She said filmmaking is an inherently collaborative effort, and that festivals should be an avenue to facilitate creative networking and to see how work resonates with different audiences. While that may not have been wholly expected from the outset, Pine believes that kind of connection is the point of events like this. But it was very cool how that happened.”įilmmakers from China, Russia, Spain and other nations are being thrust into creative dialogue with Boston filmmakers at this inaugural festival. “I think Film Freeway did most of the work on that, so I'll give them the credit. “We noticed a bunch of people submitting from all around the world because we gave them the opportunity to do so on the website itself - but how got around internationally, I have no idea,” she said. Then they noticed some surprising submissions. After Freeway approved their pitch, people could start submitting their work. But New York University drama student Pine, 19, said that Film Freeway - a website that connects filmmakers, projects and festivals - was a great help.
Organizing and launching a film festival already seems like a daunting task without the spectre of a global pandemic, let alone the responsibilities of being students. Hence the name: Open Gate International Film Festival. “I feel film festivals are the gateway to connections,” he explained. Both Haley and I are really young and emerging storytellers, and we wanted to provide opportunities to other local and international filmmakers.” From his point of view, the prime opportunity at film festivals is to network and collaborate, so that an artist’s next film can have a larger support system, which he recognizes as essential to filmmaking. “I really wanted to further emphasize that,” Egan said. Screaming Ostrich has a mission to promote diversity in the film industry, but Egan and Pine wanted to take that one step further. In ‘With Dad,’ A Son Documents His Father’s 20-Year Fight With Alzheimer’sĬenturies-Old Portuguese Tradition Of Winemaking Lives On In New BedfordĮgan, an 18-year-old student at Catholic Memorial in West Roxbury, has prior experience in festival management with the Screaming Ostrich Film Festival, also held in West Newton. Arts This Week: Broadway Returns To Boston As 'Hadestown' Takes The Stage
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