Posted on April 16, 2012 in Film Festivals | 1 Comment
Darren Levine, Festival Director & Co-Founder NYC Filmmaker’s Fest., offers some advice to filmmakers on how to submit your project to film festivals.
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Posted on November 22, 2011 in Producing | No Comments
Producers Guild of America East presents: A panel of female producers and film academics including Jane Startz, Amy Robinson, Jane Gaines, and moderator Julie Buck, discuss the history of women in film and recent changes in the production process during a free Amphitheater forum at the 49th New York Film Festival.
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Posted on October 4, 2011 in Film Festivals | No Comments
CJ Perry lays out some of his experiences running through the film festival process.
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Posted on August 29, 2011 in Film Festivals | 4 Comments
Being a filmmaker you are required to deal with lots of rejection. You must have the mindset that for every No you hear you’re one step closer to Yes. Although when you get rejected for things you’ve never applied to, as Shawnee Barton did, hopefully you’ll keep your sense of humor.
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Posted on August 12, 2011 in Film Festivals | No Comments
The New York International Latino Film Festival which begins August 15, 2011 in New York City has launched this clever infographic campaign of Horrible Movie Clichés.
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Posted on July 25, 2011 in IQ Podcasts | No Comments
Filmmaker IQ’s John Hess relates all the juicy details of the 2011 Las Vegas Film Festival including the a winning “Best Independent Film” for Pitch Black – a short film developed right here on Filmmaker IQ.com
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Posted on July 19, 2011 in Film Festivals | 5 Comments
A film created right here on Filmmaker IQ wins big in Sin City.
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Posted on July 18, 2011 in IQ Podcasts | No Comments
Filmmaker IQ’s John Hess raps about first hand experience with the realities festival circuit and we wrap up the articles from the week of July 10-16, 2011
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Posted on July 13, 2011 in Selling Your Film | No Comments
This event was co-sponsored by the Tribeca Film Institute and the Department of Media Studies and Film at The New School.
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Posted on May 31, 2011 in Interviews | 1 Comment
Come and learn the blood-soaked secrets of lifting genre filmmaking from hack-and-slash potboiler to pulp art, with insight from some of the biggest names and smartest craftsmen in their field.
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Posted on November 17, 2010 in Film Festivals | No Comments
With quite literally thousands of film festivals in the United States and around the world – what should you look for when submitting to festivals? Sure everyone’s heard of Sundance, Toronto, and Cannes – but maybe you should be looking at the regional festivals.
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Posted on September 15, 2010 in Film Festivals, Internet, Marketing, Selling Your Film | 3 Comments
From SXSW 2010: Finding an audience has become essential to the filmmaker’s arsenal. Featuring real-world examples, Gary Hustwit (director: Objectified, Helvetica) and Scott Kirsner (CinemaTech) explore the filmmaker’s art of cultivating an audience for their work, spreading the word, showing up for screenings, and buying the DVDs or downloading.
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Posted on August 10, 2010 in Film Festivals | 2 Comments
Workbook Project’s New Breed created this video by Zak Forsman on how to make the festivals work for you by managing your expectations and networking.
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Posted on February 15, 2010 in Film Festivals, Selling Your Film | 3 Comments
Ian Calderon, director of digital initiatives for the Sundance Institute, talks with CinemaTech editor Scott Kirsner about trends in independent film: delivering content to mobile phones and Internet-connected TVs, producing in 3-D, piracy, and the challenge of breaking through the noise — whether you’re submitting a film to Sundance or uploading it to Vimeo or [...]
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Posted on June 25, 2009 in Selling Your Film | No Comments
Jon Reiss chronicles his efforts to self distribute his film “Bomb It” in this informative piece from Filmmaker Magazine. If you ever considered hitting the open road and theatrically self distributing your film make sure and read article.
…My story is not unlike that of most independent filmmakers these days. We bust our butts for [...]
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