Been a long time...

Quick Update:

After a long time passing, there will again be occasional posts in order to keep the blog up online.  That'll assure the archive remains available. 

There will be some sketches of what has happened in the meanwhile, especially things that somehow stem from this film project. 

Thank you for your understanding.

Our Trailer is Now on the Road

NEW!

You can now view the trailer
for Road to Opportunity.

Click here to find the link to RTO's Online Video Trailer
posted at the Kids First! website

Vacaville Screening

Festival Announcements

When it comes to festivals, it is easier to find room for a 10 minute short than a feature, so it great to find a festival that will support a 90-minute student film.


The deReel Independent Film Festival is in Australia.




Kids First! makes selected films available on their quarterly US tour roster. (connected with the Coalition for Quality Children's Media)


Look for announcements of upcoming screenings as they come up at Soufifilms.com.

The Jury

It’s also lucky when a filmmaker matches up with a festival’s venue--time and content. It costs money to apply to most film festivals, and usually there’s no money made in the process, so student filmmakers running on a tight budget try to select festivals that seem like good matches.

As independent filmmakers with no other means to distribute our film, we send our work out to the juries and wait.

. . . and sometimes we win.

"Road to Opportunity" is an official selection on a roster of films in a 3-month nationwide tour with Kids First! from the Coalition for Quality Children's Media. "Road to Opportunity" will join other films selected for screening at various venues from mid-April to mid-July. You can watch for tour dates and places as they come up (posted at our new, simple website http://soufifilms.com).

We were also selected to win the “Best of the Rest” award from the DeReel Independent Film Festival in Dereel, Victoria, Australia.

Screen time

Some festivals are non-competitive, but offer screenings for exposure and opportunities.
Even then, there is a competitive element to getting selected for this or any official screening. It's an award in itself. That's why you'll see laurels that state "Official Selection".

Those selections often then run for an award, but sometimes a film runs outside the awards competition when it is outside the official festival categories.For example, the Buckingham Independent Film Festival, which offers a competition for film shorts, will be running our feature after selected shorts, on one evening.Festivals have time considerations, so it's an honor when one chooses to give a longer feature film that much time.

Soufifilms.com

"Road to Opportunity" now has this website that will grow as needed.

We plan to later link our trailer to the site and offer a way to order a copy of the DVD.

DVD ready

Since last post, we designed the menu and chapter selections.

We also finished designing the DVD-box insert (pictured above), so we can begin packaging some "thank you" copies for those who worked on or supported the film. (to enlarge image, right-click it & select "Open Link in New Window")

Distribution? We don't know yet. It's a student work, which may be how it is initially defined, but we will see where this Road leads.