Film Festival Hacks: How to Submit to Festivals Like a Pro
Original price was: $84.99.$14.99Current price is: $14.99.
What you’ll learn
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Create a festival strategy by selecting appropriate festivals for their films.
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Submit to Film Festivals like a Pro
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Career Building and Networking
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How to Educate Yourself for FREE at Film Festivals
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Audience Building Techniques
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Discover What Distributors Want and How to Find Them
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Understand the technical requirements film festivals are looking for
Before you read what I have to say, see what our other students are saying about our course:
As Festival Producer with the Edmonton International Film Festival (EIFF) in Canada for nearly 15 years, I have experienced a whole lotta misinformation about what film festivals DO and I completely support the sharing of ACCURATE information in a non-biased way. To be honest, I was a bit skeptical about this course, titled FILM FESTIVAL HACKS. From the first segment, I was hooked.
Chris and Alex have created a fascinating journey that is relevant to both filmMAKERS and festival organizers. Chris’s experience behind-the-scenes at numerous festivals combined with Alex’s experiences attending festivals makes for a well-rounded and completely candid course that is less ‘instruction’ and more In the Actor’s Studio. A few chapters into it, I thought — (insert gratuitous coarse language here) EVERYONE needs to certify themselves as FILM FESTIVAL HACKS!
And the course reminded me that we (at EIFF) aren’t all alone on an island, hoping that what we do will resonate with filmMAKERS and that our annual event has VALUE for everyone — audiences included!. – Kerrie Long
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Can’t get your indie film into film festivals? Are you tired of spending TONS OF CASH, you don’t have, on submission fees? Want to get the inside secrets to give your film the best chance on being accepted to film festivals?
- Don’t have the money continue submitting to film festivals?
- Do you want to submit to film festivals for cheap or FREE?
- Do you want to learn how I got my films accepted into almost 600 international film festivals without paying submission fees?
- Do you want to Enroll NOW and get into the minds of film festival programmers? Let’s get started?
They DON’T teach you this in Film School!
Film Festival Hacks is a course pulls back the curtain on the film festival business (and it is a business). THIS IS A MUST FOR ALL FILMMAKERS!
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Save TIME and MONEY by learning what film festivals are looking for and how to position your short or feature film to have a fighting chance of being accepted.
This is a LIVING COURSE, we will be adding to it and updating it often!
You will be taught from both sides of “the badge.” Alex Ferrari is an award winning filmmaker with almost 600 international film festivals under his belt. He’ll show you tricks and techniques on how he got his features and short films accepted with paying little or NO MONEY!
Here’s what legendary film critic Roger Ebert (which he met at a film festival) had to say about Alex’s short film:
“BROKEN is essentially a demonstration of the mastery of horror imagery and techniques…effective and professional.” – Roger Ebert (Chicago SunTimes)
On the “other side of the badge” is Chris Holland, author of Film Festival Secrets: A Handbook for Independent Filmmakers and festival organizer who has been on staff at two Academy-Accredited (Oscar-qualifying) film festivals.
Chris has also worked closely with the staff of more than 200 festivals worldwide, including Sundance, Slamdance, AFI Fest, SXSW, and many more. Over the last decade he has consulted on festival strategy with hundreds of filmmakers just like you and helped them take control of their run on the festival circuit.
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“Great tips from both sides of the industry – movie producer with plenty of festival experience, and a festival guru that knows the process inside out. this will save you lots of head scratching and give you the confidence and the knowledge you need to start submitting your movie to festivals.” – Ioannis Tsiokos
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Here’s a bit about Film Festival Hacks:
Included in this game changing course: more than 4 hours (and growing) of insider secrets and strategies for getting your film into film festivals (over 35 videos). There has never been an online seminar like this one — it’s the Ultimate Film Festival Course.
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FILM FESTIVAL HACKS COVERS:
Why Submit to Film Festivals Today
- Audience Building
- Distribution for Your Film
- Career Building and Networking
- Travel the World
- Educate Yourself for FREE
- Prize Money and Awards
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The Hidden Benefits of Film Festivals
- What are Your Goals?
- This is a Business, and the Film Festival is Your Customer
- How to Do Research
- How to Submit to Film Festivals for Cheap or FREE
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Understanding the “Mystery” of How Film Festivals Program their Fests
- The Screening Process
- Common Fears and Myths
- Film Festivals Have an Audience to Serve
- The #1 Predictor of Film Festival Success
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How to Leverage a Film Festival Screening to Help Sell Your Film
- Audience Building Techniques
- Networking with Other Film Festival Programmers
- Discover What Distributors Want and How to Find Them
- What are Your Chance of Getting a Traditional Distribution Deal?
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Technical Requirements for Film Festival
- What’s a DCP?
- Quicktime Compression
- HDCam vs HD-SR
- DVD and BluRay
- Warnings and Security
and much more!
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Important information before you enroll:
- In case you find the course useless, don’t forget you are covered by a 30 day money back guarantee, full refund, no questions asked!
- Once enrolled, you have unlimited, lifetime access to the course!
- You will have instant and free access to any updates I’ll add to the course.
- You’ll get access to the course discussion forum, where you can ask us questions and compare notes with your fellow students.
- We will give you our full support regarding any issues or suggestions related to the course
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Enroll NOW and learn the secrets of getting your indie film into film festival around the world! Let’s get started!
Who this course is for:
- Filmmakers who anticpate making a movie and showing it to audiences on the film festival circuit will get the most value from this course.
- Any filmmaker planning to submit to film festivals
- Film Students
- Filmmaking Professionals
12 reviews for Film Festival Hacks: How to Submit to Festivals Like a Pro
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Original price was: $84.99.$14.99Current price is: $14.99.
Ioannis Tsiokos –
Great tips from both sides of the industry – movie producer with plenty of festival experience, and a festival guru that knows the process inside out. this will save you lots of head scratching and give you the confidence and the knowledge you need to start submitting your movie to festivals.
Kerrie Long –
As Festival Producer with the Edmonton International Film Festival (EIFF) in Canada for nearly 15 years, I have experienced a whole lotta misinformation about what film festivals DO and I completely support the sharing of ACCURATE information in a non-biased way. To be honest, I was a bit skeptical about this course, titled FILM FESTIVAL HACKS.
From the first segment, I was hooked. Chris and Alex have created a fascinating journey that is relevant to both filmMAKERS and festival organizers. Chris’s experience behind-the-scenes at numerous festivals combined with Alex’s experiences attending festivals makes for a well-rounded and completely candid course that is less ‘instruction’ and more In the Actor’s Studio.
A few chapters into it, I thought — (insert gratuitous coarse language here) EVERYONE needs to certify themselves as FILM FESTIVAL HACKS! And the course reminded me that we (at EIFF) aren’t all alone on an island, hoping that what we do will resonate with filmMAKERS and that our annual event has VALUE for everyone — audiences included!
Tommy G. Kendrick –
Some of the info is available for free on podcasts, etc but this is well worth the price I paid. It’s valuable to have ‘all’ the info in one spot as that makes it easy to review going forward.
Bruno Catarino –
I would have liked the instructor to go a bit further in some of the subjects, but overall, it’s a great course with tons of useful information for beginners.
Kerry Patten –
A good overall discussion about what you can benefit from when attending and submitting to a festival. It would be better if it was a bit more interactive.
Saiful Islam –
The filming is very poor, and for professional film makers that is sad. The lighting, the composition, the sound quality, the background….everything reflects total amateurs in the shot and production, or perhaps Alex and Chris were disinterested. My point is, if you do anything, even a handshake, its got to be the best in the world at that point in time. Uptil now this has been just talking heads downloading…hope it gets better. In terms of content, the intro has been too long, no script, no bullet points, no summary at the end….guy’s, go watch an e module and then merge it with the knowledge you have.
It gets slightly better from the above point, but those points remain
Ina –
The course is shaped as lectures chopped up in 5-15min blocks. This makes it very easy to digest. Information is conveyed through discussion and conversation rather than formal teacher – student instructions. So pay attention, some of their best advice is just mentioned in passing.
I’m halfway through the course now and already feel more empowered and equipped to have a strategic and focused festival run for my short instead of just submitting randomly.
They mention a lot of beginner mistakes, which I probably would have made without this course. Besides stopping you from making them, they take it to the next level and share how to make the most out of your festival run for the least amount of money.
As a first time film maker, who didn’t think about festivals in the development stage (which they also address), I give this course my best recommendations.
Perfect for my skinny wallet too, the $30 has definitely been a great investment. Thanks for sharing your knowledge guys!
Warren Reed –
The instructors are well-versed and have hands on experience, so there’s a lot of solid material here. It’s good to hear all these different perspectives and points, many of them I wasn’t aware were even issues at all. The practical ideas and advice are helpful also.
Paul Mahoney –
I personally found the podcasts more useful than the festival strategies. Festival strategies would have been nice if they had used graphics, lists or not repeated info. so much.
Samik Bhattacharya –
Quite liked it. Interesting pointers to keep in mind as a beginner as well as a seasoned filmmaker trying to break into the film-festival scene. Covers technicals too – which is an easter egg!
Carol Brook –
It is inspiring me. Makes me see what I did wrong and right at past film festivals
Sheldon Woodson –
Everything I wanted to know. Thank you!!