I finally found the (currently incomplete) list of selected films for Rhode Island (it was there on the home page of the web site – how I missed it, I don’t know!).
House of Donn wasn’t listed 
Still, they said they were hoping to show 250 or so films, and have only listed 178 at the moment, so there’s still a chance.
I’ve registed HoD with a few more film festivals in the last day or two; Austin, Chicago and the Signals Short Film Fest in Colchester. I’ll also be sending it to the TCM Classic Shorts contest. So that’ll be seven festivals/comps currently considering it. I’m sure I should be casting my net a little wider, but it isn’t cheap this festival business and budgets have always been a little tight funding everything out of my own pocket.
On the writing front, I’ve spent the past few days working a rewrite of a short film another local filmmaker, Kadir, has written. It’s quite interesting, about a Kurdish Iraqi immigrant and the prejudices he faces living in the UK.
Rewriting is a strange thing, I’m discovering. It’s hard to know how to do it best. Do you start from scratch and just write again with a draft outline of the original? Or do you just tweak what’s already been rewitten? I guess, it’s probably both and neither.
Any tips on rewriting would be gratefully received!
I tried my trusted Dramatica-for-shorts method to try to get some idea of structure possibilities, but I’ve yet to marry it to what Kadir has already done. On the surface it looks like there might be some areas to expand the script a little to add some balance to it.
Just gotta keep my head down and keep plugging away, I guess.