To find out more on the inside of Film festivals I decided to do a call out asking different companies if they could give me some information on film festivals and how they feel about them. I tweeted a great deal of different film makers and film organisations including creative england, BBC studios, South Yorkshire film network.
I also asked some people who had won or been nominated awards such as Garrett Sammons and Larry Smith. Importantly I tweeted independant film festivals in the United Kingdom including Raindance and UK Independant shorts.
Film festivals are a great platform to distribute your film and often having a film on a festival circuit is a recognized way to promote yourself a film maker. Film festivals do not guarentee that you will secure a job as there is not guarentee's, however it does help that your film is being showcased to commissioners or distributors. Independant film festivals such as Raindance has significantly changed the outlook of independant cinema.
- Larry Smith, film festival blogger.
Festivals are integral to the film industry as they help to establish young film makers onto the film network. Film festivals are the easiest way to promote a film as self distribution is not currently easy to do, with the vast amount of films online, self distribution is not an alternative to film festivals.
- UK Independant shorts.
I found this beneficial as it outlined the importance of film festivals in the industry.
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