Proud to have written and directed this piece and to have worked with such talented peers! "Little Disappointment" will be screened at the Yonkers Film Fest in early November.
First of all, entering festivals is so much more paperwork than I ever expected.
Second, getting in has made made me feel like a tortoise.
Let me explain...
A wise friend of mine once compared me to a tortoise. Like so:
"They grow, you know," she said.
"Doesn't everything?"
"No, I mean, they grow to FIT their environment. If you leave a tortoise in a little tank, it will stay little forever. But if you give it a large room to live in..."
You get the point.
We grow to fit the opportunities open to us. Or, at least, we can.
I am pleased to announce that a short film I created with a few good friends in practically my back yard "for practice" has been picked up by the YoFi Festival in Yonkers. I am pleased that it has added a certain amount of "legitimacy" to all of my work. I am thrilled that this means I get to keep creating things I love. But it also has forced me to face a realization: I am now a very, very tiny fish in a very, very big pond. I am quite akin to a domesticated goldfish suddenly dunked into the ocean.
So this whole, very modest, entry into the world of festivals has been very humbling, to say the least. It'd be easy to say: "oh, but I'll never sell it, oh, but it's not Sundance, oh, but you only entered one..."
But there's nothing wrong with realizing how small you are, I suppose, if it just makes you that much more determined TO GROW.