Experience Summary

The Florida Film Festival provided us with a great experience and opportunity to work with a wonderfully talented and humble filmmaker, Ken Eng. After meeting with our director for a couple hours we were determined to help this guy's film get an audience. He was so passionate about his film that the passion leaked over onto us. After giving us fliers and after we printed out hundreds more fliers, we gave them out to a Dunkin' Donuts to distribute in every customers bag (along with coupons). We were hoping that this would reach an older crowd that would more likely have time to come and view the screenings that were during work day hours. We also distributed hundreds of fliers to hotels and Chinese restaurants around the Maitland and Orlando area, as well as passed out fliers at the Florida Film Festival. We also were able to hand out fliers at Megacon, hoping to reach an anime crowd that is predominately Asian. We also spread the word through social media. I personally have a twitter account for my film production company that has over 2,500 followers that I posted on several times, promoting the film and the festival. We also went to many of Mr. Eng's public meet and greets, where we took many pictures and videos (as well as interviewing Mr. Eng ourselves) to post on the blog, hoping to promote the film through that as well. After two successful screenings and a very happy director, I would say we accomplished our task and had a great time doing it.
 This was a great experience that we all are thankful for. It was great to work so closely with our director and the festival. We learned how the festival works and we also learned what it takes to make a film and have it go through the film process. We are very grateful this class was able to provide us with this experience and it was very rewarding to help out the amazing man the Ken Eng was to us. I speak for everyone when I say that if we were given the opportunity to do this again, we would.