Micro Film

Micro Film - Ep. 8 - The Fourth Everest

Hi Everyone,

Apologies. It’s taken a long time for me to get around to the show notes on this episode (and Episode 9). A number of factors - 1) I got REALLY sick. I could hardly sit at the computer for more than twenty minutes at a time twice a day or so - and I had to prioritize that time severely. 2) I DID to the show notes on this episode, but the damned interface timed out, I forgot that that was a problem, and it’s a LONG episode (The longest yet.) with a fair number of notes. It was the one window I had to get the notes done in. (This time I’m prepping the notes in notepad first.) 3) I hit a window of extreme busy-ness. I knew that the busy period was coming and that was in part why I posted two episodes so close together… but I hadn’t accounted for getting sick, which really only compounded the issue.

Anyhow - hopefully I’ll get through all the notes for both these episodes today in this window of opportunity.

Additionally - I will try to post episode ten this weekend, but the ‘busy-ness’ has not ended yet and won’t for a while… as a result it’s going to look a LOT like I’m pod-fading. I assure you I am not actually pod-fading. It’s pretty likely I’ll slow to once a month for as much as the next three months - but as the end of the summer rolls around I should pick it up again.

And now on to the notes… they are a bit cursory.

This episode is comprised almost entirely of a conversation I had with Tracy D. Smith, director of Taming Tammy.

The majority of the discussion surrounds the subject of what to do after you’ve made your film - festivals and distribution. I call this the fourth Everest. The first being development and pre-production, the second is filming, and the third is post-production.

Her first two short films.

Some of Tracy’s Sponsors on Taming Tammy:

Paladin Show Services. (It genuinely appears as though Paladin doesn’t have a website! Which seems strange ’cause Ed Brnado has totally made himself a star of the local Vancouver industry. In any case this link does have the Paladin contact info.)

Taming Tammy premiered at the Vancouver Film Festival.

And as she tells us in the interview, she didn’t get into the Whistler Festival.

But it DID get into the Beloit Film Festival.

And the Women in Film Film Festival.

Here is the the Film Festival Survival Guide by Chris Gore, which Tracy recommends.

The NSI Film Exchange.

Don McKellar’s “Phone Call From an Imaginary Girlfriend: Istanbul” and “Phone Call From an Imaginary Girlfriend: Anakara”

A link that keeps coming up… Telefilm. I’m going to have to make it a permanent link!

The Crazy 8s Festival/Contest.

We speak briefly about Cabin Movie.

Here is Tracy’s current project - Living Vancouver.

And for the record… here’s Eduardo Sanchez’s credits. Shane Carruth of course has nine of credits… all for the same film.