Peak City International Film Festival

Kalle, The lack of a response was not personal. My son got Covid19, and with the death of one of our lead judges during festival judging was crushing to many of us. Then this week our family pet was diagnosed with cancer and we had to put her to sleep. To try now to address your justified concerns.

We have always been an in person festival, from judging events, to volunteers working together to pull festival together. All that went away with Covid19. We have had shortcomings in making our festival fully online its first year. Since 2009 we have strived to be in person and create a theatre experience. None the less You are correct a mistake was made. When the video clip announcing "Young and Alone" had won best foreign short film score, you saw we had put the directors name Catherine Prouse instead of your name as the composer and sound designer. We have one other spelling error with a winner, and we are working to open up the edit of the show and correct and provide it to her. We cant rerecord, Tim Bell saying Catherine's name, but we can add yours to the graphic and provide it so you do have it. As far as the awards, the company we have used in the past has had financial problems because of the pandemic. We are hoping they can still at some point fulfil the order as they work through their financial challenges. Thanks for the review as without it we would not have seen your email read of your concerns and try to address them. Your email went to the spam folder. I am told a response there is also coming. Please let us know by email to the festival email address if doing the reedit is a way to help with a solution. If we are able to get awards trophy's we will ask you and the other overseas winners if they would like one shipped recipients expense. Again the festivals apology.

Thank you so much. We are still working on certificates. And official postings. We are in lockdown mode again with Covid19

Hello Debbie,

You are correct, there were a couple of spelling errors that came about during the logging of the data. I have gone back this morning, and it appears yours like the other individual, was caught in an auto spell check program running. Because of the volunteer nature, and the fact that this years Festival could not take place in person we lost all of our sponsor cash. Thus we were left with some things not getting done the way we would like. ON the data sheet the name is spelled correctly, but, none the less you are correct to point this out to us, as it looks like next year we will still be online based on what the outlook is like with Covid19. We will have to make sure we spell check after we produce the videos. This was the first year we streamed an event like this, we have always been an in person live event. And the day of the event we do a cue to cue on the Gaddy awards show, and we have caught things like that in years past. Alas, this year we were not able to do that part. ON behalf of the festival accept our apology for not getting it right. Could I offer to reedit that clip and provide it to you correctly? Also, have not produced the awards certificates yet, and thus we will get it correct their as I actually do the spell check on certificates. Please let me know how our festival can correct this the best possible under the circumstances. Best JD Demers

Thank you so much. We know how hard Indy filmmakers work to producer their films. We wanted to show that we would put effort in as well to give back something more then a press release. Again, thank you for those kind comments.