"Work" a Very Short Film

This film was made for a 10 second film contest: https://vimeo.com/640166376

Why do we toil so long and hard at work, spending most of our time in a miserable cycle? There is so much more to life. Made for the Asheville 10 second film contest.

Hope is in so many film festivals!

Hope has had such great success on the film festival circuit and there's still more to come!  Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make this film.

Winner - Social Justice Film - Holden Village Film Festival
Winner - Best Cinematography - Micropolitan Film Festival
Winner - Best Actress - Micropolitan Film Festival  
Winner - Best movie poster - Longleaf Film Festival
Winner - Best Audio and Music - Colorado International Activism Film Festival
Winner - Best Titles - Colorado International Activism Film Festival
Winner - Best Actress - Colorado International Activism Film Festival
Winner - Silver - Queen Palm Film Festival
Winner - Best movie poster - Alternative Film Festival
Official Selection - Colorado Activism Film Festival
Official Selection - Women Deliver Film Festival
Official Selection - Show Me Justice Film Festival
Official Selection - Carrboro Film Festival
Official Selection - Underexposed Film Festival
Official Selection - Cinema Soup Film Festival
Official Selection - CatFly Film Festival
Official Selection - Guacamole Short Film Festival
Official Selection - Northeast Mountain Film Festival
Official Selection - Charlotte Film Festival 
Official Selection - Women of the Wold Film Festival Tunisia

Film Festival Run Down

You pretty much have a year to show your film on the film festival circuit.  Most festivals won't let you release your film to the public before it screens at their festival and most don't want movies more than a year old.  So a year is about all the time you have for that.  Why?  It's hard enough getting people to attend a film festival, but they keep attendance up by giving cinephiles something different than the mainstream, something new and fresh, and something exclusive.

My Toxic Backyard has had a great run. It's been accepted to 9 different film festivals and even won best film at one of them, which makes this year a great success.  Whenever possible a filmmaker should attend the festivals where their film is screening. I've chronicled my experiences at the Thin Line Film Festival (plus a video here) and on the Southern Circuit (and a radio interview.)  I couldn't make it to the Greenpoint Film Festival but, I was able to send my associate producer, writer and editor Jaime Byrd to accept our award there.

Here is a run down of all the festivals and awards My Toxic Backyard has garnered in the past year:

Winner: Best Documentary Feature, Greenpoint Film Festival
Winner: Best Film, Mountain Express Best of WNC 2014
Nominated: 4 Emmys Including:
      Best Documentary: Katie Damien, Jaime Byrd, Michael Klatt, Bob Peck
      Best Cinematography: (Non-news Photography) Katie Damien
      Best Editing: Jaime Byrd, Katie Damien
      Best Audio Post: Bob Peck, Jaime Byrd, Katie Damien 
Official Selection: Southern Circuit
Official Selection: Thin Line Film Festival
Official Selection: Twin Rivers Film Festival
Official Selection: Reel and Meal
Official Selection: Utopia Film Festival
Official Selection: River's Edge Film Festival
Official Selection: Wild Goose Festival
Official Selection: Compress Fest (trailer)
Official Selection: AAAC Creative Sector Summit

Second Parent Trailer

I'm looking for film festivals to submit this film to.  If you can think of any that would be a good fit, please leave a comment.