Three programs of short films in the afternoon.  This morning I have a workshop thing about auditioning.  Should be interesting.

Oh god, the short films last night, some were good, some weren't, but some *sshole made a last-minute change in his film and didn't check the finished product off the edit bay before submitting it (I assume a different copy made it through the selection process) because about three minutes into the movie, the audio and video go out of sync by a WHOLE MINUTE.  And the characters would spend all this time talking and then not saying anything, so you had silence with their mouths moving and dialogue with their mouths shut.  We had to sit through the whole thing like that.

So the first big thing I learned from the festival this year is ALWAYS WATCH YOUR EXPORTED FILE THE WHOLE WAY THROUGH BEFORE SENDING IT OFF.  I didn't ask any of the filmmakers who were there yet if they did this (because I didn't want to be a snarky *sshole), but I guarantee everyone in that showing will do that in the future.

BTW, both movies I've been to so far, someone asks me if I'm a filmmaker.  I must have that vibe.