“From Boots to Broadway: How Army Veteran Ryan Smith Transformed His Life Into a Captivating Musical Journey”
Ashley
Gotcha. Okay. So, once you had your film finished, um, what were the next steps on that? Did you guys do the festival circuit? And I’m kind of just curious, are there specific festivals for musicals? It doesn’t seem like there’s enough musicals that, that there would be. Um, but maybe you can just speak to that. How was it? How was your reception of a zombie musical at these festivals?
Ryan Smith
I did actually find that that was actually a large challenge because there’s not a lot of festivals out there that focus on music or focus on musicals. And so, it’s kind of a fish out of water. We ended up having to focus more or less on just horror and hoping that it had enough of a jive that it worked in those areas. I will say for people who are making their own films, if you’re like me or a writer producer and you’re wanting to get it out there, when we did our initial push, I love our premiere. Our premiere went really well. We put it at the Alamo. We sold out every showing for 10 shows. But because we made it public, we didn’t four-wall it. It unfortunately stole our premiere from our festival runs. And so for people who are considering doing this, that’s something to think about because we specifically did not get into South, not Southwest, we didn’t get into Fantastic Fest because they said it had already had its initial premiere and it had been seen by too many people. So, it’s something to consider whenever you’re doing that. If you’re going to have a local premiere for people, you’re better off four-walling it and saving those large, our North American premiere or worldwide premiere for a larger audience. And I would also say pitch to all the biggest festivals first and save the little ones for after you get all your responses to those because otherwise you’re going to end up having a small festival, take your big premieres and you’re going to lose those opportunities.
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