Icarus in Fort Worth screening at #FWIFS

Our short documentary "Icarus in Fort Worth" will screen at the Fort Worth Indie Film Showcase on Sunday, July 16th at noon. (This year FWIFS is in the heart of Historic Sundance Square at the Norris Conference Centers - 304 Houston Street, Ft. Worth, Texas 76102.) More information soon.

Icarus in Fort Worth screens at Lionshead Film Festival

Our short documentary "Icarus in Fort Worth" will screen at Lionshead Film Festival on Saturday, July 8th at Spayce Studios in Dallas, TX. More information soon...

Icarus in Fort Worth at Tribute Film Festival

Our short documentary "Icarus in Fort Worth" screens Saturday at the Tribute Film Festival in Abilene, Texas. Tickets are free.

The Tribute Film Festival is a three-day, three-night film festival. Events include screenings of selected films in the Frontier Texas theater, a three-day independent filmmaking seminar, social/networking events throughout downtown Abilene, and a festival gala at the historic Paramount Theater to screen the award winning films on Saturday evening March 4th.

The film's logline is:

A Texas daredevil faces danger to become a wingwalker and stunt pilot, risking everything to expand his fame and build a Hollywood movie career. The true story of Ormer Locklear, the greatest pilot you've never heard of.

It features the voice of Joshua Sherman.

And ... the film won Best Heritage Mini-Documentary.

Tribute Film Festival Gala
Historic Paramount Theatre
352 Cypress St, Abilene, Texas 79601
Saturday, March 4th
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Free
(325) 437-2800 

The Texas Sun and the Festival Run

The Texas Sun from Ted Fisher on Vimeo.

Our short documentary "The Texas Sun" has now screened at film festivals for one year. One full year. The film went to:

17 February 2016 ... (Thin Line Film Festival)
1 April 2016 ... (Interurban Film Festival)
28 April 2016 ... (Hill Country Film Festival)
10 June 2016 ... (Friday on the Green)
25 June 2016 ... (Lionshead Film Festival)
14 July 2016 ... (Fort Worth Indie Film Showcase)
11 September 2016 ... (Artcroft Film and Video Festival)
15 October 2016 ... (West Texas Film Festival)
10 November 2016 ... (South Texas Underground Film Festival)
16 February 2017 ... (Deep in the Heart Film Festival) 

The film won:

Best Domestic Documentary - MicroShort
Fort Worth Indie Film Showcase

Best Texas Documentary Short
Lionshead Film Festival

and was also nominated for:

Best Documentary Short
Deep in the Heart Film Festival

If you enjoy the film, please give it a vote at IMDb.

 

Screening at Tribute Film Festival

Our short documentary Icarus in Fort Worth will screen at the Tribute Film Festival this Saturday, March 4 at 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM CST. The screening is FREE.

The film's logline is:

A Texas daredevil faces danger to become a wingwalker and stunt pilot, risking everything to expand his fame and build a Hollywood movie career. The true story of Ormer Locklear, the greatest pilot you've never heard of.

We won the "Best Heritage Mini-Documentary" award.

The news on KTAB has a preview of the festival:

Local Film Festival Returns for Second Year


Tribute Film Festival Gala
Historic Paramount Theatre
352 Cypress St, Abilene, Texas 79601
Saturday, March 4th
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Free
(325) 437-2800

Deep in the Heart Film Festival #dithff

Our short documentary "The Texas Sun" will be screening at the Deep in the Heart Film Festival on Saturday, February 18th, at 10 a.m. in the "Family Friendly Films" block.

The film has been nominated for "Best Documentary Short."

Texans, come and see it. 

Austin #WomensMarch

Women march along Congress Avenue during the Women's March in Austin, Texas on Saturday, January 21, 2017.

Women's March, Austin

A woman marches during the Women's March in Austin, Texas on Saturday, January 21, 2017.

South Texas Underground Film Festival #STUFF2016

Our short documentary "The Texas Sun" will screen at South Texas Underground Film Festival in Corpus Christi, Texas at 2 p.m. on Saturday, November 12th.

13 Seconds

Sometimes film festivals are great!

You might get in and screen your film. Sometimes you don't get in, but at least you get the sense that they gave your film the appropriate consideration. Not every film is really for every festival. It's supposed to be hard to get in, honestly.

Then, every once in a while, you run into a festival that maybe doesn't take their responsibility seriously. At all.

I entered a fest a while back during their "earlybird entry" period. I paid the entry fee and submitted the film, and waited. The final submission deadline went past. I waited. And waited. They changed the announcement date. Okay, that happens. They changed it again. Whatever. Then ... the third announcement date came and went. Sometimes fests postpone. It happens.

It occurred to me: had they looked at our film a few times? Were we in consideration at all? Or had they judged it out, and it was now just sitting in the "no thank you" stack? Since Vimeo lets you see viewing stats, and since I had submitted a specific version of the film to the fest, I could easily see when they had viewed it.

It turned out that for TEN MONTHS they had never looked at the film. Ten months. (Keep in mind: some fests have no submission fees. There's no reason to scold them -- they clearly are just trying to have a film fest, not to profit from filmmakers. This one, however, charged a submission fee.)

I checked again a few days later and found that the day after the currently-listed "announcement date" they did watch our film. On a phone, they viewed the first 13 seconds of the film. 13 seconds. On a phone.

Don't get me wrong: I have received plenty of "no thanks!" emails from film festivals. That's fine. You send your film, they consider it. They choose to show it, they choose not to. The odds are, usually, against you. So I'm not mad when I don't get into a fest. That's fine.

Viewing a film for 13 seconds on a phone after your planned announcement date, however, doesn't seem like a great programming strategy.

West Texas Film Festival

Our short documentary "The Texas Sun" will screen at the West Texas Film Festival in Odessa, Texas on Saturday, October 15 at 1 p.m.

You can purchase tickets here.

The festival is held over three days:

Enjoy over 40 Films from 13 Countries in 3 Days!!!
The West Texas Film Festival Invites you to Odessa for our inaugural film festival.

Thurs October 13th: Join us for a good old fashioned spaghetti dinner, a cash bar, a block of short films from the US, Italy and a classic Spaghetti Western in the lovely Rose Building of downtown Odessa!!

Friday October 14th: Join for a full day of shorts and features and the Globe Theatre on the OC campus and at the Rose Building. Filmmaker Q and A's and workshops will also be offered throughout the day.

Saturday October 15th: Another day of full programming, festival awards and a special invitation you won't want to miss out on from local film maker Billy Pon.

Details about our films and events are at : www.westtexasfilm.org

Artcroft Film and Video Festival

Our short documentary "The Texas Sun" will screen at Artcroft Film and Video Festival in Millersburg, Kentucky.

The screening, in a program called "The Nature of Art," will take place on Sunday, September 11th at 1 p.m. The description given for our film is:  

A playful, humorous documentary about artists talking about the heat and light of the sun shining over Texas, as they create work in the heat and light of the sun shining over Texas.

Dry screens at FilmFest 52

My 60-second film "Dry" screened at FilmFest52 on Wednesday, July 27, 2016.

FilmFest52 is produced by the organizers of Connecticut Film Festival (CTFF) and The Bethel Film Festival (BFF) in partnership with The Bethel Cinema.

The Texas Sun at #FWIFS

Our short documentary "The Texas Sun" screens today at noon at the Fort Worth Indie Film Showcase.

Screening in Dallas #Lionshead2016

Our short documentary "The Texas Sun" will screen at 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 25, 2016, at the Lionshead Film Festival in Dallas, Texas.

Fort Worth Indie #fwifs

Our short documentary "The Texas Sun" will screen at Fort Worth Indie Film Showcase in July. (Specifics will be posted when we have them.)

The festival has now released the list of official selections for 2016.

"Self Portrait" Screens in France

Self Portrait, Robert Moran, Downtown Los Angeles (directed by Robert Moran, produced by Anne LaBarbera and Ted Fisher) will screen on Sunday, May 15, 2016, at Festival International Entr'2 Marches in Cannes, France.

"Organized in parallel with the Cannes Festival (11 - 22 May 2016), the Festival treats and develops the theme of handicap through the production and making of short films (less than 26 minutes, subtitled in French): whether fiction, reporting, documentaries, communication films, workshop films or amateur audiovisual attempts, they are selected and then entered in the competition. All types of handicap are addressed: mental, auditory, visual, motor, psychic, autism...."

"The 7th Edition of the International Festival Entr'2 Marches, will take place from Sunday 15 to Friday 20 May 2016 in the projection room located 45 rue de Mimont, kindly loaned by the Town of Cannes and equipped with facilities which make it easily accessible to people with reduced mobility (MRP), as well as to any other public in a situation of handicap: subtitles of films in French and for most of them in English, audiodescription, magnetic loop, presentation of the sessions in French Sign Language (FSL) by the film director and President of the Association « Sourd Métrage » Olivier MARCHAL, simultaneous subtitling of the discussions.... 

"From the 250 to 400 films received each year from about fifty countries, 39 short films of 13 different nationalities make up the official selection of the International Festival Entr'2 Marches 2016."

We are very honored to be an Official Selection. The film is short (just three minutes) but carries an important message.

The Texas Sun at Hill Country Film Festival #HCFF

Come and see it.

My short documentary "The Texas Sun" will screen at the Hill Country Film Festival on Friday, April 29, 2016 at 5:15 p.m.

BLOCK 13
Documentary Short Films 
Day: Friday
Date: April 29, 2016
Time: 5:15 pm
Location: Fritztown Cinema – Theater 3
Tickets: $10 individual ticket – at-the-door, as available.

Check out the full 2016 program.

Interurban

Just got back from the Interurban Film Festival. Screened The Texas Sun on Saturday.

The Rialto Theatre is classic -- it goes back to 1920. Denison is also great, and was hosting an arts festival, so we strolled Main Street in between blocks of films.

I was interviewed about the festival and about "The Texas Sun" by the Herald Democrat:

Interurban Film Festival offers rewarding experience to viewers, filmmakers

Filmmaker Ted Fisher submitted his six-minute documentary “The Texas Sun.” Because his love for film making has taken him and his family around the country, he said the sun was noticeably different in Texas and thought it would be interesting to see what others thought about the fiery ball in the sky.

“When we came to Texas, we noticed that the sun itself was a little different than we were used to living in other states and that we had a different relationship with it. We would walk and it was more intense in some places so we started thinking of it as a person,” Fisher said. “The documentary has a lot of people talking about their relationship with the Texas sun as if it’s a friend or maybe more than a friend and their loves and hates about the sun.”

 Read the rest of the article, written by Kim Burdi, here:

http://heralddemocrat.com/news/local/interurban-film-festival-offers-rewarding-experience-viewers-filmmakers

"Dry" Screens at the Miniature Film Festival

My 60-second, 100-word film "Dry" will screen in Vancouver at the Miniature Film Festival on Wednesday, March 30, 2016.

The festival is all about 60-second films:

The Miniature Film Festival is exactly what it sounds like - a small celebration of small films. We want to acknowledge and promote filmmakers who make one-minute micro short films. We definitely aren't trying to pass ourselves off as a bigger festival because we are not big at all. We are a new start-up festival that wants to help create a community for tiny films and the ingenious filmmakers who make them - a miniature festival for miniature films!