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Proud to say I know a movie director! lol!

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Proud to say I know a movie director! lol!

That's an award-winning movie director!

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Stop it!  You guys are making me blush!
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Stop it!  You guys are making me blush!

There's an emoticon for that...  ^-^

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Thanks, guys!  I appreciate the support!  I don't know how easy or difficult it will be for me to get my movie shown at another festival.  As I've said before, competition is fierce in this business.  We'll see what happens if anything.
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I am happy to announce that my short documentary "Dogs to the Rescue" will be shown at the 2018 Berlin (Germany) Short Film Festival. The festival will take place June 28-July 1, 2018. The movie will be shown at The Babylon, a movie theater in the Mitte section of Berlin. I'm going to look into what I'll be responsible for if I am to make a trip to Berlin. In the meantime, I'll have a good copy of my film sent out to them. I'll also notify my crew about it as well.

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Someone told me the famed Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival) is held annually at The Babylon as well.

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I am happy to announce that my short documentary "Dogs to the Rescue" will be shown at the 2018 Berlin (Germany) Short Film Festival. The festival will take place June 28-July 1, 2018. The movie will be shown at The Babylon, a movie theater in the Mitte section of Berlin. I'm going to look into what I'll be responsible for if I am to make a trip to Berlin. In the meantime, I'll have a good copy of my film sent out to them. I'll also notify my crew about it as well.

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How cool is that!  When can the rest of us see it?

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I am happy to announce that my short documentary "Dogs to the Rescue" will be shown at the 2018 Berlin (Germany) Short Film Festival. The festival will take place June 28-July 1, 2018. The movie will be shown at The Babylon, a movie theater in the Mitte section of Berlin. I'm going to look into what I'll be responsible for if I am to make a trip to Berlin. In the meantime, I'll have a good copy of my film sent out to them. I'll also notify my crew about it as well.

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Congratulations, [member=460]Andrew Costa Mesa[/member]!  That's really awesome.  I hope you can make it to Berlin so you can see it premiered at the festival!  ^__^/
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How cool is that!  When can the rest of us see it?

I don't know if anybody is up for this.  If any of us are staying in hotel rooms that has a Blu-ray DVD player, maybe some of us can gather to watch the film there.  It's only 19 minutes long.  I know some hotel rooms in the past had DVD players, but I haven't stayed in a hotel in ages as they are too expensive for me and when I last checked, hotel rooms usually had some sort of closed-circuit cable system where people can order movies (and porn as well).

I also submitted my film to some SoCal-based film festivals, but getting a specific festival to play my movie is a challenge as film festivals are very competitive.  Typically a film festival will have 20 available slots and they usually receive over 200 submissions.  One festival in Big Bear Lake played my film last September.  A couple of weeks ago, I had a private showing of it with friends in Los Angeles.
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I don't know if anybody is up for this.  If any of us are staying in hotel rooms that has a Blu-ray DVD player, maybe some of us can gather to watch the film there.  It's only 19 minutes long.  I know some hotel rooms in the past had DVD players, but I haven't stayed in a hotel in ages as they are too expensive for me and when I last checked, hotel rooms usually had some sort of closed-circuit cable system where people can order movies (and porn as well).

I also submitted my film to some SoCal-based film festivals, but getting a specific festival to play my movie is a challenge as film festivals are very competitive.  Typically a film festival will have 20 available slots and they usually receive over 200 submissions.  One festival in Big Bear Lake played my film last September.  A couple of weeks ago, I had a private showing of it with friends in Los Angeles.

Is the film being sold or streamed from somewhere?

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Is the film being sold or streamed from somewhere?

Not really.  I have a copy of it in a password-protected account in Vimeo, but I only give that out to festivals that I submit to and only to a few people in my family and people I know.  Are you going to be at Comic-Con?  If so, I can try to make a Blu-ray copy of it, although it suddenly stopped working when I last tried to use it.  I can try to see if it works again.

Here's a link to a two-minute trailer on YouTube:
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Congratulations, Andrew! I hope that you are able to make it to Berlin and enjoy the experience firsthand.

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Andrew this is awesome!  So happy for you! 

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Last February of this year, I began principal photography of my short documentary on training dogs to be therapy pets and since late May (Memorial Day weekend to be exact), I had been editing it and it was finally completed as of July 9.  I called the movie "Dogs to the Rescue" and it is a 19-minute film about a clinic that trains dogs to be therapy pets and they are shown how they bring unconditional love and happiness to residents of an assisted living facility in Southern California.

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Finally, I also edited a two-minute trailer for the film. 

I submitted the film to seven film festivals (3 in Southern California, 1 in Michigan, 1 in Missouri, 1 in England and 1 in Australia).  Ten years ago, I submitted two student live-action shorts to several film festivals, but not a single one accepted either one. I am aware that competition is fierce, just like last year when I ran to be a delegate at one of the two political major party conventions. I can't predict that things will be different this time, except that unlike ten years ago, I now have a presence on IMDb.com (in fact, my film is already listed on that site) and it is I think more professionally made than my two student live-action shorts from ten years ago. I'm still debating if I should make a press kit.

EDIT 7/31/17, 2:47pm PDT:  OK, I did my best to fix the audio issues in the trailer, hope it sounds a little better.

This is awesome! I'm really late on this thread but I'm curious which festival in Missouri you submitted if you don't mind me asking. I attend Arts and Crafts at Screenland Armour in Kansas City every year and this sounds like something that might be a good fit, plus they are dog people!

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This is awesome! I'm really late on this thread but I'm curious which festival in Missouri you submitted if you don't mind me asking. I attend Arts and Crafts at Screenland Armour in Kansas City every year and this sounds like something that might be a good fit, plus they are dog people!

I submitted it to the festival in St. Louis.  Alas, it wasn't accepted.   :-X
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