Just started watching it.
The first 2 and a half minutes is shots of a school and credits of people we don't know. After the storm, you have images with a Kens Burn effect on them put to the royalty-free track "Lone Harvest". The first five minutes of the film seems kind of pointless. You could have just started the film with the title, written and directed by, and maybe the main cast playing over Sharla running for the first time. It keeps the story moving and the audience's attention.
I think you would benefit greatly with a composer and a good audio person with the right gear. The audio is pretty bad, especially the scene starting at 5:12, and you are constantly using recognizable royalty-free music.
There are plenty of audio people and composers on this forum that are willing to work for cheap/nothing. Also, here are some tutorials/helpful videos/articles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEq5T8fJarM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn1y_6DcsJk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brStDyPNI7w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEq5T8fJarM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0rHak6aJl8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXWnCv_VUos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YZoYwkLsWk
http://filmmakeriq.com/2011/04/22-diy-dslr-camera-rigs/
The film is slow, and the dialogue is often boring and unrealistic. Instead of writing it yourself, you should have hired a professional screenwriter.
Those widescreen bars seem to be cutting off the top of people's heads. Maybe next time you should put tape on your camera's monitor/LCD screen so that you know what will be cut off when you put widescreen bars in during post.
Also, too many still tripod shots. I think the film would have been much better and more exciting with some movement. Not
handheld found footage type (which there was some in there), smooth moving shots. The only one that I really noticed was around 12:48. More shots like that would have been nice. Money isn't an excuse, there are cheap rigs and DIY tutorials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn9htcBCpJM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOVswSEXsYk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nAC6ztIUbQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBxKTZu6F4o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvPHSd4zjZg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ILlNjfqc3E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa9qsy3i2Es
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT72hoYxESI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jUlbgcYTQY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZtlSVgG1h8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Z7vcSaPNk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxlvULNwlpU
And of course you could always do more interesting things with your tripod:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWKYpN8Psbg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW6AWmqa8ZM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohpLsCq12Nw
Also, lots of scenes open with shots of ducks, paintings of tigers, etc. It felt like a TV show.
I'm sorry, I can't keep watching. It's slow and the characters are uninteresting. The audio is bad, the cinematography isn't very good, and 80% of what I've seen could be cut out. I have a feeling your film could be edited down to 20-30 minutes.
I'm sorry, but your film needs some major improvements