nev
Super Térrarist
Re: Bright ADV Film Festival Feb 10.-12.
Having been to the ATFF the past 5 years, this year was disappointing. It was definitely the first time I've said "I probably won't go next year". When a new festival like this comes along, you expect the first few to have growing pains and teething problems, but you expect that after 5 or 6 years, they should have most of those sorted out and the event should run like a well oiled machine.
Credit where credit is due. There's obviously a lot of work gone into arranging the venues, curating the movies, organising volunteers and getting everything up and running, but a film festival required films to be shown and the one thing that really hasn't improved year on year is their ability to actually screen films. Several sessions we went to had problems screening the movie because the movie kept bufferring and freezing for many seconds at a time and both times a replacement computer had to be brought in and then the movie .mp4 video file had to be copied onto the new computer from an external drive. When you charge up to $125 for a weekend pass you owe the punters a bit more reliability than a 10" netbook computer probably centrino powered.
Having been to the ATFF the past 5 years, this year was disappointing. It was definitely the first time I've said "I probably won't go next year". When a new festival like this comes along, you expect the first few to have growing pains and teething problems, but you expect that after 5 or 6 years, they should have most of those sorted out and the event should run like a well oiled machine.
Credit where credit is due. There's obviously a lot of work gone into arranging the venues, curating the movies, organising volunteers and getting everything up and running, but a film festival required films to be shown and the one thing that really hasn't improved year on year is their ability to actually screen films. Several sessions we went to had problems screening the movie because the movie kept bufferring and freezing for many seconds at a time and both times a replacement computer had to be brought in and then the movie .mp4 video file had to be copied onto the new computer from an external drive. When you charge up to $125 for a weekend pass you owe the punters a bit more reliability than a 10" netbook computer probably centrino powered.