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| - I had a film in this festival, as well as others, and I'm telling you... this festival is BY FAR more organized and better than so many others. This is a 'young' festival, only five years now but you wouldn't know it, feels like a 15 year festival. Other five year festival struggle with finding good venues and sponsors... this one has EASILY the best theater around, the amazing 1,700 person LVH Theatre with a huge screen, great sound, and great seating. Honestly, as a filmmaker, you work your whole life to see your film on a screen like that.
On top of that, they really take care of the filmmakers and the audience. Every night, there is some kind of event for people to attend, and it's not some douchey "networking" vibe to it... it's a party to celebrate great films and good people making them. I've met some great friends because of this.
They have panels for the audience to attend, which is a great tool that I wish I had when I was an up and coming filmmaker. I wanted to 'give back' in whatever way I could so I was on all three panels and I made sure to stay around until every single person in line got talk with me as long as they wanted to, an hour on average... I'm just honored people thought I had something to decent to say!
I'm not just flattered that my film won, but I'm telling you, I could have gotten zip and still would have had glowing reviews about this festival. It was way beyond expectations. Keep it up!!!
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