Week 4

After a snowy vacation, it is great to be back on track with everything. I have done a lot more research for awards- reading again what the manual said so that I do not get off track. I've realized that it will be most important, when reaching out to donors of last year, that I thank them for what they gave the year before. I am in the process of getting the contact for the Awards Coordinator from last year so that I can go ahead and reach out to the these donors. They are most important, since they have already given to the festival in past years. Our meeting this week was very helpful in getting everyone back on track. We all discussed what we have done and what our plans will be for this week. The Film Kid Mixer is coming up this friday so I'm very excited for this event. We are spreading the word on facebook and already there seems to be a good turn out. We also have the bake sale coming up next week as well as the BYOFF party on Thursday Feb. 13th. On top of it deciding films will be a struggle! I realized, with this most recent film submission, there are not really any films i'm on the fence about. I either find that I love the films or I know that they are not good for the festival. We have not yet discussed films in class so I am interested to hear everyones thoughts. With Abstracts, I feel like theres lots of debate since not all of us are as well versed with film papers. With Films, I feel like we will be able to have a lot better and concrete discussions so we shall see!

Watching films: 3 hours 

Meeting time with whole department: 1 hour and 30 minutes

Emails & Doc updates: 2 hours