Sweet news from the
FanTasia Festival about NAFFA, the North American Fantastic
Festival Alliance! (I too was wishing it was for the National
Association For Fantastic Asses, but I assure you that this news is just as
cool!)
The alliance will consist of several
of the best movie festivals that North America has to offer. Joining this
kick-ass movie guild is Montreal’s FanTasia (where our very own Arrow is at
showing off his sweet-ass shoot em’ up
DEADEN as well as the sci-fi flick RECON
2022), the Alamo Drafthouse’s Fantastic Fest in Austin and rounding out the
triad is Dead Channels: the San Francisco Festival of Fantastic Film.
The alliance will help budding film
makers navigate the submissions of different festivals as well as promoting the
discovery of of challenging and independent work. The
alliance will provide professional presentations of short and feature-length
35mm and 16mm films, provide excellent venues for video projection, provide
potential for coverage by national and international media, and may provide
limited festival and marketing consultation for NAFFA programmed films (on
request).
I personally think that this
organization is long overdue and a great idea. Coming from someone who hangs
with a lot of amateur film makers, I know it’s often tough trying to get things
recognized by festivals, as well as finding people who are in this business for
the art and not just the money.
So if your new to the filmmaking
game, or are like me and just really love movies, check out the site for
NAFFA,
as well as the official sites below that form the triforce of festival powers
that make up NAFFA.
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