Dear Filmmakers:
My most recent posts have focused on your film’s festival premiere. This time around, let’s move past your first festival and consider how to deal with the festival circuit beyond.
As mentioned previously, often by being included in that first festival, your film will be noticed by other festivals, leading …
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Fresh off their successful Sundance premiere and sale, the creators of Martha Marcy May Marlene, as well as the Cannes and Berlin festival favorite Afterschool, reveal their strategy for collaboration. Find out why their support of each other’s projects is so effective, and allows them the creative freedom …
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Director Cameron Yates and documentary subject Jeanette Maier during the Q&A for The Canal Street Madame at its SXSW Premiere, 2010
Dear Filmmakers:
This post wraps up my thoughts on how you can maximize your film’s festival premiere for the good of your film, and for your career. Part one …
Robert Redford and Bill Gates at the Sundance Director's Brunch, 2010 Sundance Film Festival
Dear Filmmakers:
This is the second of three posts addressing what you can and should do to make the most of your film festival premiere for your film and for your career. My last post covered …
Dear Filmmakers:
Previous posts have covered submitting to film festivals, offering advice on what (not) to do as you go through the process of navigating submission forms, promotional materials, and handling rejection or acceptance. This post (and the next) moves beyond the submission phase to focus on the next step – …
Dear Filmmakers:
In my first blog post for IFP, I briefly addressed the issue of using a specific festival’s deadline as your own film’s production deadline. In this post, I’m going to expand a bit on this topic.
You have to plan out your production schedule anyway, so what’s the problem with …
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Join programmers and directors of top domestic and international festivals for a debate on their roles in the film world. Who does a festival serve – the local audience, the filmmakers or the industry – and how can festivals juggle and prioritize their duties to each.
Moderator:
Christian Gaines, Withoutabox
Panelists:
Heather Croall, Sheffield …
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Debra Granik (Writer/Director, Winter’s Bone) discusses some of the stresses that filmmakers deal with when attending the Sundance Film Festival.
From the 2010 Independent Filmmaker Conference.