This article, although very different in tone from the "Festivals" reading, still had the same basic premise: the importance of a sense of community and belonging at film festivals and microcinemas. All of the examples from this article - showing movies in school buses, on the sides of warehouses, and for audiences as small as ten or twenty people - feed into this importance of building an ethos around your event by giving it quirky character. Leaving things a little rough around the edges can make them seem more real and full of personality. This charm might be lost a bit at big, commercialized festivals, but is still obvious in the "fringe of the fringe", as Alvin describes it. I think this is something valuable to keep in mind for VISIONS because it keeps us connected to our roots. Although it is easy to fall into the mindset of trying to emulate large, professional, well-known film festivals, when it comes down to it we are really just a bunch of inexperienced college kids putting on a festival and conference for other inexperienced college kids. But I don't think that is a bad thing at all; it is what makes us unique and I think we can use it to our advantage.
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