Devon Film FestivalRain & wind, heatwaves & cold fronts, angry sheep & overgrown hedge, all conspire against us. But the Devon Film Festival is not bound by time or place. We will persevere; we will remain. We will schedule…
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As we wrap up the 1st week of the 1st Annual Devon Film Festival I’m thankful we gave ourselves this soft launch period. There were many bugs, a few kinks, an occasional stutter and one massive epileptic fit (which luckily occurred behind the scenes) but all told we are about to close our submission window with great success!
A few of the judges were so excited with the preliminary list they started watching, “The Kingdom,” and I look forward to their scoring come Monday.
The list of submissions for judging will be complete tomorrow 25-07-2021 at 13:05 GMT. There can be no substitutions or additions after this time.
A few words on scoring:
If you have not read, Make it Personal or Make it Factual I highly suggest you do so. It is lazy to say, “I liked a film therefore it the best film.” Each numerical score will require a brief statement regarding your thoughts on the film and the festival founder reserves the right to void fraudulent scoring.
Scoring must be done through the online submission form. You will receive a link to this form once the submission window has closed.
All judges on this panel, including the luddites, know how to use the internet so there will be no exceptions to this rule.
Congratulations to our first full set of submissions.
Stray Cat has submitted an impressive line up from two decades of film. Stray Cat said, “The 90’s may well be considered the “Best Year’s of Action” but don’t discount the Noughties who launched the Bourne series and reinvigorated the genre.”
Some of the judges appear to be confused regarding Action Films or impatient for the beginning of the Drama section.
Your Benevolent Festival Founder
Come on judges get your submissions in, the sooner we have them the sooner we can start to watch and judge – even without a big summer blockbuster we can still have some action.
You can find the the submissions so far on the Film page or look through the slides below!
It occurs to me that the deadline might be a bit too far away. Why did this occur to me?
Well, the 1st Annual Devon Film Festival is in beta for one. Two, the judges that have been selected have busy day jobs and are by nature, procrastinators. A notable exception being No Moon Shits in Tub who does not have a job, yet has managed to submit at least one film.
In other festival news, one of our international judges has forgotten that our first category is Action, and has nominated Hachi, A Dogs Tale which is firmly in the Drama category. No worries though, we’ll save this for later.
Our judges continue to be excited as they carefully consider their submissions. A rumour is circulating that the Festival Prize for Best Action film might include something for the judge who nominated it.
A bit of confusion today as some of our judges didn’t read the instructions whilst others got their hair did – Curly got a full chop and lost a foot and a half of her lovely locks.
Stray Cat thought the instructions were confusing and one of our international judges asked if the theatres were open. All in all not quite as bad as the Fyre Festival and the good news is we’ve updated our Rules and Instructions page .
Surly Bear narrowed the list of possible submissions down to 40.
No Moon Shits in Tub is the only judge so far with a submission but Coleslaw Slim has won the festival Spirit Award for her kind message to the organiser.
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