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Screenings

September 4th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in audience, buzz, community, diy days, screening

The screenings in SF were fun. The movies that the audience selected were TO THE HILLS2, MEDITATE AND DESTROY, and IN SEARCH OF. Special thanks to CineGoGo for helping to support the screenings in Mint Plaza.

mint plaza

In the spirit of DIY, FHTA filmmakers are setting up their own screenings with other films from the festival. Here is a video from RING OF BLOOD filmmaker Javier Prato. He’s traveling the country and staging screenings of FHTA short films.



If you’re interested in providing a venue for FHTA films or would like to tell us about a venue that you think would be a good fit, we’d love to hear from you. info [at] fromheretoawesome dot com

IN OTHER NEWS

FHTA films will be hitting Joost and Amazon in the next week or so.

We’re working on setting up a special screening in Boston that will kick off the DIY DAYS event in October.

Finally, we are close to announcing which FHTA films will be headed to London all expenses paid.

YouTube features FHTA

February 23rd, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in buzz, fest

This weekend youTube is featuring the first in a series of FHTA videos. Here’s what they posted about the fest on the youTube blog.

There’s no question that technology has democratized film production and distribution. But it’s time to turn a handful of success stories (Four Eyed Monsters, M dot Strange, Lance Weiler and Robert Greenwald are a few examples) into hundreds, thousands, and eventually, millions of examples of filmmakers using technology to reach new audiences.

The From Here to Awesome Film Festival, brought to you by some of the talent mentioned above, is here to start getting the job done. The festival’s premise? Rather than spend money submitting your short or feature film to festivals that are often overrun with distributors looking for marketable content, why not submit your film to “From Here to Awesome” for free, watch it get blasted to audiences around the world through theaters, living rooms, online and mobile phones, and receive revenue directly from these distribution outlets? If that sounds intriguing, watch on…

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