MayDay Film Festival

15/05/2020

Today was suppose to be our opening night for this years film festival. It’s disappointing and very hard to imagine that we can’t hold the actual festival in May, or even one at all this year. I woke up this morning to a harsh reality that I don’t have to run around and pick everything up, setup everything at showplace, prepare all the movies, and run around crazy to get the festival going by 6pm. It’s a lot of work and not always easy. Even after all the stress of getting the festival ready, I miss it. I hate that today this is not what I am doing. I enjoy doing it for everyone. It felt it was one thing I did for the city and and everyone that is part of the festival.

The circumstances are just what they are. I won’t lie, it has drained the motivation out of me. I never expected the festival to ever go just online. It’s been a rough battle to get the online version going. With that, if we want things to get back to normal, we have to do things we might not want for our safety and others, like social distancing and wearing a mask. It’s not hard to just do these small things so we can get back to a normal life. We are missing out on a lot of other activities and events right now. This is just one out of thousands. I hope everyone is staying safe. The online festival is being worked on and hopefully have news soon on when it will go live.

11/05/2020

I hope everyone is doing well and staying safe out there. We wanted to address some questions about the festival. We have had a lot of good feedback about moving to an online version for time being. We know this is not exactly what we wanted to do, because we have always been about showing movies on the big screen. Afterall, it is what makes movies special.

We recently sent out e-mails to all filmmakers in this years festival. So if you haven't heard from us, search us in your email, we should be there with the e-mail you put on the film freeway site. If not, feel free to messages us on here. We will do the best to get back with you soon.

The festival will be online soon. We don't have a date exactly. We have the site built and ready for uploading movies. Now this takes time as we are still gathering up movies and intros for everyone. We want this to be 100% right, with no hiccups. So we are taking that extra time to getting this right. The site is what I would say is very "Netflix" like as you just pick your block or movie. Short films will be bunched together in alphabetical order and about 2 hours or less per block. Features will be on their own. This might change, but that is the current format we are working with.

Now the date I mentioned is undetermined. I am doing my best to get it going by working on putting films together on my weekends while still managing another business during the weekdays. I would like to have a goal of getting it going by the end of the month and running the festival online for 2 weeks. This site is new to me, but I am figuring it out as best as possible in the short time I have had with it.

Now price for tickets will be $10 for all the movies in the online version. We will have a secure checkout process up and running once site goes live. This will be good for 2 weeks, so you'll have time to go through all the movies there. This might be our only way to show films and get revenue from tickets as we are not getting that from the live event. The live event still is up in the air though. We have been in contact with Showplace. We will do our best to have an event. If not, we will be back for next year for sure.

We are working on some gear for the festival. We will have 2-3 shirts going live soon that can be bought and shipped to you. I saw part of the design on one and I can tell you it's going to be a really nice shirt. It is not the same one as last year.

Again, this is not how we wanted our festival to end up. I am glad that we can at least give you something for now. It's been hard on us, because this is not the vision we ever had for MayDay Film Festival. We are thankful for the support and will let you know soon when the festival will go live.

Thanks,

MayDay Film Festival Team

30/04/2020

We have our online format setup! We are now working on filling in programming. We will be going live May 15th. The online festival will run until May 31st. Here is a little preview picture of the site. It will be altered a bit once we go live.

12/04/2020

Major Annoucement!

We want to apologize for a lot of delays in the selection announcement. We had to push back a lot of deadlines due to Coronavirus. We were really unsure what was going to happen with the actual event. It has global affected everyone. We wanted to make sure to follow a lot of social distancing and guidelines in place. Showplace is currently showdown due to the state order, so we will not be holding the event in May. With that we are going to announce two things.

1. We are going ONLINE! So starting in May we will be hosting an online film festival. We are still unsure of the exact date we will start, but we want to run the festival over a span of 2 weeks. With that, we will be reaching out to ALL filmmakers that have submitted to the festival this year. Not all movies are required to have the movie in the online version of the festival. We will allow an opt-out option for anyone that submitted their film. We do encourage all filmmakers to allow their movies to be online for this short period of time in the festival. There will be an Online Award that is separate from the actual event awards for anyone that participates.

2. WE STILL WANT TO HOLD AN ACTUAL EVENT FOR 2020! We are looking at holding the event in either late June or early July. We would show majority of the movies, but not all movies will be able to make the theater cut. This is why we encourage the films to be allowed for the online version. Of course, we are unsure if holding an actual event is even possible but we will stay optimistic.

3. We will be making a 2020 event t-shirt that will be ordered online and shipped out once completed. We will start taking pre-orders soon on our website. We will be offering a baseball tee as well as a second option. We will have the shirts made locally to Evansville! We are working on a few other items as well to sell as part of our MayDay merch line.

Please reach out to us if you have anymore questions. We will be getting with all filmmakers shortly. We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy.

Thanks,
MayDay Film Festival

28/03/2020

We are pushing the announcement of films back a week. We will likely post wave 1 of accepted films this upcoming week, hopefully by next weekend we have a full acceptance list.

We are also still keeping in contact with Showplace Cinemas about the event. We are still hopeful that the event will be held at our original dates. We will let everyone know if anything changes. Thanks, MayDay Film Festival Team.

18/03/2020

Update from Showplace who host MayDay. We will of course give any updates on the festival upon getting it. Hopefully we can continue with the original dates.

https://www.facebook.com/95647967626/posts/10159599308992627?d=n&sfns=mo

12/03/2020

Just making a post that currently we have plans to stick with the festival dates as we are 2 months away. We are keeping watch like everyone. We will always put safety first for our events. Any questions, please message us.

03/03/2020

Yes, it’s pug. Now I got your attention, March 2nd is last day for regular submissions.

Get your films IN!

https://filmfreeway.com/MayDayFilmFestival

01/03/2020

Tomorrow is the LAST day for Regular Submissions. We will take movies until March 23rd for late submissions, but fees are more! So get your movie in NOW! Let’s see what you have.

https://filmfreeway.com/MayDayFilmFestival

21/02/2020

We are getting close to the end of the regular submission deadline. We have a lot of great films so far, but always looking for more amazing movies.

https://filmfreeway.com/MayDayFilmFestival

Use coupon code fearless50 to save 50% off submissions!

18/02/2020

The Fearless Photog really wants to see your film, so submit today! We are less than 2 weeks away for regular submission period. Use code fearless50 to save 50% off submission fees!

https://filmfreeway.com/MayDayFilmFestival

17/02/2020

There are 2 weeks left for regular submissions! I am once again asking for your film. Please submit your film on Film Freeway.

https://filmfreeway.com/MayDayFilmFestival

If you know any filmmakers with movies that would love to submit, please share this. We got a lot of amazing films but we always want more!

PS- We will he updating our website soon and starting to get more information out about the festival shortly.

14/02/2020

Happy Valentines Day

12/02/2020

If you love watching movie, we are looking for some judges for this years festival! We have a lot of amazing films this year.

You can message us here if interested, thanks.

10/02/2020

Congratulations to Parasite for being the first International film to win Best Picture at the Oscars. It’s important to give all films a chance. Definitely a huge change for the industry.

Also all the winners and nominees for this years Academy Awards.

08/01/2020

Thanks to Melissa Awesome for taking time to blog about us.

https://103gbfrocks.com/evansville-film-festival-returns-for-12th-year/?fbclid=IwAR2XH6nc83VRT-KsgYO6qIHT45fRs733d79KLD3xW3CHyBCPmNZYWOJv95w

Evansville's MayDay Film Festival is set to return for it's 12th year in a row!

07/01/2020

For our 2020 festival we are back at Showplace Cinemas South! We will holding our event on May 15-16th.

We are still taking regular submissions up to March 2nd! So you got time to submit over on Film Freeway. Link will be provided below!

Please share this post, as we are looking for a major event for this year. We want to bring a lot of amazing films to Evansville.

https://filmfreeway.com/MayDayFilmFestival

01/01/2020

Happy New Year 2020!