I know it's silly but I can't seem to focus on anything else today. I'm personally competing against 38 other feature length movies in the category of Narrative Feature and against all other movies (100+) in the categories of Best Director and Best Screenplay.
Others in my cast and crew will be competing in the Best Actor and Supporting Actor categories as well as for editing, cinematography, production design, and sound. I'm disappointed they don't have an award for best musical score because my composer did a helluva job.
In any case, wish me luck!
Quick question for you. Looking up the details on IMDB about your movie, I see that it was made in 2015. Is it normal for independent films to have to wait 2+ years to get nominations such as this?
And those nominations are nothing minor; the judges/committee must have been impressed me to have chosen them.
Wish you well on selection night.
The selection committee than chooses from among the movies that were submitted, accepting enough movies to fill out their festival, and rejecting the rest. Separate from the selection committee is the "jury" usually made up of five to eight people working in television and/or movies. The jury watches only the movies that have been officially selected to be in the festival and from those they nominate five or so in a variety of categories. That same jury will then award a winner in each category to be announced at the close of the festival.
Not all festivals have a nomination process or give a variety of awards. When I played the Cannabis Film Festival in Humboldt there was only a jury prize for best picture and an audience choice award (which went to a movie that stuffed the ballot box). When I played the Lyons Film Festival in Colorado there wasn't even a jury, just the audience choice award, which we won.
And those nominations are nothing minor; the judges/committee must have been impressed to have chosen them.
I'm still excited about the festival, it's gonna be a lot of fun.
What is your next step, trying to get it on Amazon, Netflix, Hulu or streamed some other method?