Dear Whomever is Bored Enough to Read This,
Here's our plan...
We will be releasing the Wingmen Incorporated website, trailer, $1.99 downloads of the film (film only), and DVD's with loads of extras, all on the same day. We're going to hit everyone with everything we've got from Day 1. The reason our downloads will be so cheap is because we're hoping that people will take a chance on downloading the film, love it, and want to buy the DVD with all the extras. We will be doing our "drunken commentary" again. As well as loads of outtakes & bloopers. We had A LOT of fun on set. There was a lot of improv, bloopers, and outtakes. Not sure what else will be on the DVD's. Definitely will have the trailers to our first two films (The Truth About Average Guys & S.O.L.)
Another part of the reason we want to do this all at once is because we feel that if we come out with a trailer too soon people may forget about us. We want to be available to people the second they see our trailer. We don't want them to have to remember us 2 months later.
We're hoping to do this in April or May (at the latest).
Once the film is done, we'll be submitting to film festivals all over the country. Starting with Sundance. We've gotten some advice as to when the best time to submit to a festival is. Lots of little things you can do to increase your chances of getting in. The odds will still be stacked against us in regards to getting into Sundance. After all, they receive over 10,000 submissions a year and only screen about 200 films. Half of which are shorts. So we'll see how it goes.
But all is not lost if we don't get into Sundance 2014. Sure, that would make things a heck of a lot easier, but we are not failures if we don't get in. We will be submitting to a lot of local and regional festivals. I've got the Midwest covered. Ken has LA & the west coast covered. We're researching festivals on Withoutabox.com (a film festival search site) right now. Looking for anything with a comedy category or great networking opportunities.
One of the festivals I'm most excited about is the Phoenix Film Festival. It's a pretty big festival that S.O.L. almost got into. They sent us the nicest rejection letter we've ever received. They said they really liked the film but it didn't fit with the rest of the program. They invited us to resubmit the film FOR FREE at the early bird deadline to the following year's festival. I took that as they wanted us to be first in line so they could program films around us. Instead of trying to cram us in with films that are nothing like ours. Of course we forgot to resubmit S.O.L. Oops. But we will be sending them Wingmen Incorporated at the early bird deadline in 2013 for the 2014 festival. I like our chances.
Here's a few other festivals that we're looking forward to in 2014...
Trail Dance Film Festival (Duncan, OK): This was the very first film festival that we submitted to back in the fall of 2008. It was also the very first festival that we got accepted into. And the first festival that The Truth About Average Guys won an award at (actually, at the January 2009 festival we took home 3 awards: "Best Comedy", "Best Actress", and "Best of Festival") In January of 2011 our 2nd film, S.O.L., took home the "Viewer's Choice" award. So been there twice & have won 4 awards. If Wingmen Incorporated is fortunate enough to get accepted, we hope to add to that total in January of 2014.
East Lansing Film Festival (East Lansing, MI): This was the 2nd festival we ever got into. They paid for our hotel room while we were there, so we kinda figured that we had won something. We did. We won "Best Feature". We will be submitting to the November 2014 festival. (could have been ready for the November 2013 festival, however, we are saving our "World Premier" for Sundance, so that's pushing everything back some.
Cedar Rapids Film Festival (Cedar Rapids, IA): Since I was born in Iowa (Clinton), we are eligible to submit to this festival. In 2011 we won "Best Feature" for our film The Truth About Average Guys. We will be submitting to the April 2014 festival. As I recall, there were some very entertaining films at this festival. And since it's only 90 minutes from me, I won't go broke trying to get there.
There's tons more, but for the life of me I can't remember them right now.
I will also be putting on a fundraising screening on in Clinton, IA in April or May to help pay for film festival submissions & film festival travel expenses. Ken will be putting on a screening in Chicago for the cast/crew/family/friends/public some time before that.
Anyway, that's the plan going forward! Feel free to check out Wingmen Incorporated's IMDB page by clicking here. There's all sorts of trivia, movie connections, and cast info on the page.
Was going to start my Christmas shopping today, but we're in the middle of a blizzard right now. Oh well, maybe tomorrow.
Jason W. Schaver
Moped Jones Entertainment
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