My Nomination For Worst Person Ever...

Michael Carr!

He runs the Telluride Indie Film Festival. Only, the festival doesn't actually exist.

Yes, that's right. The festival doesn't exist. At least, it doesn't exist this year.

For those that don't know, applying to a film festival is a lot like applying to college. You pay an application fee, you send your film out, and you wait for a response. You can even hit up an early deadline to better your chances.

So Carr charges 60 bucks for you to apply to his Telluride film festival. You give him the money, and supposedly he goes through a selection process and picks the best films to screen at his festival. Only no one seemed to get in this year.

The festival line-up was posted on the Telluride Indie Fest's website last week, and filmmakers on the withoutabox.com (a filmmaker's website) message boards were confused. None of them got in. NOT ONE. Withoutabox has hundreds of filmmakers applying to these festivals - there's always at least ONE who gets in.

Not only was that strange, but the films screening at this year's festival had NO google hits. My short film has almost 90 hits. Not one film in this year's fest have ANY.

A director named Steve on the withoutabox message boards did the following investigative research:

look at [Telluride selected film] "Amazing Amanda" by Charles C. Radford.

Google this phrase from his bio - "month-long shoot in five African countries" look at this link it turns up! What a coincidence! the 2002 Telluride Indie Fest! http://www.tellurideindiefest.com/indibio2K2.html

Look at the 2002 film "Legalized America." Compare these two bios:

2005: Charles recently received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Boston University where he completed the short film, "What's Wrong With America". His most recent project involved a month-long shoot in five African countries working as a cinematographer.

2002: Michael Ball recently received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Boston University where he completed the short film, "Legalized America". His most recent project involved a month-long shoot in five African countries working as a cinematographer.

Let's do another! This is fun. Google this phrase: "University of Southern California film school, and a two-year graduate of the Sanford Meisner Academy "

What a surprise - 2 matches - 2001 Indiefest and 2005 Indiefest!

2001 Indiefest: Jeff Bemis, "The Book and the Rose." Jeff is a graduate of the University of Southern California film school, and a two-year graduate of the Sanford Meisner Academy in Los Angeles.

2005 Teluride Indiefest: James Austin, "Beyond Zero" James is a graduate of the University of Southern California film school, and a two-year graduate of the Sanford Meisner Academy in Los Angeles. "

So Carr is making up films and reusing old bios to create a fake film festival. I mean, you can tell the films are fake just by their titles: "TODAY IS TOMORROW TODAY", "I SHOULD HAVE CALLED MOM", "LOVE IS A MANY SPLINTERED THING", ect...They just SOUND made up....

Moral of the story. Steer clear of Telluride Indie Fest.

There is nothing more pathetic then filmmakers desperate to get their film seen. Mr. Carr is taking advantage of these poor people by stealing their money and making up fake films for his pretend film festival.

Michael Carr - worst person EVER!

NOTE: Telluride Indie Film Fest isn't the Telluride Film Festival. That one is completely legit and respectable.