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Submission deadline March 31st

Please finish your submission videos this weekend - the deadline is March 31st

The submission videos we’ve received from all over the world have had us completely entertained. We all crowd around and check them out every time a new one comes in.

The deadline for submission videos is March 31st so get some friends together to help you this weekend and finalize yours. Remember to talk about why you made your film and what you think makes it unique and awesome.

After your submission video is done you should then upload to YouTube, Blip, MySpace and Ourstage. Make sure to copy your direct video URL cause you’ll need them during the submission process.

When joining OurStage, do so through this link

Then you should log in http://fromheretoawesome.com/login.html and fill in all the info about your film including links to your submission video. Make sure to click the “create a submission link”

Couple quick announcements:

We are going to be launching a new site that will provide all the submissions that have completed entries a film page. Completed entries must have all the proper info filled out within their submissions. If you have questions or need assistance please send an email to info@fromheretoawesome.com with “submission help” in the subject line. Make sure to include the name of your project, your username and password.

SPECIAL THANKS:

Thanks to everyone who is helping to make this discovery and distribution experiment possible. FHTA is a volunteer based operation and attempt to create an open source type of film festival. We are working hard to create opportunities for all the films that submit.

The kids are alright

The crew is back from SXSW. Big ups to all that helped to make FHTA such a success in Austin. The roundtables and party were a blast. Special thanks to bside, indiegogo and tubemogul for lending a hand with the events.

Mike Hedge and Mike Ambs documented the whole trip - stills, motion and audio.

Team Awesome in action - photo by mike hedge

Brian, Lance and Arin do an interview about FHTA with the Viral Show - photo by Mike Hedge

In other news we are so close to finally having the film pages up and running. We’ve been working hard and thanks to some amazing volunteers (David, Shawn, and Chris) who have been coding like crazy we’re going to have an awesome foundation for not only the festival but the larger open source project that we are building. FHTA is intended to be an open discovery and distribution project that helps to provide tools and opportunities to filmmakers to reach global audiences. We’ve received over 600 filmmaker registrations and we’re hoping that translates into a nice number of submission videos. There has been a back log on the film pages and we’ll be taking them live in a matter of days. It is important to note that only completed submitted films - meaning films that have filled out all their forms etc - will receive film pages so if you have questions or need assistance with completing your submission please drop us an email.

Austin bound

The FHTA team is headed to SXSW this coming Friday. SXSW is a great collision of film, tech and music. Arin, Lance and Mike will all be speaking on panels so stop bye and say hello.

Digital Cinema for Indies
Saturday, March 8th - 11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Independent Film Distribution: It Takes an Online Community
Monday, March 10th - 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Thick as Thieves: When Your Fans Break the Law
Tuesday, March 11th, 10:00 am - 11:00 am

In addition to the SXSW action we’ll be holding a number of FHTA causal roundtables about the state of indpenedent filmmaking complete with good food, drinks and conversation.

Sat. 8th 5pm to 7:30pm

Sun. 9th 12 to 1:30pm

We’re also hosting a party with Bside, indiegogo and tubemogul on Monday night from 6:30pm to 9pm. With more good food, drinks and conversation.

If you’re going to be in Austin and are interested in joining the discussion drop us an email info [@] fromheretoawesome dot com

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FHTA co-founder m dot strange recently presented a case study around the making of We Are the Strange at the Talent Campus in Berlin. He details how he turned down studio offers, self distributed and built an audience for WATS.

M dot Strange: Berlin Talent Campus 08 from M dot Strange on Vimeo.