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ASTRONUTS Debuts at Yellow Springs Short Film Festival - Feb 5 & 6

FalTorPan

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I realize that most of you don't live anywhere near Dayton, Cincinnati or Columbus, Ohio, but my ASTRONUTS movie is about to make its big-screen debut at an area film festival, and I wanted to share the news.

ASTRONUTS has been accepted to the 2nd Annual Yellow Springs Short Film Festival!

The festival will take place on Saturday, February 5, at 1:00 PM, at the Little Art Theatre. The festival will last about two hours, including a short intermission. After the festival there will be a reception at the nearby Emporium Wines and Underdog Cafe. Audience choice awards will be presented at the reception.

Watch ASTRONUTS on a big screen, and please show your support by attending the festival and reception on Saturday! (As an aside, a super-cool way to support ASTRONUTS would be to show up wearing super-cool ASTRONUTS clothing, which you can find at the Shoestringscifi CafePress store!)

An encore presentation of the festival will take place on Sunday, February 6, at 1:00 PM. Watch ASTRONUTS on a big screen again. You know you want to!

Location: Little Art Theatre – 247 Xenia Avenue, Yellow Springs, OH, 45387​

Note: Some films presented at the festival will contain material that is not appropriate for children.

Links:

ASTRONUTS is a shoestringscifi.com Production.
 
Captain Randy Hall said:
Is this the same Astronuts film that was released sometime last year, or is it a new production?
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I don't know of any recently completed ASTRONUTS film than this one, so I assume it's the same one. I finished this movie in December. To this point I've not shown it to anyone oustide my family.
 
Thanks. I plan to upload the completed movie to YouTube sometime later this year. The first two of the three parts are already on YouTube, but in a rough edit that has a somewhat lethargic pace. The real deal has much better flow.
 
Potemkin_Prod said:
And hey, 3rd out of 15 entries is pretty darn good!!!
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Thanks. I overheard one of the festival runners mention that they'd received over thirty entries. They accepted about about half of them for the festival.

ASTRONUTS doesn't hold up in a lot of ways against many of the excellent Trek fan films and non-Trek films that have been mentioned in this forum, but for the time in which it was made, and with the materials, know-how and very limited money that we had to work with, I'm proud of what we accomplished in just making the movie, and it was such a treat yesterday, to see and hear people whom I'd never met laughing in many of the "right" places. Being recognized on top of that was an amazing experience.

An encore presentation of the festival program is happening today. It will be fun to see and hear a new group of people whom I've never met watching the movie. That's the most satisfying and gratifying experience that a moviemaker can have.
 
Thanks!

The turnout for today's encore screening was slightly lower than yesterday's, but the number of attendees was still impressive. I was able to hear people's reactions more clearly this time, and it seems that a lot more of today's attendees laughed in the "right" places than the people who came yesterday. Today's crowd seemed to cheer more loudly for Astronuts than for any other movie except yesterday's first-place winner, Paranormal Demon Killers. It was awesome.

The Yellow Springs Short Film Festival was a lot of fun. Fellow moviemakers, I strongly encourage you to submit your material to film festivals -- especially local ones. It's wonderful to have a movie downloaded or streamed online. It's also wonderful to physically observe an audience watching and enjoying the fruits of your labor.
 
FalTorPan said:
Fellow moviemakers, I strongly encourage you to submit your material to film festivals -- especially local ones. It's wonderful to have a movie downloaded or streamed online. It's also wonderful to physically observe an audience watching and enjoying the fruits of your labor.
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Oh, I agree. It's instructive. It can be great ego boo or ego bruise, so you have to be ready for either. One of my short films ("Stagecoach in the Sky") didn't get the reaction I wanted at its first screening because there was a problem with the theater's sound system. The level was too low on my film and it was crackly at the beginning. By the time they got that fixed it was several minutes into the film and the audience wasn't with it the way they were at a later screening. You could tell the audience appreciated the quality of the filmmaking (we won two awards in that contest and tied for runner-up for best film), but at that one screening they missed too much of the setup and the opening gags. Alas!
 
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