#Tropfest


So last night was Tropfest 2013 and Mike and I caught up to watch it with a mate and live tweet our reactions to all of the shorts as we watched them. I will embed our tweets below for all to see. Amazingly one of them even made it onto the TV and we both chuckled that it was like in Speed: "Interactive TV, Jack. Wave of the future!" Love Dennis Hopper.

Our thoughts for the festival as a whole are that this was a particularly great year. The entries were varied in genre, scope, budget and style and that is exactly what we want from such a festival. We took a fairly hard stance on our scores for the films as we needed to differentiate them from one another, so we were not all that lenient in that if there was an issue or two, it lowered the score significantly. We ended up with all but two of the sixteen films getting a 5/10 or better and three of them scoring a 7 and another three an 8. Hopefully we get one of our films up there one day and some of you can score us and give us feedback too!

Refreshingly the film we thought was best was the one that actually won and also snagged the best actor award, so our thoughts around what type of short films to make and how to work them seem to be in line with this particular festival.

The two negatives from the festival as a whole are that there is nowhere to watch it live in Adelaide, on a big screen in amongst an audience which we feel is a tad unfair. And the second is almost all of the finalists came from NSW. We don’t quite know why. Is it just more entries from there, more people or what? But it would be nice to see other states show up.

Our thanks to the team who put on the festival for making it so polished and professional and our congratulations to all of the finalists! Mike and I are incredibly envious and even though we are putting a rating on your work we know how hard it is to even get a finished product, let along become a finalist in a festival. Well done, we cannot wait to see what each of you accomplishes next. We also cannot wait to see what the other 600 plus entrants come up with next year.

Finally, thanks to SBS 2 for at least giving us Adelaidians a way to see it. Maybe if the broadcast could be live next year instead of half an hour behind, or even better, if there was a live outdoor location to go to that would be brilliant!
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