Quick Start Grants
ACHF Arts Access
To attend the Portland Film Festival to help me develop in my career as a filmmaker. I have been invited to take part in a Q and A immediately after each of my film screenings and in the festival’s Coffee Chat during the morning of my first screening. These opportunities will help me build an audience for my film at the Portland Film Festival (which is a measurable outcome). While in attendance, I will also meet other like-minded filmmakers and film festival programmers, take part in workshops and see other independent films like mine that are currently screening on the film festival circuit. These activities will help me gauge where I’m at in my development as a filmmaker and should generate invitations to other film festivals in the future. In my final report to Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, I will provide audience attendance figures for my film screenings and the Coffee Chat. I will also provide details on who I met at the film festival and how I hope they might help my filmmaking career, as well as details on the workshops and film screenings I attend.
1) Networking with filmmakers: I was able to meet with 4 other filmmakers from Minnesota who also had films at the Portland Film Festival. We have since been in contact and I've made plans to work with all of them on future projects or grants. And, of course, I met many other filmmakers from across the country. 2) Securing festival invitations: Immediately after my Portland screening, I received invitations to the New Hampshire Film Festival and the Tri-Cities International Film Festival. I now have 9 festivals scheduled for this fall. 3) Growing my audience: I took part in a filmmaker's panel and encouraged more people to attend my film. On that same panel, I was able to talk about all the grant opportunities available in Minnesota, including the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council grant that allowed me to attend! CONCLUSION: In attending this festival, I was able to meet my artistic goals with measurable incomes that support my growth as a filmmaker.
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