Blog posts at The VIFF website are hard to come by
Every year I attend the Vancouver Film Festival for the full two weeks and try to see as many small movies that may not get distribution anywhere else. I’ve seen incredible movies and other than mentioning them to friends, I never wrote reviews or blogged about them. I thougth that I would do a bit more this year and decided to write something about each film. I was really pleased to see that the VIFF website has added blogs to their site, but instead of having a blog for the whole site, each post has a blog. It’s a bit confusing and very hard to find information. Essentially what one has to do, is go through the site, pick a movie, click on the details, then click on the “Film Blog”. I’ve checked a dozen movies or so and have yet to find a single blog post. Surely there must be a better way.
The Toronto Film Festival which ended a few weeks ago, has a much more useful website. The link to the blogs is not part of the main navigation bar, but it was easy enough to find on the home page. Once at the right spot it was explained that the blogs consist of 7 blogs. I’m not sure why these simply aren’t categories, but at least it’s easy enough to go through the entries and read about the many films.
In the end I’ve decided to use Facebook to write my comments. I’m not sure many people will read them, but until the VIFF re-designs their website, I think that’s the best I can do.