http://www.grfilmfestival.com/blog/2009/05/hello-world/ Grand Rapids' 1st Annual Film Festival Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:07:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.grfilmfestival.com/blog/2009/05/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Tracy Groot, from Hudsonville, MI Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:14:09 +0000 http://www.grfilmfestival.com/blog/?p=1#comment-47 Post Festival--Loved it! Watched films I never would have. Paid money to see a documentary...loved it. (American Sailors.) With a few bugs to work out (gnashed teeth over missing "The Reckoning" at a last-minute switcharoo of time slots, but ended up loving "Saving Face") for future festivals, I think you guys did a dynamite job. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Oh, and I attended the panel, "In the Movies: A panel of experience filmmakers share their uccesses and challenges"...for heaven's sake, PLEASE repeat this marvelous panel for next year! One young filmmaker asked the veterans a question about distrubtion, with an added comment: "Everyone knows film festivals are rigged, so I didn't enter my film." Not sure if she got the towering irony of asking advice of guys who had their films in a festival. Not sure if she got it that the average Joe Film Lover like myself is exposed to stuff they've never heard of, and watch movies and films and documentaries they never would have but for festivals like this. Asking about ways to get your film noticed from guys who are hitting the sidewalks, paying the price, doing due diligence...in the very film festival she's attending...Well, anyway...Great job, GRFF people, keep it up, loved the venue, thanks for free falling. Post Festival–Loved it! Watched films I never would have. Paid money to see a documentary…loved it. (American Sailors.) With a few bugs to work out (gnashed teeth over missing “The Reckoning” at a last-minute switcharoo of time slots, but ended up loving “Saving Face”) for future festivals, I think you guys did a dynamite job. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Oh, and I attended the panel, “In the Movies: A panel of experience filmmakers share their uccesses and challenges”…for heaven’s sake, PLEASE repeat this marvelous panel for next year! One young filmmaker asked the veterans a question about distrubtion, with an added comment: “Everyone knows film festivals are rigged, so I didn’t enter my film.” Not sure if she got the towering irony of asking advice of guys who had their films in a festival. Not sure if she got it that the average Joe Film Lover like myself is exposed to stuff they’ve never heard of, and watch movies and films and documentaries they never would have but for festivals like this. Asking about ways to get your film noticed from guys who are hitting the sidewalks, paying the price, doing due diligence…in the very film festival she’s attending…Well, anyway…Great job, GRFF people, keep it up, loved the venue, thanks for free falling.

]]> http://www.grfilmfestival.com/blog/2009/05/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Michelle Cadarette Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:35:45 +0000 http://www.grfilmfestival.com/blog/?p=1#comment-21 Thank you for bringing a family film festival to the area. As an enthusiastic audience member of film festivals and a volunteer at the East Lansing FF and Traverse City FF, I would like to use my experience to be the first to volunteer for the Grand Rapids FF. Please contact me! Thank you for bringing a family film festival to the area. As an enthusiastic audience member of film festivals and a volunteer at the East Lansing FF and Traverse City FF, I would like to use my experience to be the first to volunteer for the Grand Rapids FF. Please contact me!

]]> http://www.grfilmfestival.com/blog/2009/05/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-5 admin Fri, 29 May 2009 13:56:39 +0000 http://www.grfilmfestival.com/blog/?p=1#comment-5 We haven't had an official announcement of the festival yet (June 1), but have already received a dozen or so submittals from different filmmakers across the country. If your daughter is involved in the creative at McDonalds and is filming on the side, encourage her to check us out. :-) We haven’t had an official announcement of the festival yet (June 1), but have already received a dozen or so submittals from different filmmakers across the country. If your daughter is involved in the creative at McDonalds and is filming on the side, encourage her to check us out.

]]> http://www.grfilmfestival.com/blog/2009/05/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-3 mariann looney Thu, 28 May 2009 00:57:07 +0000 http://www.grfilmfestival.com/blog/?p=1#comment-3 Just took a peek at this with some professional interest.....I'm passing all the sites & info on to my daughter & son-in-law. They both graduated from Columbia Film School in Chicago and are now both working in the production area at McDonald's Corporate Offices in Chicago......doing lots of side jobs involving film, etc. Both sides of their families live in Grand Rapids, Mi. Just took a peek at this with some professional interest…..I’m passing all the sites & info on to my daughter & son-in-law. They both graduated from Columbia Film School in Chicago and are now both working in the production area at McDonald’s Corporate Offices in Chicago……doing lots of side jobs involving film, etc.
Both sides of their families live in Grand Rapids, Mi.

]]> http://www.grfilmfestival.com/blog/2009/05/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Matthew Douglas Grzeszak Mon, 18 May 2009 15:10:43 +0000 http://www.grfilmfestival.com/blog/?p=1#comment-2 Let the filming begin! Let the filming begin!

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