Master Your Film Festival Strategy 🎬 to Boost Your Filmmaking Career

Playing in film festivals can be an effective way of progressing your career as a filmmaker. In this video I break down a possible film festival strategy for how you might approach the film festival landscape as a filmmaker or producer. The video focuses on the European film festival environment but these concepts can also be applied to other regions.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
1:34 Summary of the strategy
3:54 Important concept: The industry weight of festivals
5:09 The reality of submitting to major film festivals
5:42 Small and local film festivals
6:13 The film festival 'sweet spot' for building your career
6:55 Film selections related to major film festivals
8:05 Targeting mid tier film festivals
9:09 A great European film festival list for short films
10:16 Don't forget your film's niche!
11:01 Outro

MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO
Short Film Network (European Film Academy): https://www.europeanfilmacademy.org/industry/european-film-academy-short-film-network/

MUSIC
"Cold" by @Seth_Walker
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Using Film Festivals to Build Your Career - A Realistic Film Festival Strategy

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