Filmmaking Articles and Advice from Film Consultant Peter D. Marshall
Posted in Film Festivals on Mar 9th, 2010
This article was written for Best Social Media Marketing Tips.
“Since the birth of the moving picture, film has played an important role in the way people experience culture worldwide. This is apparent at the 400 film festivals which take place around the globe each year. These events give talented [...]
Posted in Film Festivals on Feb 14th, 2010
This article was written by Brian Newman.
“I recently attended the IFFS Summit in Las Vegas, where I spoke about new online strategies for film festivals. The IFFS is kinda like a trade org (but less official) for film fests around the world, and the Summit I attended was exclusively US fests (they have another summit [...]
Posted in Film Festivals on Feb 4th, 2010
This article was written by Sachin.
“Another film watching year is in the books! My final total of 338 films seen in 2009 is lower than the 445 films seen in 2008 and 385 in 2007. However, the quality of films I saw in 2009 was much higher than that of the previous two years. With [...]
Posted in Documentary Filmmaking, Film Festivals on Jan 19th, 2010
This article was written by AJ Schnack.
“There’s a bunch of other great American film festivals that do good work for documentaries and filmmakers. And if our Top 25 Film Festivals list was completely US-centric, the following ten film festivals would all make the list.
Here’s an alphabetical list of 10 more American festivals that matter, with [...]
Posted in Film Festivals on Dec 21st, 2009
The Trailer Festival will take place on April 29th, 2010 at the ICM Screening Room in the MGM Tower, Century City, Los Angeles and will be hosted by Lloyd Kaufman. Only trailers will be screened and the audience will be exclusively entertainment professionals.
This is an opportunity to get your work seen by companies like HBO, [...]
Posted in Film Festivals on Nov 26th, 2009
“When “Slumdog Millionaire” premiered at the 2008 Telluride Film Festival, audiences cheered for the uplifting story about a kid from the Mumbai slums who wins big on a game show. After it went on to take home the coveted Audience Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival, the film’s award season performance went on to [...]
Posted in Film Festivals on Nov 3rd, 2009
“Home movies have long been a training ground for Hollywood careers: With backyard for backlot, Steven Spielberg and the Coen brothers belonged to the Super-8 generation, and Robert Rodriguez taught himself by shooting on a JVC camcorder and editing with two VCRs, but the results were generally too scrappy to share beyond a select audience [...]
Posted in Film Festivals on Oct 19th, 2009
“Film festivals and politics may make uneasy bedfellows at times, but most international programmers are adamant it is their duty to present culturally and politically diverse films. Five leading festival chiefs tell Screen why.”
Read this article from Screen Daily.
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Posted in Film Festivals on Oct 1st, 2009
“I’m not sure how many in the audience of the Wednesday morning session of the Film and Television Forum will share this sentiment, but in my next life I’m coming back as Lucas Cruikshank.
The Nebraska teenager, a.k.a. Fred Figglehorn, has been hoovering up dough thanks to three dozen short videos, posted on YouTube, where he [...]
Posted in Film Festivals on Sep 10th, 2009
“Having just participated in an interview on Film Festival Radio that was meant to cover how to “work” a film festival, I realized that a lot of what I prepared to say didn’t get covered. Time ran short, other questions were asked. Anyway, I thought I would share with you the other points I meant [...]
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