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1. FESTIVAL INTRO: Hey, everybody.
It's Nick Nobelski. I am the writer and director of Blink the Blue Elephant
with Pink Ears. I just submitted it to the Santa Fe International
Film Festival. It's a film festival
that's accredited by IMDB. And also, it's a
qualifier for the Oscars. I know it's a long shot,
but it's possible. And the whole video or
animation was created with AI. And guess what?
They accepted it. So it is currently
in consideration, and I want to give
that same gift to you that I have bestowed
upon myself. I know that you have created something amazing. I've seen it. I've been on the groups,
on Facebook groups. I've been on Instagram. I've
seen some amazing work. Why should you just keep
it to social media? So one of the more
exciting things we'll be talking about
in part of the class is I will teach you how to submit not just to
local film festivals, but we're going to be looking at national international
film festivals. And here you can see on the
page Madrid Sundance. Right? That's the most very
popular Robert Redford led film festival. And they're all over the
place. They're in America. They're in every single country. You'd never believe it, but
they're all over the place. And so we're going to
be going through this, and we're going to learn
how to submit to them. My background has
always been creative. I've always pushed the limit. I've always gone into things that I didn't
know a thing about. And I submitted I've
published over 25 books. But this is about AI.
This is about animation. This is about something that
is closer to your heart, something that maybe you think that maybe you just
thought about on a whim. And you said, You know what? I can put something together. I can make something that is
from me, is from my heart. And that's what I'm
going to try and do. For your project, you'll
be submitting your film. I will take you step by
step on how to do that. And then we will also reap some additional benefits having the festivals contacting you. Won't that be nice? So you're
going to learn the process. You're going to
learn how to do it. You're going to learn. Now, this is not a learn how to create your animation video. I will talk a little bit about resolutions and how to
get your film ready, but that is another
course that I'm teaching. Worthy of winning
a film festival. If you're interested in learning how I was able to
submit my film, then join the class.
I'll see you inside.
2. ClassPart1: I wanted to just
briefly talk about a little bit about the class and how we're
going to go from here. This class is not a How to
make an animated movie. I have another class for that. What this is is once you
have something and I've seen a lot of you share
on Facebook groups, for instance, Instagram,
you're showing your videos, and they're already clipped together and put together
really, really nicely. They're already videos.
They're already movies. And so what the idea of this class is to help
you get that video or that animation or film
to go beyond social media, to take it to film festivals. And so what this class is going to be set out to
do is I'm going to talk just minimally about upgrading
or upscaling your videos, and then we're going to go
right into the software. All right. So let's get started. This is a very popular. It's kind of trending right now. It's a video that was created. I think the original box was an Ikea box I saw one for Legos. And this is My prompt
for Pottery Barn. I'm just going to go ahead
and play that for you. So you can tell by the video that it's a very high
resolution image. The image is live or more
based on reality, animation. But when you go
to download this, so when you go to
download it appear, you have three
different choices. You can do animated Jif,
which is very low resolution. You have original size, which
is 720 P, and then upscale. It's a no brainer to do upscale because there is zero
cost to do upscale. There's no charge for that, so you might as well
go ahead and do it. What's this? Because when you
go into the film festivals, they're looking
for at least 720. Some are looking
for at least 1080. So make sure that you're doing everything that you're
going to be submitting to the film festivals
as 1080 P. Also, the videos coming out
of Google VEO are, I believe, 8 seconds Max. You can go into frames to video, and you can extend videos
to I think it gives you an additional 6 seconds
and then download that. What I do is I
incorporate all of my finished pieces into Canva. Now, Canva has a video editor. You can use any video editor. You can use Fomora.
You can use Cap Cut. I'm not sure if Runway has one, but you can use anything that
you feel comfortable with. Premiere, Adobe has premiere. So there's any type of any type of software app that will allow you to put
the clips together, I would suggest you do that. Now, if you have a film that's already produced,
it's a no brainer, right, and you feel
comfortable with it, you feel like that's a
high enough resolution. I would also, if you look
at the bottom prompt here, this prompt was written to be in four K aspect ratio 16 by nine. What you're seeing 16
by nine is for YouTube. I wouldn't do
anything in TikTok. TikTok is more vertical. I just don't know if the film
festivals will take that. It'll be safer to do it in 169. That way you know
you're going to be in this horizontal image. But you have to inspect
all of your clips, make sure that there
are no extra legs. Even though we're not in
Gen one anymore with video, you're still seeing
it once in a while. There might be a
couple fingers extra. Make sure you're giving
them a good product. Now, sound is tricky because
this is sound that's built into this
animation or this video. If you're bringing
your own sound in, there are a ton of
apps that do that. I know the most popular
one probably is 11 Labs. There's another one called
Killer Voice, I think. I'm not sure exactly
the name of it, but there are a ton
of those as well. And Runway has audio as well. So make sure your audio is of the highest
quality as well. Music, if you're doing music, make sure you have rights to it. Now, there's music in Canva, but you have to check to make sure that you can
use it for a film. You might be able to use
it for personal use, but you have to double check to make sure you can use
it for commercial. You have to make sure there's
a commercial license. If you have your own,
that's even better. Or if you want to create
something with let's say Sno. So SNO, they have a
commercial license. You have to, I believe,
be a paying customer to get the commercial license. That's another
great alternative. Now, we're going to quickly
just go into Canva, just so I can show you
what I'm talking about, and we're going to
look at my video link. So this is Canva. And it's on the homepage, you just go to video and you
start your imagery here. So in all, I probably
have over 20, maybe 30 different
clips that are here. I have also audio, and there's also
the way I did it, I wrote the story. I ran it through in video, AI and got a AI voice over, and they produced it with
a song, thing like that. Like I said, I'm not going
to go into detail with that. But once you get to this point, you're going to go over to
share, which is right up here, you're going to
share this Download, and it's going to be MP
four right over here. And then depending on how many pages or you
have to double check this before you make
sure that you're getting all 21 pages that aren't
any extra pages anywhere. And then you would hit Download and that's going to
save it as P four. Then you'll take that file, and then we're going to
go into our next video, and we're going to
show you how to take your video into all
the film festivals.
3. ClassPart2: All right, everybody.
We're back. And you should go
to your website, Chrome, Firefox, whatever
you want to use, and type in filmfreway.com. Filmfreaydt com is kind of like a depository
almost in a way. It's like the main
page where all of the film festivals that
are out there rely on for you to create a profile, upload your video, and you
can see everything here. So instead of having now, here's the important thing. When I did mine,
I wanted to find out were there any film festivals that I could
submit to for AI. I found a bunch, and
I came to this site, and I noticed that there were
move this out of the way. If I go to Browse festivals, I noticed that I wanted Op only. I wanted to be able
to do animation. And short. And they
don't list AI here, but you could try maybe
new media or experimental. And so when I got the ones
that I wanted to look at, I thought about Sundance. I really did, but I know that Sundance is super competitive, and I know that it's going to be hard to
probably get in there. So I went through, and
one of my criteria was, I wanted to see if
I could see if I could get an academy
award qualifier. Okay. So after you put in all of your criteria
of what you want, then you can just go down
here at the very bottom. You can also look also for
the qualifying festivals. If you click on this link, it'll bring up all of the ones on the right hand side here of all the different
festivals that are award qualifying. And
there's different ones. There's Canadian Screen
Award qualifying, BAFTA qualifying,
and so on and so on. So you can see all the
big ones are here. I mean, Sundance film festival, of course, eedsFlm Festival, Academy Award qualifying, Warsaw Film Festival,
Los Angeles. I mean, there's over I mean, anybody who's anybody
is doing this. And you can break it
down. Look at this. This one is for the Pan
African Film Festival. You know, if you feel like
you're in that niche, you can also do that, as well. So the one I felt,
I went through and looked for Academy
Award qualifiers. And the one that
popped up for me was the Santa Fe Film Festival. Why did I choose Santa
Fe Film Festival? First of all, it's
only one stay over. I can actually drive there if I wanted to, if I
wanted to attend it. And I just thought it
was a smaller one. Maybe I had a better
chance of winning, but it was an Academy Award
qualifier. So why not, right? So before you submit, so when I went to submit, it gave me the
deadline of today. Most of them, you'll
see deadline today, deadline today, deadline today. The thing is when you go into some of these festivals,
for instance, let's say we go here.
This is Sundance. And, you know, you watch
the Oscars in March, I believe, and then you kind of forget about it
till next year, right? But as a filmmaker, you
can't forget about it. And you got to look at when
the opening dates are and the sooner you can submit your
movie, the cheaper it will be. So you can see here, May 1, this is opening up the date
for the following year, and then it'll keep on going on. There'll be early deadline, official deadline,
late deadline. And a lot of these will be
like six or seven deadlines. But the problem is they keep on getting more and
more expensive. So for me, for Santa Fe, the event is in October, I believe, and the cutoff was like that day that
I was submitting to. And so I went ahead and did it. Now, what I found
out after the fact, I think it charged me $50 for the submission and then it asked me if I wanted
to become a gold member. And so what the gold
member gives you, you can see a lot of these if I go back out
here a little bit, you can see a lot of these
say gold, gold, gold, gold. And gold is they're
cheaper, basically. So the first one you pay, you have to pay for
your submission, and you have to pay for
the full gold membership, which I believe is only $15. And what that's
going to give you is it's going to give
you a discount on any other submission that you
make after your first one. And actually, the first one, I think you get a discount, too. So you'll get the
gold membership price of the first
one that you did. And so, really,
it's a no brainer. Go for the gold. And then what that's going to give you is also 50% off on their marketing. And then we're
going to talk about market a little bit later. So what do we do first? Well, we have to
set up our profile. So if you go to the dashboard, you can see, here's
a little bit here. It's got some information
about when I submitted. There's the total price I paid. That price does include
the gold submission or the gold membership or
whatever you want to call it. And then we go
into view profile. So here's my profile.
This is my main page. And then I haven't chosen to do any photos just because I don't
have any right now. You can do a poster, which
is what I've done here. I have a poster, and you can do your little description of who you are or what
the movies about. It will also ask
for your socials, your Instagram
account, your YouTube, website, email, all
that other stuff. If you are submitting something, make sure that it's
at the final stage right before you submit it. If you make any major
changes to the video, they ask you to be polite and contact the festival people, the festival or film freeway to let them know that
you've made some changes. This is the main
page where you would submit all of your I
have View project. This is the main page where
you submit your video. This is where if I
needed to update it, I would upload it here, but there's no reason
for me to do it. Look This is only a
minute 43 seconds, but it's 104 megabytes.
Keep that in mind. So it says upload or link
project files such as videos, photos, zip files, VR
installation files, and more. You can even do VR
films, which is crazy. I've seen some of them
out there that are 360. Those should also
considered for this. Here's my poster. And also included here is a quick little
synopsis of what it is. And then my biography as well, and a little director statement. And I'm very open about this. I said, It's an AI
assisted animated short. I don't want anybody to feel
like I'm hiding anything. And then here's my website,
Facebook, Instagram. I have room for
additional photos, and then you have a
trailer here as well. So kind of keep that in mind
when you're doing your have a nice professional image
of your photograph. Like I said, this is the poster. And that's it. It can't
be any easier than that. Like I said before,
if you want to add an article, this
is the place to do it. If you want to add any
other attachments, maybe you have images of you, you know, on set. But what does on set mean? You're AI if you're doing AI? If you have any talent
agents, any talent managers, publicists, legal representatives,
you would put this here. Why? Because then people
can get in touch with you. And if you do, you look a
little bit more legit, right? But it doesn't really matter because you're
just starting out. So I don't think that
really matters for you when you come to once
you're in the system. Then I go back to the dashboard, and I can then go to
I have those emails. I can then use the code that they've provided
for me as a discount. And I wish I'd seen it sooner. I would have saved a lot
of money, but that's okay. I'm very happy with
what I've done so far.
4. ClassMarketing: Go back to browsing festivals.
So here's the thing. I submitted to the Santa Fe
International Film Festival. I will hear, I believe I hear
in September, September 1, I hear when if or not that I
got accepted as a nominee, and then the actual
event is in October. Let me see if I can just
quickly look at that really quickly. There we go. Santa Fe International. And that is right
here, View Festival. And then here are the deadlines. So notification is September 9. I have to wait a whole
another month to hear whether or not
I got nominated. And then the event is
October 15 to the 20th. And as you can see, they've had some big names
there to be there. And then these are all the
categories, et cetera, that I think I did
Experimental Short, or I might have done
animated short. I'm not really sure
which one I chose. What's great about
it, too, is you'd be surprised there are some
really good prizes. If you're doing and I've
seen a lot of good videos there on Facebook, a
lot of you out there. But look at these prizes, courtesy of Panavision,
valued at 60,000, a post production
package from light iron, valued at 30,000,
1,000 cash prize. That's nothing to be ashamed of. If you win one of these prizes, $500 cash for some of
these smaller things. They also do first time writer, first time script
that you wrote. First time producer, those types of things are there as well. I think you have to
submit for that, though. I don't think that's
like telling them that. I don't think that's part of it. You have to actually submit
as a first time director. So then you got the rules, and these are different
from each each one. You have to be very
careful with this. And one of the things
that I read when I was submitting is that you have to make sure that
you're not for them. They don't want it
shown anywhere else. So I did showcase it
at my social media. I took all of my videos down. Now you can only receive
it if you have an email. So you have to be very careful and read all of the fine print, make sure that you're
meeting all the criteria. Now, remember, there are
14,000 different festivals. There are over 233 that are
BAFTA or their Academy Award. Events. So for me, I acted really quickly, and I submitted very quickly. I took care of it, and
it's already done. But, you know, I'm okay with not showing it to anybody
right now. That's fine. Other things that we
need to talk about is, um, you're probably thinking, Okay, well, I should
submit to Sundance. I should submit to Tribeca. I should submit to Holly Shortz. I should blah, blah, blah. You know, don't do
that, and here's why. In fact, before you
even lift a finger to submit your film
for this course, you need to go on Instagram
or Facebook or Twitter or X. And look for coupons
for filmfreeway.com, and see if you can find
any because you might save 20 $30 on your
first submission, something I did not know
until after the fact. So for me, I paid
$65 that first day, and I'm okay with that. But if I could save $30, why not, right? So
here's the kicker. Because I became a gold member, the gold member is
going to give you 50% off of marketing costs. So let's go over
here we're going to leave them actually
and go back to, um Alright, so here we are here we are
in the marketing section. This is I'll leave
the link up to you. Make sure I can show to you
real quickly there it is. Film filmfreeway.com
festivals marketing. And so what this is
going to give you, especially if you're
a gold member, you get 50% off on a lot of the things here
that they provide you. They have email promotion. So gold members save an additional 30% of
all marketing plans. I know that for the
one that I had, it was a website. Let's see if I can find it. Promos, Highlights. I think it was a
highlight listing. Yeah. So this is what I had. I had a highlight listing. It ran the Sunday
after I submitted. I thought the sooner,
the better, right? And so what it gave
me was 50% off. I was normally a $20 listing, and I paid $10 for it. And what that gave me was
over 130 different festivals contacting me and offering me to be kind of like an
invite with a discount. So only submit once. Don't submit when you first see this and you
get all excited, don't submit to one,
two, three, four. You're going to be
spend a fortune. Why not just do one. And then once you
become a gold member, you'll have access
to the marketing. For me, it was 50% off, but that listing and
just to give you an idea here to
give you an idea, here are some of the places that have already contacted me. I don't know if Sundance and those types of people have been in there,
but look at this, Portugal, over and over
London. Just a ton of them. And I would say on average, it's anywhere 30-50% off. Most of them are 25% off. So, you get a couple here or there that
might give you $5 off. But if that's something
that you want to do, let's say you $1,000
and you said, Hey, I'm going to do this.
I'm gonna go all in. I believe this I
believe in this, you know, this film. And why not? If you
have that you know, mine it's a minute 43 video. So but if you feel like you have something that you really
want to submit to, why not? It goes on and on and on
and on. Now, don't forget. You have to keep in mind that
you're going to get money. The cost of this is
anywhere $30-7585. But then on's see
you get nominated, you're gonna have to
go fly to this city, hotel, transportation, all
that stuff. Keep that in mind. But you do have an
opportunity to go to all these different festivals just from this one site.
So let's look at deals. Look at this. Cs film
awards, 50% off, right? These are all the codes.
You can just copy these codes. It's pretty cool. So if you have any
Latino festival Santa Barbara
International screen, 25% off, Lucille
International film, Filmatic comedy screenplay
awards, 20% off. And this is what I was
trying to get to before. They have these little laurels. You might have seen that in
some of the other posters, the laurels, you know, nominated at the
Silicon Beach Festival, winner of this festival,
winner of this festival. You've seen posters like
that before where they have the laurels and then
they list them all down. And there's more
and more and more. You just go on film freeway and you find all
these on your own, all these different
percentage savings. Why not? Right? Um,
I was too quick. I was too quick to
just submit mine. I didn't save any money. So for that first one, and you
can go to filmfreeway.com, browse Festivals, click on that left Link and see all
the deals for yourself. This is public knowledge. There's there's nothing
proprietary about this. I don't know if they
give you dollars. I think it's all percentages. Yeah. So that's something
else you can do. Um, and then you just wait.
Then you have to wait. But make sure if you're going
to do multiple submissions, make sure that you look
at the fine print. If you're showing
this, you know, maybe you're just showing
a little bit of it. For my movie, maybe
I'll make a bigger one. Then it's okay. I can use it. And then I take that
bigger one and I can submit to a different
movie altogether. I'm sorry, a different
film festival altogether, and it's a totally
different film. Just keep that all in
mind. Alright, here we go. Marketing Service
promote your work. So here we go. Website
marketing. This is what I did. Your project will be featured in the special section of the
Festival dashboard page of every festival manager festival programmer account
on film Freeway. 14,000 festivals.
So think about it. Out of those 14,000 festivals, I only received about
130 festival invites, but still I got 100
more than I had before. And so next available
is September 4. Mine was immediate, so I took advantage of
it immediately. And I'm still poring over these festivals.
Isn't that crazy? Then they have
featured projects, same price, email marketing. You know, you can go,
I mean, expensive. Just be careful
with that. Um, Then there's a ton of stuff
here that you can do. So what I would suggest you
do is set up your profile, make sure it's crystal clear. You've got a nice
headshot. Your video is in great quality. Make sure that you have a
nice poster that you've done, make sure that you have
everything that's there. You don't have to do the poster, but it's a good
idea and a trailer. I would do a trailer as well. And then you have your profile, and then everybody can see it.
5. Update on Gold Membership: Hey, everybody. It's Nick and I just wanted to update
you some information. I just found out today that the gold membership is a
monthly charge. I had no idea. They just charged me and I
asked for a credit back. I had no idea. So when you
do see that gold membership, it's good for one
month, I think. That's what you want
to do is get into as many festivals as you want. You can always pick back up again when you're
going to do it. Again, let's say you wanted
to do some right before the Oscars or something, then
I would go ahead and do it. But just keep that in mind, the gold membership is a
monthly recurring charge of 14 99. Just want to let you
know. See you later.
6. FreeFestivals: Alright, we're back. And
this is the final film, the final video in
our Skillshare class. But I wanted to share with you some great sites that you
can still get access to. If you can't afford the ones
we talked about previously, definitely look at these. These are specifically for AI. And so there's no
reason why you. There's so many
of you out there. I've talked with some
of you already that have films that I've seen
that have just blown me away. And so I encourage you, especially that guy that
does the 360 VR thing. That things amazing. So
there's several sites, we're just going to go
through them one by one. And this one, I believe
you have till July 31. So go ahead and do that. Take advantage of that. And by all means, here's another one. And another and we have I think this one is
Replay Film Festival. Curious refuge. Curious refuge. And the next one is New York. New York short
Animation Festival. I'm pretty sure they have AI. If not, we'll see. Ottawa. So no excuses. If you're taking my course,
you know how to do it. If you're not taking
my course, sign up. I'll post a coupon down below, so you
can take the course. I'll give you that extra bit of information that will save
you a lot of money once you do select once you
decide to submit your film. So please check that out. The other thing is,
I saw this one. I haven't done it
yet, but I'm in the midst of doing it is kind of like the
same setup that we had in the course at
that I taught you. This is more of an
international flavor. So I plan on submitting my
film to this one, as well. So you have so many
choices, okay? I hope you take
advantage of them. And if not, I'll see you soon.
7. Join Me on the Red Carpet: Hey, everybody. It's Nick. I wanted to add a
little addendum to our little course we have
here about film festivals. I came upon something that
really kind of caught my eye, threw me off a little bit. And I was looking through
festivals in France. Especially con. And I noticed that the
official con awards that the email that I
received that I've been posting on social
media came from them. And so I went to their
website, but I looked at the stage to where the
winners were standing, and a lot of people were
standing there in jeans. And I said, There's no way
this is the official C Awards. And when I did a
little more digging, I found that this site is
the official con awards, but it's not a C C Awards. It's C festival or festival to C. And so
this is the big one. This is the one we see
all the time, you know, with all the hot shots getting pictures
and the red carpet. They're all in tuxes and
nice beautiful dresses. But it's set up a
little bit differently than film freeway.com. And I'm going to show you
just in a little bit, we're going to show
you the difference. So this one is specifically to, like I said, they've
been around a long time, and you're going to see
a lot of big names here, but doesn't mean that you
can't submit your film. In fact, they do have some
great awards for you. Um, as long as your video is between 1
minute and 15 minutes, you can apply for the
short film competition. And then they also
work with students. Students have their own awards, awards they can win. Of course, feature film, this is not going to apply
to you because it's really more for short films. And they don't work
with any films between 15 minutes
and 60 minutes because the student film
is in that kind of range. So they do that by themselves. Now, I'm not going to go into details because
you really have to go to each festival and
look at their criteria. They're very, very unique. I believe it's $60
or 60 euros to join to apply here.
Does it mean you can't? 15 minute video is a
short film to them, and that's where you have
an opportunity to shine. And so the biggest
difference is you cannot show your film at any
international film festival. Can't show it online. It has to really be specifically
for C. So if you're really going for the big
one, the big Kahuna, and you want to get into
C, then I suggest I strongly suggest that you make a film that's
specifically for them. The good news is the
cutoff is in March. So next year is really
after the Oscars, that's really when all of
the film festivals commence. So with having an
early cutoff period, you can submit to them first, and then, um you'll
find out in May. I mean, May is you'll
find out before that, but May is the awards. And then a lot of
these other festivals, they're pretty much starting in May and June and July
is when you can do it. So like, right now,
I just submitted to two festivals for my 1
minute and 43 second video, and they're still
taking submissions. So that's something
to think about. So if you're really into this
and you really want to make a splash and you think
your movies just so good, that's what I would do. I would go here first and really work on making
it the best it can be. So, yeah, you can't
show anywhere. And so that negated my film, my 1 minute 43
second film because it's already into
international film festivals, and just right away, I can't submit it to C. And I kind of feel like I really want to do
another one anyways, and I've been really
working on a new script, and I'll be starting production
on that very quickly. So the main thing here, again, is one to 15
minutes, short film. You can submit it feature film, which is over 60 minutes. And if you're a student, which I'm hoping
some of you are, you'll go through your school, and you have a special award at the festival, which is there. If you have there's also
another section of C, where it's more for short film. I think it's called a
short film competition. There's no awards, and I
think I'm not positive, I think it's a free submission, but there are no awards, but it's more of a
networking event where you learn and you network with people and
that type of thing. But it does take place
at the same time as C. So you're still kind
of, you know, there. Remember, it's going to be costly probably to
get a hotel room. You can also look around the outside areas
of C. For that. But I just wanted to tell you that it's set up differently. You do not go through
film freeway.com. You have to go to
this site only, and that is festival hyphenccnns.com to
submit your festival. So if you click on Take Part, you can see submit a film. And so you have
your feature films, your short films,
Lanf is an award. And then CGlasics. I'm
not sure what that is. Let's look at that real quick. So this is a heritage work
must be a heritage work, newly restored copies of old films and that type of
thing. So that's pretty cool. Now, let's switch gears and
talk about film freeway.com, which is what most of
this class is about. What I received was I received an invitation from C film
awards, and I was so excited. I thought, Oh, Con has
selected me. I can't wait. So I was a little concerned because I had it is an AI film, and it is only a
minute, 43 seconds. So I contacted them. And within a couple of days
later, they sent me, Yes, you can submit anywhere from 1 minute oh I don't know what it's 15
minutes, I think, I'm not sure. And so, yeah, you can do that. And, you know, they
went to my site. They looked at my trailer.
They said, You know, these are the categories they
think you should submit to. So they gave me three
categories to submit to. Really psyched about
that. And then I saw this just today. AI Film Awards. Con 2026. I don't know how they
did it because it's not in C, but it's in Dubai. So, it got me really thinking, but it's the AI Film Awards. So let's go to the
festival. Look at it. It's good to be in Dubai. I don't know why why
would they call it? But it looks like this
looks like France. This looks like France,
but it says Dubai. So it's a little confusing. Um, it's only the third year that's been going on.
But think about this. This is specifically to AI. You don't see this a lot
in film freeway.com. You have to dig, and I usually you would
look as experimental, new media, that type of thing. But this is a specific
AI film festival. In fact, there's
another one that I submitted to. I
think it's in LA. I think it's called
the LA AI Awards. But this is pretty cool. This is in C. It's Baia Dubai. Maybe they'll have some
Dubai chocolate there. I'm not sure. But it's
something to look at. And what I like
about this is it's got a May 3, 2026 late deadline. So I hope this helps. It's just another way
to make your films, get global exposure,
and who knows, right? Who knows? You may
be walking down the red carpet with me. I'll see you later.
8. Project: Your film project, it's
going to be super simple. All I want you to do is
I want you to fill out your profile on filmfreeway.com. I want you to submit your film. I want you to submit a
trailer and do a description. And you can use HHEPT
to help you with the descriptions or anything like that if you can't write. If you're not used
to writing ask hachPT to write
something up for you. And also, if you want,
you can do a poster. I recommend it,
but you don't have to and any pictures that
you want to submit. And you don't have to show
me as far as proof of that, but just tell me in
some form or another, at the end of this class
that you've done it. You know, I've given
you all the tools necessary to do this, and hopefully you've learned
a lot from this class. I hope you have. And if not, if you want to
book a one on one, I'm here for you. Go
ahead and do that. I'll be setting up some
one on one sessions soon, and don't forget to
take my other course, how to make an animated film. That's next. Alright.
Take care. Bye bye.
Nick Nebelsky, Writer/Director/Author/Illustrator/AI Enthusiast
