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Making the Most of Your Festival Experience Part Two: Attending the Fest

by Basil Tsiokos on February 25, 2011

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 essential …

Victoria Mahoney of Yelling to the Sky; “On The Hushes”

by Victoria Mahoney on January 6, 2011

From Day one, there are elements of production requiring “the hush”; Looks like we got financing, but don’t say anything. Looks like we locked actor, but don’t say anything. Looks like one of the financiers is bouncing checks, but don’t say anything. Looks like the entire Public School system banned …

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Making the Most of Your Film Festival Experience Part One: Preparation

by Basil Tsiokos on January 6, 2011

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 – …

Let’s Talk About Trust: Festival Strategy

by Victoria Mahoney on November 30, 2010

Actor Zoe Kravitz & Director V. Mahoney on set. Photo by Kirsten Johnson

Nutter season is officially upon us.

We’ve entered the stretch of announcement time for top tier festivals in the first quarter of 2011.

I know fourteen narrative filmmakers and five Doc filmmakers, who applied to the January festival.

I know …

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Festival Deadlines as Production Deadlines

by Basil Tsiokos on November 16, 2010

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 …

Cage Match: What are Festivals For?

by Dan Schoenbrun on October 29, 2010

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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 …

Debra Granik on Sundance

by Dan Schoenbrun on October 27, 2010

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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.

Janet Pierson on South By Southwest

by Dan Schoenbrun on October 27, 2010

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Janet Pierson, Senior Programmer, South By Southwest, on the collaborative and creative culture at SXSW.

From the 2010 Independent Filmmaker Conference.

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