by Ginger Abbot | 8 April, 2021 | Festivals, Promotion, Marketing and Distribution
It’s every filmmaker’s dream to showcase their movie at a festival. These events provide the perfect opportunity to showcase your hard work to fans and critics alike. There are endless American film festivals to choose between, so you may not know exactly where to...
by Elliot Grove | 8 March, 2020 | Festivals, Filmmaking, Filmmaking Career, Promotion, Marketing and Distribution
It’s creeping up to the autumn film festival schedule. Filmmakers at Venice Film Festival, Toronto’s TIFF and of course Raindance Film Festival are all chasing the movie hustle. Many of the autumn festival deadlines are just weeks away. I thought it a good...
by Hedvig Werner | 23 May, 2018 | Book Review, Filmmaking, In Our Opinion
Shoot from the Heart is a book written by the award-winning director and writer Diane Bell. Her first feature Obselidia, produced by her production company Rebel Heart Film, premiered at the Sundance film festival in 2010 and won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize...
by Katy Vans | 6 November, 2014 | Interviews
Esra Saydam and Nisan Dag co-wrote and co-directed Across the Sea. They met and trained in the US but they returned to their home country of Turkey to make this, their first feature. They talk about the hurdles they had to overcome and how they got started. (Esra)...
by Elliot Grove | 17 September, 2014 | In Our Opinion, Promotion, Marketing and Distribution
Why is it that cinemas, theatres, art galleries, music venues and dance companies are closing in droves? Film festivals struggle all the time too. Arts organisations face an uphill battle for economic survival. As our governments in Europe and America slash arts...
