>But more than that, I hope you learned a little bit about the
>process of selling the movies you make.

Yeah, for sure.
>
>My wife recently got back from the Cannes Film Festival. Each
>year, she's involved with wrangling and arranging talent to
>speak to the students working in the American Pavilion. If you
>don't know about that, it's where film students from around
>the country apply and compete for a chance to *pay* to come
>the Cannes and *work* at the tent in exchange for festival
>passes and some sort of access to stars and players.

Ah yes...our school participates in that. Actually I've had a few friends go.

>
>For the most part, the students have no clue about the people
>my wife gets to speak to them, and she often has to work to
>convince the students to show up. This year she grabbed a
>friend from Cinetic Media, which drew nothing but blank
>stares. Got a guy who had a documentary in the festival. I
>guess they didn't need to know about getting a doc into
>Cannes. She even had to convince students to come listen to
>Stephen Frears. Of course, they were packed in to see Ben
>Mackenzie from The O.C.

Eff that man, but thanks for sharing...I wish I woulda gone to Cannes. I guess I still can, lol.

>
>My only advice is get out of the books and the classroom.
>Learn the real-world application of this stuff.
>

Basically. I'm done with academic film studies, and I've been shifting my focus over the last few months to business and art rather than grades and classrooms. I think I'm ready.


>And yes, please get back to enjoying movies.

I plan to :)