Film Festivals and (Obnoxious Parentheses)

So in a few weeks I believe, there's this film festival going on. “What festival?” you may be asking yourself. Oh, nothing much. Only the freakin' Olympia Film Festival, hosted by the Olympia Film Society!! (Yes, those bold italics are necessary. They are just that awesome.) 

These guys are pretty cool, if I do say so myself. I [sorta] got to work with [a few of] them for the most of every Tuesday afternoon from June-September for planning out the What You Got? Festival (although I like to spell it out WatUGot Fest.) 

The What You Got? Fest was pretty amazing, it's basically a mini-film festival with bands and workshops for kids 21 and under. They even let me show one of my skits, Chupa, (I think that's like, the 4th link I've put to that thing up on this now. And now I just realized that I should have totally written about what it was like to have my short-film up on the bigscreen on this blog. Oh well, just know that it feels like you're the center of attention – even though everybody's actually looking at the screen... all 15 of them (two of them being my parents. Gaaah I'm pathetic!))

I even got written about in a little-known online newspaper I never had heard of before then. Look! My name is featured in the third little tiny paragraph! I'm practically famous now!

But anyway, enough about the WatUGot Fest, I'm here to talk about the Olympia Film Festival, WatUGot's bigger and buffer cousin. I'm not gonna lie, I've never actually been to it. I've lived here all my life and just about two years ago I actually began to go out and experience Olympia for what it is (my first Procession of the Species was freshman year.) So I'm determined to soon check off the little box next to Olympia Film Festival on my “List of Things to See in Olympia.”

 With the awesome success of WatUGot (like I mentioned before. 15 whole people saw my film, at once! Woooaaah!) I was actually going to try my luck at submitting something else to the OlyFilmFest (look! I've already come up with a snappy abbreviation for this one too!) but I missed the deadline. Oh well, maybe next year. I wonder if my films are even good enough to show at the OlyFilmFest... 

Maybe if I got myself a new camera (did I mention my camcorder died on me last week? Damn thing. I'll have to take it in again.)


They're also having this fantastic giveaway for free tickets. Here are the rules! 

If you wanna know any more about the OlyFilmFest check out these awesome links:

http://www.olympiafilmsociety.org/
http://www.facebook.com/OlympiaFilmFestival
http://www.facebook.com/olympiafilmsociety
http://twitter.com/olyfilmsociety

Oh! And here's some snazzy contact info if you're interested:

206 Fifth Ave. SE
Olympia, WA 98501
Tel: 360-754-6670

Well, I'm rather excited!