Re: The Tank (series' fees)

From: Ken Bawcom (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Aug 22 2006 - 12:10:52 PDT


Don't most festivals offer prizes? I suppose a festival that didn't pay
rental fees, or offer prizes, would probably charge entry fees, if they
had to have them to survive. I wasn't offering a hard and fast rule, by
any means, merely suggesting that different relationships produce
different expectations. When I said my explanation was inadequate, I
meant that it justified nothing, just offered an explanation of how the
different expectations may have come to be.

Ken B.

Quoting john porter <email suppressed>:

> So, festivals which don't offer prizes or rental fees
> would be expected to not charge entry fees, like
> series'?
> John.
>
> --- Ken Bawcom <email suppressed> wrote:
>
>> While I don't think the answer I offer is adequate,
>> I think it is
>> probably accurate...
>>
>> Submitting to a series is like a job interview,
>> since if their film is
>> selected, it will probably be rented for projection.
>>
>> A film festival does not pay for the films shown,
>> but is a competition,
>> and offers the chance to win awards, usually money.
>> Traditionally, we
>> pay money to enter contests.
>>
>> Ken B.
>>
>> Quoting john porter <email suppressed>:
>>
>> >> outside of festivals,
>> >> most places with screening series do
>> >> not charge filmmakers for the privilege of having
>> >> their work considered.
>> >
>> > Yes. Why is that? Why don't most SERIES charge
>> > submission fees, when most festivals do?
>> > (Sorry if SERIES were already discussed in that
>> "entry
>> > fees" thread a while back.)
>> >
>> > John Porter, Toronto, Canada
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