I volunteered on Saturday, the first of the two day festival, from 10am-4pm.
I arrived there for 9am because there were some last minute set up needed such as computers, tables for display, audience chairs re-aligned and brochures laid out around the venue.
Even though I was put down for the position of usher/technical crew, I was very happy with my role which was to simply press play/pause for the film playlist in one of the screening rooms.
I enjoyed it because I got watch all the films, which were all very different and really good. There were some great ideas that were portrayed very well and if an audience member had a question about the time of a film starting or what I thought of a previous screening, I could answer the question with ease.
It was also very nice to work with the managers, the one in charge of me was Trent, and he was very energetic throughout the day while doing Q&A with some of the directors and artists which was good to have front row seats to watch.
Most of the films screened were indie films and made on a low-budget but they still had good quality production.
One of my favourite screenings that I got to watch while working was 'Above Water', by Jeff Norton. I found the storytelling beautiful, the story is about a banker who lost his finances and wishes to end his life and meets a busker who plays the guitar. These souls would never have met, they learn a lot from each other, the film changes from black and white to colour towards the end, this experimental use of storytelling is what I loved about it and how it was used to express the feelings of the characters towards the end.
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