[IMC-Boston-Editorial] film fest eval and $$ made

[Sam Wheeler]

I thought it went well, from what I saw on Sunday, but I agree that it was
too much work and just too long for what we made off it.  I think we could
at least keep it under 6 hours/day next time and start a little later.  A
more organized food thing might be good, too, and could have gotten us more
$$, perhaps (how about a $10 dinner, GOP style?).  The donations definitely
seemed directly proportional to our pitches between shows, too, so we should
make more of an effort on that next time, too, as annoying as it is to beg
(all PBS like...).
 
Overall, we seemed to get good response from the films we chose, although we
definitely bummed some people out by having Angry Wimmin first on Sunday,
and cutting We short to make up for our late start (which was pretty much my
fault, sorry).  In terms of publicity, though, I was impressed at how many
people showed up throughout the day, and the positive response that most of
them had to the whole thing.  I think that is where we will get the biggest
reward, long term.  Thanks to everyone for helping out.  I had a good time
and I hope you all did, too.
 
Thanks!
 
-sam

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From: boston-editorial-bounces at lists.indymedia.org
[mailto:boston-editorial-bounces at lists.indymedia.org] On Behalf Of Sofia
JarrinT
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 4:19 PM
To: BIM Editorial
Subject: [IMC-Boston-Editorial] film fest eval and $$ made


hi chiquitos/as,

I was thinking we could meet to evaluate how the weekend film fest went, but
I'm quite exhausted and I'm sure most of you are as well. Instead, could we
share our thoughts via this list to evaluate how the weekend went?

Total raised: $199 minus $24 for copies made, $10 for sodas = $165 and
(we're supposed to pay $60.oo to the Democracy Center for the projector, but
I'm going to see if we can get a discount on that... I'm not sure if it's
$30.oo each day or for the entire weekend)

We can decide as a group how to spend the $$, but my personal vote is to
invest most cash on those who want to go the Media Reform Conference. I
think both Jonathan and Sam are applying for scholarships. We have an
additional $500.oo on a different account for bills; I have yet to contact
Rob for that.

Here's my evaluation:
The festival was too long and too much work for the amount of $$ made. If we
ran it again, I'd make it shorter (3 films instead of 6 per day or so). Not
sure this is the best kind of fundraiser we could have...  Also, I felt that
because we had to cover both the WTO and Oaxaca events, we weren't able to
coordinate last details together as a collective. I meant to ask people to
check/approve the last films selected (as time/space permitted) and didn't.
My apologies for that.  We also didn't have enough people to sell popcorn
and sodas...  And, spending a whole weekend in the dark like that was
tough... Specially with a beautiful sunny weekend like we had.  

On the Good side of things, it was awesome to work together with everyone,
specially on Sunday. The people who *did* attend the festival, seemed to get
a lot out of it. Many people signed up to the list. There were at least 2
people who are interested in coming to meetings. I also made connections
w/the people from The Underground newspaper, and one of our attendees was so
moved by the Atenco and Oaxaca movies that said he's going there soon to
help.

peace,
sofia



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