be voters there, I don't think it's a big deal. How could it sway the vote? Now if it could sway the voting somehow then yea, since the prizes are so big this time, I'de say BS.

The DVXuser fests are all about motivating people and getting their balls rolling... I mean getting the ball rolling. Keeping the momentum and getting your entry out to some screenings/festivals sounds like continuous momentum to me.

Sounds like a lawyer might have to type up the contest rules next time. :zombie_smiley:

EDIT: ah, Jarred posted while I was typing.
 
Jarred Land said:
if someone got an offer to put their film in a NY theater showing.. they would be absolutely insane to say no because of horrorfest.

As long as its not online, I dont give a crap... if anyone gets an offer to screen in a theater the smart thing is to take that offer...
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Thank you. :love4:

Blaine said:
It seems to me that it might have been a smarter to wait and start this thread later.
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Dennis Hastert is my agent and he was gonna wait three years, but...

John_Hudson said:
For this Fest we are going to try something a little different. We are going to allow the hype machine to come out. What does that mean ?
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Generating free publicity for your film, by any means necessary! :) Next up: This Is Death Captain Fartman! Spandex glory live at 11!
 
Well, I for one am glad that that is settled.

Congratulations guys! That is fantastic news.

If it wasn't for a 5 hour drive, I'd be there. (who knows, I might anyways!)

Good for you both!
 
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Well, we actually got flack for showing our Sci-fi entry in a DVXuser meeting. People said we were promoting but Jarred has been cool with everything.
No I didn't think anyone would get DQed over this but you know its going to raise questions. Voting ALWAYS takes at least 2 weeks because of the amount of flicks and time people need to get to watch all of them and knowing the amount of people that entered 3 weeks would be expected. The only reason the Herofest started right away was not that Jarred did it in one day. We sat waiting for a few days.
 
i actually have yet to vote in a single Fest. I look forward to Voting.

Is this like a real election? can you vote for yourself? Just curious cause i dont know. And do you have to vote for everymovie for any of your votes to be counted?
 
yikes...i didnt expect some of the way some people would post on here, changed my opinion about some folks...

Didnt mean to cause a ruckus, but seems like me and maybe 2 or 3 others are the only ones who wanted to strictly follow the Rules first and foremost and then ask what was ok after meeting EVERY REQUIRMENT. the rules DONT say alot of things... cmon jack, saying something like, "Well the rules dont say that i cant screen here with this amount of people" thats like me saying i wont be DQ'ed from the contest if i hack into Jarreds server and crash the entire website. I mean the rules dont say that, so i can do that right?

Didnt mean to cause a problem, just trying to pay attention is all.

Sorry :(
 
I don't think there was a ruckus here if you ask me. It was just an observation which everyone is entitled to. You have no control on how someone is going to react.
 
Cynic821 said:
Didnt mean to cause a problem, just trying to pay attention is all. Sorry :(
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Don't be Cynic! no biggie, you were just trying to figure it all out as we all are. :)

Aram Bauman said:
Well, we actually got flack for showing our Sci-fi entry in a DVXuser meeting. People said we were promoting but Jarred has been cool with everything.
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Hey Aram man! Sorry to hear you got flack back then. You were not promoting. No one who showed a film was. Those meetings are little more than campfire chats where we geek out about settings and talk shop. Not promotion.

Jarred Land said:
love is in the air.. can you feel it?
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Haha. It's clear that the user community around here (including me) are seeking a level playing ground and this contest has brought the competitive spirit and magnifying glass out! This has been a great experiment in gurreilla marketing/promotion as well. You can't put a price on that. (Brandon, Jack, 666, Scary, etc. those guys had some clever things that made me check out their threads again and again).

On a personal note, I paid a very high price and ditched my dear parents for two days while they came all the way into the city to visit me so that I could get my film encoded and up by 12 midnight EST on Oct 1. When I saw others had more time to upload because they were having FTP problems, I suppose I felt a little betrayed at first, but then I realized it coulda been me having those FTP problems and how upset I would have been to think all that work would have been wasted on some unexpected technical glitch.

So instead of bitching, most of us who were done on time (or very close) decided to help those who were having FTP issues. That to me separates the children from the adults.

There are good chances that these "post Oct 1 FTP" films might win! And if so, awesome. If they weren't allowed in, I think it would be too hard to avoid the "what ifs." :)

Good luck everyone!
 
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