Media Showcase or Shameless Promotion?

Get ready for a week long rant. Normally I wouldn't get upset at a media festival because I know that artistic expression is seen differently through certain peoples eyes. But this media festival is the worst artistic festival I have ever been too. I have never seen so many un-talented videos in my life. How can someone that is fucking snowshoeing to copyrighted music win a fucking prize?

Yes I am going to investigate this faux paw. What a joke. First of all, for those that read my blog on a ongoing basis, which I can gladly say is about 250 people per day and growing, I will be starting my investigation on Monday and continue until Thursday. I will be blogging and making Youtube videos. I will be calling certain people responsible for the festival like the marketing team at Blue Mountain, and I will be trying to get a hold of the President of VW.

I need some answers. I'm sure some of you are wondering why I'm so disturbed. Its not because I didn't win anything, I don't care about that. Its because this is the second year that this festival has been running and instead of it getting better, it got worse. And that is because the people running the festival wouldn't know talent if it punch them in the friggin head.

I entered the festival last year with a film that I made the day before the deadline was due. Why did I leave it to the last minute? Because the stupid idiots don't advertise these events, and nobody talks about them. I happen to find out the first year just by chance. And for the record, there were only 8 films entered, and I didn't win yet again, which I was ok with, seeing as I had only made the video the day before and their was no plot or story line.

So then this year came along and I went to the website a month before the festival should start. I was lucky and the festival started later in the year then last year. Sweet! I'll take my time and write something spectacular. Which I did. Then I entered it. That's when my disturbia started.

There were no guide lines to what kind of content was going to be allowed in the festival, other than no coarse language or explicit behaviour. So I abided by those rules and created "Interventions of a Third Kind". ( This video is based on a true story, and you can view it at the bottom of this post. )

This year at the festival they were only going to view the top 5 films. Which I was certain my video was in the top 5, I mean it is excellent. But anyway, we all went to the festival for the top 5 screening which started at 8pm on Friday night and ended at 10:30pm. It was freezing cold. Like minus 20 with the wind shield factor. And there was maybe 100-150 people there ( probably because of the cold weather ). So we waited and waited and waited. Then the screenings started. And the first four films played. (They played two videos, then a band came on and then they played two more videos. ) My video had yet to play. So I was expecting it to come on next.... And guess what?

They only played four videos. They were suppose to play 5. What happen? And the four videos that they did play, ( No offence to the people that made them ) but the videos were people snow boarding and snow shoeing and 3 out of 4 of them had copyrighted music in them. That's a big no no. And how fucking boring it was watching these stupid videos that took absolutely no artistic talent to make. Every time one of these boring videos came on more and more people left the outdoor facility. At least my video would have made people stay because there was some content in it to pay attention to.

The video that won first place, which was done well, was entered in the festival last year. Yeah, the exact same video. So that would mean that only 5 videos were entered this year? Which would mean that number had come down from 8 videos last year to 5 videos this year? Which would mean that other artists like my self were not willing to put their hard work in a bogus festival that rewarded people for having no artistic ability? Pretty fucked up eh?

It is also probably good to mention that the bands that played were excellent, and every band said the word "fuck" or "fucking cold" at least once. And every one at the festival was old enough to deal with the content that was in my video.

Yesterday I was mad and upset. Now I'm ready to go out and get some answers. Get ready because here is who I will be contacting this week:

1. Blue Mountain marketing team
2. The president of VW
3. The president of Telus
4. Alcohol/Drug Abuse Hotline1-800-662-HELP

I want to leave you with this paragraph from the festival web page, they talk about why
Jozo Weider started this festival ( The guy that started Blue Mountain ).

"The Multimedia Showcase at Blue Mountain Resort is an innovative forum to encourage artistic expression through multiple forms. Inspired by the creative interests of Blue Mountain Resort's founder Jozo Weider, an avid supporter of the arts, the event hosts an array of artists showcasing exhibits that unite graphic design, film/video, photography, and street media. Since 2003, Blue Mountain Resort has hosted the Showcase, drawing increasing interest from artists and multimedia enthusiasts across Ontario." (Note: The last line is pure Bullshit )

And as funny as that is I just realized that the festival started in 2003. I only found out about it two years ago. Why don't you advertise this more? Never forget that artists made the world we live in. Everything we have is because of artists. Stop rewarding people with no artistic talent, or the festival will fail, just like it is right now. Give your heads a shake, and wake up.



Until next time... Peace
Cam



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