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Insight #5 - Vasco Alexandre: It’s Extra Effort And Hard Work That Pays Off

May 19, 20230 comments♥ 0
00:02And can tip to watch it somewhere, your short film or even other projects that you worked on?This terror-the-flag short film is done at a lot of festivals now, so at the moment it's not public.The only film that you can watch really, like Yard Kings, which was my short film from Middlesex.It went to be festivals as well, didn't it?Yeah, that film was a good surprise, yeah.We won a lot of stuff.It was good.Like, that film, nobody really in the crew expected what happened.
00:32with the film.How come you weren't so happy with the result?Nah, there was a lot of things we were not proud of.But we were really happy with the film in general,but we were not confident that the film was going to compete with, you know.We won a Royal Television Society, two Royal Television Society awards.We didn't expect that.It was really, really cool.
00:55We won a few things.We won 13 awards in total.Really?Oh.And do you still send it somewhere?it was after you filmed it and not anymore?Actually, like, I put a lot of effort when I finished that film.We put a lot of effort in distributing it.
01:12So, like, first the festival rounds,we actually invested a lot of money in festivals.So when I said that we want to show awards, you know,because it was getting the idea from the sky, you know,we actually, we put ourselves out there.Because sometimes filmmakers, they are like,they think that they have a good film.It's just going to wear all the awards.
01:31if you don't actually apply to stuff.Yeah, I need to put effort into it.Yeah, we put effort and money on that.So that was actually part of our budget, the festival strategy.So yeah, we went to a lot of festivals.We got a lot of rejections as well.A lot of them actually have any more rejections than acceptances,which is perfectly normal.
01:54And we were lacking a few of themand we won like Best Cinematography in Cafoscari.we went to Royalty Television Society Awards.We went to Vyla Dukon in Portugal, which is an Oscar qualifying festival.We went to Indypados in Bulgaria, Oscar qualifying.So across the whole Europe?Yeah.