FROM HERE TO AWESOME

Screenings

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.

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.

Festival Update

So we’ve been working overtime to pull together a number of exciting things around FHTA.

JUNE 6th
Festival films will have until June 6th to build audiences around their work. So if you’re a festival filmmaker the clock is ticking. Checkout what your fellow FHTA filmmakers doing to promote their work. The more you spread the work the more it is likely that people will find it. Consider possible groups, sites, bloggers or other filmmakers who could help you reach a wider audience. One of the driving goals of the festival is discovery, so we encourage you to think creatively about how you can use the web to build your audience.

DIY DAYS
We’ve teamed with Current TV to produce two live events around FHTA. DIY DAYS will be held in LA on July 26th and in SF on August 2nd. The events will consist of screenings, panel discussions, case studies, and workshops. For those not in LA and SF fear not we will be documenting the whole affair so that it can easily be embed and spread.

Distribution outlets - this is what everyone wants to know - where will the showcased films be shown?

Theatrical - special screenings in LA, SF, London, Melbourne, Montreal, and Paris to name a few. We’re also working on 25 other screening locations.

Living room - VUDU, Amazon Unbox via TiVO, other outlets include AT&T, TVN, and NetFlix.

Online - FHTA miro player, Amazon Unbox, Myspace, YouTube, IndieFlix, BlipTV, OurStage, Joost, and Hulu

Mobile - we’re working on a couple deals here that would have films playing on mobile devices in the US and Europe

For certain films there could be additional retail and online outlet possibilities.

*Outlets subject to change and some outlets require that films can meet clearance and have E&O.

ON THE WEB
Independent Films Direct an excellent new filmmaking resource and news site has decided to feature a number of FHTA films weekly for the next six months! So if you’re a festival filmmaker make sure to spruce up your film page and include those links to myspace, youTube, myspace, OurStage, twitter and delicious.

Spout.com is one of our festival partners and they’ve established a new section to their site just for FHTA. On the section their featuring projects that they feel that they’re community will find interesting. If you’re not a member of spout make sure to join. Drop by the discussion to introduce yourself . It is a place to discuss filmmaking, the festival and films. Special thanks to spout for setting up the dedicated space. Festival filmmakers make sure to drive your audiences there. Not only is it a great way to promote your work it is also a way to introduce your projects to Spout’s community of film lovers. To visit the special FHTA spout group click here.