The Bay International Film Festival is an annual film festival running in Morecambe, North West England. The festival encourages submissions from the Lancashire and Cumbria area and worldwide.
I have volunteered to take up the role of pre-selector, with my main duties being shortlisting film submissions by rating them according to 5 categories: storytelling, performance, cinematography, sound design/music, and editing. The results are then passed to the festival’s selection committee for further assessment.
Through reviewing numerous local and international short film submissions, not only have I been exposed to a larger variety of genres, themes, and styles, but also had a taste of judging films on behalf of a festival instead of submitting to one.
