Darjeeling's Dream: Apple Insomnia

24 hours, Five People, One Film

What's all this about?

Apple's Insomnia Film Festival is a competition where teams of five student filmmakers have 24 hours to write, plan, cast, shoot, edit and publish a three minute film.

Our team's entry, "Darjeeling's Dream," came out very well and we finished with about 90 minutes left on the clock.

Check it out, and while you're there search for Colorado Film School and see what other aspiring Denver filmmakers are creating.

Voting is Easy

1. log in here: Apple Education Site using any apple ID account (iTunes, .mac, etc) or create one. If you see a form instead of a simple login box go ahead and fill it out -- all you need is name, state and the e-mail used for your apple ID.

2. vote for us here: Darjeeling's Dream on the contest site. Vote by giving the film a rating (may I suggest four stars ;-).

3. Share the love - tell your friends and coworkers to check it out, and vote.

A Note From Apple

Hello Insomniacs!

Here's an update on the progress of the public rating period:

- We started the week by making significant enhancements to the web servers to accommodate the amazing traffic that all of your films have generated. The Insomnia Gallery is now running at 110% and performance should no longer be an issue.

- A few of you have had trouble registering friends and family who are visiting the gallery and want to rate your film. We recognize that requiring an Apple ID and registering separately for voting in the gallery isn't the fastest process. However, it's important to have both of these steps to ensure that ratings are calculated fairly.

- Some of you have asked to change the description or thumbnail of your film. Unfortunately, this information is not something that can be changed.

- We've received a few questions about why the current rating of a film isn't visible. At this time we don't have any plans to make ratings visible because we have found in the past that this encourages a substantial amount of cheating. We are able to detect cheating but it takes extra time to correctly re-adjust a films score. The score of a film is not just a sum of the ratings and is based on multiple factors which allows a film's rank to change quickly. This also means that the most watched film may not necessarily be the winning film. Ratings of more stars carry more weight for a film's overall score.

- Remember that public rating lasts for another 17 days so now is the time to campaign on behalf of your teams film!

Good luck!

-Insomnia Team