I just wanted to update everyone quickly that Freechain won its first Film Festival award at the first film festival we entered.
Lift off Global Network.
We won the audience award. Unfortunately the judges didnt give us the, lets say, more coveted judges award. But dont be discouraged considering that this festival exists more to support the first time film makers and encourage them to continue their work. It would be a bad move giving both the audience and judge award to the same film, if we indeed boldly assume our film was superior.
Already, in their private chat channels there were people openly complaining that Freechain got more than double the votes than all of the other 6 category winners combined.
So we have definitely been noticed and that might have played a part with judges.
This ofc is not a major festival but our first laurel is definitely welcome. In the end no one seeing it will care about the how and the what. They will see a winner, which Freechain is.
Ultimately Freechain is a film to be seen by the masses, made for people to be educated about this space and entertained. The judges winning choice had a total of 0 audience votes meaning it was probably not seen by anyone.
In my opinion films should be made for audiences, people should care to see it, otherwise its akin to singing in the shower.
Freechain was on top of the voting list for weeks in a festival with more than 300 films. The festival organizers are aware of it and the simple fact that it annoyed some people shows that it garnered interest.
I chalk that down as a win.
Just to mention in the end, I was invited to speak on a livestream with the Lift Off Global festival organizers on 20th February.
On their official youtube channel. Even beyond the win at the festival this is even further a chance for our film and Hive as a whole to get attention.
Ill also be going on another podcast not connected to this next thursday to talk Hive rally and Freechain. Stay tuned for all this.