PS John Mayer tonight? Anyone?

Sorry to be slow to post, guys, but I have been busy at work and hitting the town! Over the last month at IFC I have gotten much more comfortable - I have been working on getting the word out about IFC.com's new contest site: Media Lab Studios (the brainchild of last year's Zeta Psi intern, Chris Reid, Theta Xi). The site is a splash page for sponsored film contests, ranging from a music video contest to a mini-documentary contest. I spent a lot of time calling just about every school in the US that has a film department, asking them to let their students/alumni know about the site; in an effort to get more submissions to the documentary film contest, I got involved with the online independent documentary film artist community (theres more of them than you'd think...). I really got to see what the weight of a brand like IFC can do. Several of these blogs and websites were very willing to help me disseminate the info among avid documentarians. Hopefully we will be seeing lots of very strong submissions!

I was also charged with the ever-entertaining job of pre-screening the entries (the final judging will be done by a panel of industry experts). New videos come in every day - some promising, some funny, some downright bizarre. It's IFC's policy not to censor anything, so these aren't your average Youtube videos...

Currently I am working on putting together a proposal for a long-term project that I can do for the rest of my time here. Hopefully I will be able to leave a lasting impression on IFC, and affect it positively.