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Sundance Programmer Mike Plante On Going Places with Short Films

by Mike Plante on February 25, 2013

The notion that making a short film is just practice for a feature has never made sense to me. Every time you write a story or dialogue, work with actors and crew, or edit image and sound, you are making important artistic decisions. To think that the end product would …

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Members Only- Master Class on How to Avoid the Big Self Distribution Mistakes from IFW Conference 2012

by Justin Ferrato on February 21, 2013

More and more filmmakers and producers are choosing to circumvent the traditional distribution system for a more dynamic, economical, and creative approach to getting their films seen. Call it Direct-to-Fan, Creative Distribution, D.I.Y. or Self-Release — what matters most is that before you head down this road, you better watch …

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Producer Kim Jackson on preparing for a festival like Sundance

by Kim Jackson on February 20, 2013

I’ll be honest with you.  It wasn’t until a week ago that I could see straight.

When I stumbled off of the red eye at JFK and headed to my apartment in Manhattan after attending The 29th Annual Sundance Film Festival, all I could do was run to my …

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Shaka King at Sundance

by Shaka King on February 18, 2013

My name is Shaka King and my film Newlyweeds premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, January 18th. I intended to blog about the experience throughout but didn’t have the energy. The month and a half leading up had been a dead sprint to finish, promote and hopefully sell the film …

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Producer Robert Profusek on Building Buzz at Slamdance

by Robert Profusek on February 15, 2013

I had an amazing opportunity to return to Park City this year with my film WITHOUT SHEPHERDS. I was more than excited as not only was I going public with the first documentary film I had produced, but I was playing Slamdance for the first time in my career.

Without …

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Indie film distribution in a digital world: A master class w/Dylan Marcetti & Josh Braun

by Justin Ferrato on February 14, 2013

Short interviews with the heads of some of the most exciting new companies such as Dylan Marchetti (Variance Films) and Josh Braun (Submarine Entertainment) working in independent film & media today. Hear about their work, and the ways they are working to make change for independent media makers. The panel …

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Filmmaker David Lowery on “Ain’t Them Body Saints”, Sundance 2013 & the Power of Persistence

by David Lowery on February 14, 2013

In the days and weeks leading up to our film’s premiere at Sundance, I pulled from the shelf my dog-eared copy of Steven Soderbergh’s sex lies and videotape diary, which I’d purchased from a second-hand bookstore my sophomore year in high school and devoured (along with the screenplay included therein) before …

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Writing the short film: Making it something special

by Kat Candler on February 12, 2013

 

Kat Candler is writer-director based in Austin Texas, Kat’s award winning films have screened at Sundance, the Los Angeles Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, SXSW, Slamdance.

IFP so sweetly asked me to do a few write-ups on “Making Short Films”. I’m certainly not the expert by any …

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