This just in:
Dear Ingrid Jungermann & Sara Winters,
Thank you for your interest in our festival.
We feel honored to select your film LOVE SUCKS to the 8th Q! Film Festival.
I attach with this e-mail, the Official Confirmation Letter.
Please send the completed form as soon as possible.
Look forward to hearing from you.
Warm regards,
Suryani Liauw
Q! Film Festival 2009
26 July – 5 August Jakarta
8 – 13 August Bali
www.qfilmfestival.org
We’ll keep you posted on the date and time!
Next stop for “Love Sucks?” Hartford, CT, for the Out Film CT Gay & Lesbian Film Festival! Looks like we’re screening there on May 24. More details to come, so check out Festivals & Screenings soon for the specifics.
For the record (because there is one), our film also screened at two other locations in Australia: The Bendigo Queer Film Festival in Victoria and the Tropical Alternative Film Festival.
Ingrid’s going to be in North Carolina for the summer but word on the street is Sara miiiiiight just take a road trip to Hartford for the Connecticut premiere. Could be a rumor, though. You know celebrity gossip – never know what to believe.
In other news, we got screener requests from the MIX Milano Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (Italy), the OutView Film Festival (Athens, Greece) and the Q! Film Festival (Indonesia), so we’ll be sending DVDs out as fast as our little walking dead legs will carry us.
News is in. Looks like we’re screening on March 21 & 28 at ACMI Cinemas in Melbourne. We’re part of the Femme Fatalities session which looks right up our alley. If you decide to peruse the site, definitely check out the trailer for “In Twilight’s Shadow.” We wish we could be there to share in the fun and compare vampire notes. Good luck to MQFF!
For full details of the screening, go to Festivals & Screenings.
In other news Down Under, our film will be showing Tropic Alernative Film Festival in Cairnes, Australia. We’ll post more information as we receive it. Sort of boggles my mind that our little film has played in four festivals in three countries!
We got a few more requests for screeners, among them being from the Big Sur International Short Film Screening Series in California. Looks like a cool festival so we’re hoping they see something in “Love Sucks” that they like. Also shipped out DVDs to Out Connecticut, Philadelphia QFest and MichFest Film Festival. Not sure where the programmers got our info but we’re thankful they got it somewhere! We’ll keep you posted.
We’re shipping off our digibeta to the Melbourne Queer Film Festival in a couple of weeks (they pay for shipping, which is really nice) and we wanted to share how great they’ve been already. Festival Director Lisa Daniel told us in an email:
“I curate a tour of the MQFF highlights to queer film starved folk in other parts of Australia, and I’d love to be able to send LOVE SUCKS to a couple of locations in rural Victoria and Far North Queensland for a screening. Dates are throughout April and start of May (approx 5 screenings altogether).”
So, we get to travel around Australia without really traveling around Australia. Thanks to MQFF and Lisa.
Hello, faithful “Love Sucks” followers!
Shipped off several DVDs yesterday to gay and lesbian film festivals in Tel Aviv (Israel), Toronto, Torino (Italy) and Oslo (Norway). Our most recent screener request was from the Miami and Fort Lauderdale Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals (which would be very special to me because I was born and raised in Florida), so we applied via withoutabox and will ship that off shortly.
I also sent off my play, “The Art of Leaving,” to New Georges Theatre in New York and to a friend in Wilmington, NC, to see if I can generate any interest in producing a theater production. I’m going to plug myself again for news like this assuming people are as interested in me as I am. And believeyoume, I am interested in me (just ask my friends): www.ingridjungermann.wordpress.com.
Great news just in. Our film was chosen to screen at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival in Australia in March of 2009. The staff at MQFF is going to fly us out there, put us up and give us free drinks for days. That’s a lie. That’s not happening. But we are extremely excited that our film will be shown in the largest film festival in Australia! Thanks to the programmers there for given us the opportunity. We will post specific screening information once we get an update.
Hello folks. We’ll now be posting here every couple of weeks since news has died down and Sara and I have our own blogs to keep you posted on creative endeavors (since you are all extremely aware of and concerned for our creative endeavors). Check back here and there for updates on further “Love Sucks” screenings, distribution and the possibility of a sequel.
We have Frameline to thank for all our “Love Sucks” success. If it weren’t for them, we would not have gotten into Seattle or Montreal, we would not have gotten distribution in Canada and we would not have gotten numberous submission requests. The most recent is from the New Zealand’s ‘Out Takes’ Reel Queer Film Festival:
Our 14th festival is scheduled to run from 21 May to 10 June 2009 in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
I understand you are the filmmaker of the film ‘Love Sucks’ which screened this year in the Frameline Film Festival. I just thought I’d let you know submissions for Out Takes 2009 are open and we’d be happy to consider this film for inclusion in our festival next year. There is no entry fee.
Will the film be available in late May/early June 2009? If you’re interested and the film would be available for these dates, we’d very much appreciate it if you could fill out the submission form and return it to us, along with a DVD (preferred) or VHS preview of the film, as soon as possible. If it won’t be available, I’d appreciate it if you could let me know anyway.
If someone else handles international distribution for your film, then please forward this message to them, or let me know and I will contact them directly.
Thank you, and I look forward to hearing from you.
If you want to check out the festival, too, go to http://www.outtakes.org.nz.
