Organizing and developing a film festival takes work. Hard work. It involves hundreds of hours building the infrastructure, creating a desirable atmosphere for filmmakers, developing programming that benefits the community (and filmmakers), creating partnerships with community leaders and businesses, getting the word out, pouring over hundreds of movies which requires scores of volunteers and industry professionals, managing selected films and executing and tweaking the business plan for continued growth…..just to name a few. Very few upstart ventures like this have the benefit of a heavily funded operational budget on the get-go, which makes it’s grass roots initiative all the more organic (for lack of a better word) as well as a challenge.
So why do we do it? Why do put in the hours for no pay? Is it because we love where we live and want to see interest and growth and economic development? Yes. That’s part of it. But bottom line is that we love the art. We believe in it and it’s impact. We love visual storytelling because it’s both a deeply human impulse and the most powerful way to communicate the values of a community or your “message” to the next generation.
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