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THE TOUCH
Jane Clark
2007
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SHORTS
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Run time:
7 min.
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USA
Winner of Best Dramatic Short at the Ft. Worth Int'l Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, "The Touch" is the story of Renee Viven, a celebrated poet, born in England, who lived and wrote most of her life in Paris. She had an intensely passionate correspondence with the married Muslim woman, Kerime Turkhan Pasha. Taking place on the day she receives the last love letter Kerime writes, Renee realizes she must let go of the woman she loves.
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From the blog
Cannes and The Touch
I just got back from 12 days at the Cannes Film Festival and Market. It's my third year, though the first two don't count so much because there is a learning curve. A really really steep one. The Cannes experience is always an amazing time - stressful, cool, exciting, stimulating, frustrating, expensive - these days even more so - and this year, rainy.
This was the first year I put a short film at the Short Film Corner. For those of you that don't know the Corner, it's like a mini market for short films. It costs about $100 US dollars and they put the film in a database on a bunch of terminals in a designated short film area. Buyers, theoretically are supposed to come in and view films to buy, though truthfully, it seemed to me that there were more hits from other short makers than anything else. I was actually pretty disappointed not to have had more buyers and distributors see it and I would hold off recommending using the short market to anyone unless they just want to have the Cannes experience. I know other friends who did it in the past and their films didn't get seen or bought. I thought it might be different for me because I was there working it, sending emails out, letting people know it was available. Still, I think only about 6 buyers actually went to see it. Others though have asked for a screener, so the way I look at it is, it motivated me to be proactive with the film so maybe that's enough.
While I was there, they were running a short film making contest. They picked 250 premises for a 3 minute film and gave Flip Cameras to those they chose and luckily I was one of them. It's a tiny little camera, with a limited zoom. Basically a point and shoot. But it takes fairly good images - better if you don't move too much, cause it does get some graininess in the blacks with movement. But regardless. I got a camera so I figured what the heck. I threw together a little script, found a few actors and a camera guy who was amazingly steady considering the entire thing was steadicam style movement. My husband and I "location" scouted for the best night locations with the most ambient or interesting light. I shot it in 1 and 1/2 hours, editing the next day and went running down at 3pm to upload it before the deadline. It turned out pretty cute for what it was, and it is a completely different thing than anything I've done before, genre-wise. I'll add the link in when I get it up on YouTube.
And on top of all that I was covering about 3 meetings a day to pitch my feature projects. Some of the meetings were great, others might be great - we'll see, and a few were just a waste of time, but that's kind of how it goes there. You just don't know who you are actually talking to and what they can do and what they want until you are sitting there with them. Either way it isn't painful to take a meeting on a patio, on a beach, just feet from the ocean with all the yachts bobbing in the water in front of you!
In the end, I met a few producers who might be interested in one or two of my film projects. And I had a few buyers check out my short. And I made a short film. Not bad.
Add to that some AMAZING food and wine, good people, fun parties, celeb sightings and all in all it was a pretty great experience. As far as the business goes...What sticks and what falls out? We'll see over the next few months.
This was the first year I put a short film at the Short Film Corner. For those of you that don't know the Corner, it's like a mini market for short films. It costs about $100 US dollars and they put the film in a database on a bunch of terminals in a designated short film area. Buyers, theoretically are supposed to come in and view films to buy, though truthfully, it seemed to me that there were more hits from other short makers than anything else. I was actually pretty disappointed not to have had more buyers and distributors see it and I would hold off recommending using the short market to anyone unless they just want to have the Cannes experience. I know other friends who did it in the past and their films didn't get seen or bought. I thought it might be different for me because I was there working it, sending emails out, letting people know it was available. Still, I think only about 6 buyers actually went to see it. Others though have asked for a screener, so the way I look at it is, it motivated me to be proactive with the film so maybe that's enough.
While I was there, they were running a short film making contest. They picked 250 premises for a 3 minute film and gave Flip Cameras to those they chose and luckily I was one of them. It's a tiny little camera, with a limited zoom. Basically a point and shoot. But it takes fairly good images - better if you don't move too much, cause it does get some graininess in the blacks with movement. But regardless. I got a camera so I figured what the heck. I threw together a little script, found a few actors and a camera guy who was amazingly steady considering the entire thing was steadicam style movement. My husband and I "location" scouted for the best night locations with the most ambient or interesting light. I shot it in 1 and 1/2 hours, editing the next day and went running down at 3pm to upload it before the deadline. It turned out pretty cute for what it was, and it is a completely different thing than anything I've done before, genre-wise. I'll add the link in when I get it up on YouTube.
And on top of all that I was covering about 3 meetings a day to pitch my feature projects. Some of the meetings were great, others might be great - we'll see, and a few were just a waste of time, but that's kind of how it goes there. You just don't know who you are actually talking to and what they can do and what they want until you are sitting there with them. Either way it isn't painful to take a meeting on a patio, on a beach, just feet from the ocean with all the yachts bobbing in the water in front of you!
In the end, I met a few producers who might be interested in one or two of my film projects. And I had a few buyers check out my short. And I made a short film. Not bad.
Add to that some AMAZING food and wine, good people, fun parties, celeb sightings and all in all it was a pretty great experience. As far as the business goes...What sticks and what falls out? We'll see over the next few months.
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