Chris Gore's ultimate film festival survival guide : the essential companion …

The guerrilla guide to marketing and selling an indie film. Some people are just there for the loot bags. But most of the people at a film festival are trying to market and sell an independent film. Don’t be just one of the horde. Use Chris Gore’s Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide to help your indie film stand out! Entertainment Weekly loves Gore’s book, calling it a “treatise on sc…

The Pusan International Film Festival, South Korean cinema, and globalization

This volume provides a political and cultural exploration of the Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea since its inception in 1996. By paying attention to the organizers use of an Asian regionalization strategy, the author reveals how the festival staked out a unique position within a changing global landscape.

Documentary film festivals : Vol. 1. Methods, history, politics

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the global landscape of documentary film festivals. Contributors from across the globe offer in-depth analysis of both internationally renowned and more alternative festivals, including Hot Docs (Canada), Nyon (Switcherland), Yamagata (Japan), DocChina, Full Frame (US), Belgrade (former Yugoslavia), Vikalp (India), and DocsBarcelona (Catalo…

The film festival reader

What is the importance of film festivals in the context of film culture at large? What logic reigns within the film festival galaxy? Are film festivals tools of power and prestige that make or break the fate of a film? Or do they effectively seal diverse and unique cinema from the wider public whilst simultaneously professing to celebrate it? What, if anything, is wrong with the concept of 'fes…

Film festival secrets : a handbook for independent filmmakers. Updated Second…

Many filmmakers struggle to find a place on the festival circuit because they don't have the right foundation for their submissions strategy. They think that all film festivals are basically the same. (Wrong.) They rush post-production to meet festival deadlines and consider test screenings to be optional. (Nope.) They think that sending out form emails to hundreds of festivals to ask for fee w…

Film Festival Submitters Handbook 2024

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9798874315153

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60 p. ; 29 cm.

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So you want to start a film festival : conversations with top festival creators

Film festivals have sprouted up in communities large and small around the globe. What compelled the founders of some of North America's most distinguished festivals to create their events? What were their goals and expectations? Their successes and failures? Explore the genesis stories of 16 film festivals - hear the honest tales of heartache and passion - and discover the lasting impact of the…

Documentary film festivals : Vol. 2,. Changes, challenges, professional persp…

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the global landscape of documentary film festivals, looking at its contemporary and future challenges. Contributors from across the globe reflect on how documentary has positioned itself within both internationally renowned and more alternative festivals, including IDFA (Netherlands), Cannes IFF (France), Sheffield Doc/Fest (UK), Dockanema …

Film festivals : culture, people, and power on the global screen

Movies, stars, auteurs, and critics come together in film festivals as quintessential constellations of art, business, and glamour. Yet, how well do we understand the forces and meanings that these events embody? This work offers an overview of the history, people, films, and functions of the festival world.

International film festivals : contemporary cultures and history beyond Venic…

More than 5,000 film festivals take place globally and many of these have only been established in the last two decades. International Film Festivals collects the leading scholarship on this increasingly prominent phenomenon from both historical and contemporary perspectives, using diverse methods including archival research, interviews and surveys and drawing widely from fields like sociology,…

Film festivals and the Middle East

The Middle East in the title of this book is a diverse, varied, multiple and contested area. It is not an area that can be regarded as one or united . And indeed, we acknowledge that in our coverage we somewhat stretch the concept.

Behind the screens : programmers reveal how film festivals really work

Have you ever wondered...What's the deal with film festival programmers? What do they really think about your film? How do they make their decisions? And how can you improve your own film's odds of being picked? Why your film gets picked depends on a complex set of reasons, And it comes down to a single fact: film festivals, and programmers, aren't necessarily what you think! Jon Gann, founder …

Activist film festivals : towards a political subject

Film festivals are an ever-growing part of the film industry, but most considerations of them focus almost entirely on their role in the business of filmmaking. This book breaks new ground by bringing scholars from a range of disciplines together with industry professionals to explore the concept of festivals as spaces through an activist lens, as spaces where the sociopolitical identities of c…

Film festivals : from European geopolitics to global cinephilia

The first comprehensive study of film festivals that marks key historical moments and offers surprising insights into the workings of a highly influentiual cultural network

The complete filmmaker's guide to film festivals : your all access pass to la…

The first step-by-step "How To" guide to film festivals, offering filmmakers a bird's eye view of what it takes to have a successful festival experience. Practical, hands-on information with examples and exercises to help the filmmaker include: Targeting the right festivals; Creating a press kit; Promoting and branding your film; Promoting and branding yourself; Filling out entry forms; Creatin…

The festival circuit

Du site de l'éd.: The new annual series of Film Festival Yearbooks seeks to redress a gap in current scholarship, theorising the nature and functioning of film festivals and the festival circuit and providing case studies and resources to facilitate further research into this important and burgeoning field. The first volume, The Festival Circuit, features articles related to the global prolife…

Sustainable projections : concepts in film festival management

Digging deeply into the precarious, intuitive business of film festival organization, Fischer pours this often-chaotic business into an adapted framework of the Open Systems Theory, so that it becomes possible to think about festivals in more pragmatic terms.

Film Festivals and Imagined Communities

Du site de l'éd.: The second volume in the Film Festival Yearbook series, brings together essays about festivals that use international cinema to mediate the creation of transnational "imagined communities.

Film festivals : history, theory, method, practice

This text offers a systematic and authoritative introduction to the subject of film festivals. Individual essays are organized into coherent sections on the history, theory, method, and practice of film festival studies. Providing students with a solid overview of the study of film festivals; it begins with the emergence of the major 'A' list film festivals in Europe, before going on to discuss…

Film festivals and activism

Featuring essays by and interviews with festival programmers, filmmakers, activists, and film scholars, "Film Festivals and Activism" explores the role of film festivals in social justice movements and campaigns.