ok, so here’s exactly what happened with the pilot for the progenies. (told through lisa simpson reaction pictures and gifs.
so i had the idea to make a descendants web series, we filmed the pilot and what not yall already know this. we went ahead and filmed the pilot ahead of time so we could enter it an a festival called campus moviefest. campus movie fest is a film festival specifically for college students. they give you one week to make a five minute movie. we filmed the pilot, and submitted as a short film.
i week later we get an email about our movie premiere, they told us our film was going to be screened along with the others. then they asked me, the captain of the team, to submit an acceptance speech. they also asked us to send in behind the scenes footages. we were so excited. we promoted the event to get our people to tune in.
so they day comes. the campus moviefest october premiere. more than half the people watching were people that i, and the cast and crew of the progenies asked to come and watch. we were extremely excited. clips of our film and behind the scenes were in the beganning. they kept asking us when our film was being shown and we told them they had to be patient and watch the whole show and to respect the other filmmakers.
so, here’s where it starts to get messy. we find out that disney is one of the sponsors for the event. our film is a fan film based on disney’s descendants. so me and a few others thought it was a bit strange. mind you our film still wasn’t show yet. but we stayed positive about it.
the show end, and our pilot wasn’t played at all. i felt so embarrassed that i had all those people in there waiting for nothing, as they only came for us.
now it gets chaotic. before i know it, our people, and when i say that i mean my followers, and the friends and family of the cast and crew, STARTED GOING OFF IN THE CHAT. campus moviefest responded because they saw how angry everyone was, telling them the progenies was gonna be posted right after the premiere was over. but they didn’t change anything. they were cussin out campus movie fest so bad they deleted a bunch of comments and disabled the chat and you can’t even go back and read it.
one of the cast members calls me cause she’s just as angry and confused as i am, so we decided to get on instagram live to tell everyone what happened and that we were sorry and yada yada and we were going off about how they didn’t show any filmed that featured black people and people of darker complexions. remember how i said disney was the sponsor, we felt like that had a lot to do with why it wasn’t screened. their are numerous projects of people using disney characters in distasteful ways and our was nothing like that. we just made it a bit more realistic and mature. we were pissed. then campus moviefest came into the live!!!!
so we started going off on them about the lack of diversity of the show and how we promoted the show and everything and how they told us they were gonna show our film and they didn’t. and they were just giving sorry replies about it. they then told me they were gonna talk to me about what happened tomorrow. we told them we want a public apology for embarrassing us.
also, our pilot got more views than their show.
so, today was going ok, we were getting alot of love and support from the public about our pilot and the views are still going up on the pilot. then campus moviefest gives me this pitiful email about calling them so they can walk me through the judging process and whatever. like no, we don’t want that. yall are only scared cause yall got called out for what you did. not only did you lie to us, you didn’t have any darker skin people in the program. we don’t want a walk through process, we want a public apology from both you and disney.
i swear people get money from that scammin mouse and don’t know how to act.
