{"id":381,"date":"2010-07-01T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2011-10-23T05:03:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T05:03:45","slug":"julyaugust-festival-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/julyaugust-festival-update\/","title":{"rendered":"July\/August festival update"},"content":{"rendered":"

We received our first official film festival rejection letter this morning via email. It was kind and gracious and encouraging, and beautifully written. I was so touched by the letter, in fact, that I wrote back with a quick note thanking them for the courtesy of letting us know.* I wasn\u2019t expecting a response, it just felt like the right thing to do. Minutes later, I got an answer back from the festival director. They had sent me the wrong letter by mistake. Our film was accepted after all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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That festival was the Nevada City Film Festival<\/a>, where How to Make a Baby<\/a> will play in late August. Over the next two months it\u2019ll also screen in Rio de Janeiro, S\u00e3o Paulo<\/a>, and New York City<\/a>. It looks like the festival organizers have put together some amazing programs, so if you live near any of those cities, I highly recommend checking them out in person. You can click the images above for the dates and details, and as always, see our festivals page<\/a> for the whole list of events.<\/p>\n

*Many festivals don\u2019t bother to inform filmmakers that their films have been rejected: you have to wait \u2019til they release the list of accepted films, and then search for your film in the list, a rather heartbreaking process if you were hoping to get in and didn\u2019t!<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We received our first official film festival rejection letter this morning via email. It was kind and gracious and encouraging, and beautifully written. I was so touched by the letter, in fact, that I wrote back with a quick note thanking them for the courtesy of letting us know.* I wasn\u2019t expecting a response, it … Continue reading July\/August festival update<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,22],"tags":[36,43],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-events","category-self-reference","tag-festivals","tag-how-to-make-a-baby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}