Wolverhampton Film Festival

What a great festival, well organised, friendly team of people and the venue was spotless, such a pleasure attending.

Great festival. Very welcoming, with a real buzz of up and coming talent. A few areas for improvement.:
The winners could have stills from film on the presentation during awards.
Maybe a festival title card for each film would be handy, to standardise the names.
the festival organiser screened his own shorts films throughout one of the days, which seems to contravene the selection process, and is susceptible to corruption (although they were very good and inspiring, but that is a bit besides the point).
a Q&A session was abandoned after one of the speakers preferred holding it in the bar. This was disappointing as moving to the bar was just an extended networking session, which was scheduled anyway, so we basically missed out on a Q&A, for which the visiting speaker had a small speech prepared, that we never heard (and I didn't get all that long to speak with the visiting speaker, and wouldve again preferred the formal Q&A setting as scheduled).
The café didn't serve food, which was a bit inconvenient, having to run into town for food then back again for screenings.
There was no "best cinematography" category, which seems odd given the other traditional categories, especially as there was a colourist category, which is fairly unusual.
There was also no "best sound design/mixing" which I found also slightly odd, given its importance in filmmaking.
Otherwise, all very good. Looking forward to attending next year.

It was great festival, well organised and such great people to be around! Thank you again for selecting Mnemosyn: Resolution Service as best colourist!

What an amazing festival. It's really hard to believe that this was its first year. The venue, communication and organisation were first class but what really made it was how friendly and welcoming the organisers were. There was a great selection and variety of films screened and lots of opportunities for networking. The Awards event was amazing, professionally hosted and at the same time fun and friendly with the added bonus of a closing party to celebrate a great weekend and dance the night away. It was an honour to be part of the festival with my film 'A Change in Time' and I would definitely recommend other filmmakers to submit next year.

Wolverhampton Film Festival was the nicest surprise on the festival run for my film Squall, as for a first year event it got so much so right. A lovely selection of films with many of the filmmakers in attendance, brilliantly staged awards that were warmly hosted, and a fun closing night party - all taking place at one great venue. Excited to see this event grow and in I congratulate the entire team for putting it together.