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Film Festivals Can Be
Very Kind to Independent Filmmakers
If you are one of those people who went to film school and
still cannot understand why they did not teach you how to get a job in the film
industry, then I suggest that you stop complaining, gather up all the creative,
hard working film production people you know, make yourself an independent film
and enter it in some film festivals. If you win an award at a prominent film
festival your life may change very dramatically for the better. Even a small
award at a small film festival will more than likely set you on the path to
having a career in the film industry.
After graduating from film school most people are expected
to break into a business that is considered to be one of the most difficult in
the world to find employment, unless you have connections, of course. For the
ones without connections, it can be very frustrating. Unfortunately for them,
the
If you want to break into
Film festival audiences are a combination of film critics,
media reporters, film distribution representatives, film fans, celebrities and
local residents. These are the people that can create a buzz about a movie after
they see it. When a buzz is created about a movie at a film festival it usually
starts in the theater lobbies and then works its way out into the media where it
can take on a life of its own. If this happens to any independent film it is
destined to succeed, and the independent filmmaker who made the film
springboards into a career in the film industry. Just ask Robert Rodriguez or
Quentin Tarantino about the value of film festivals and they will tell you.
Most of the films that win awards and get screened at the
Big Three film festivals are made by independent film production divisions of
the Big Six film studios like Warner Bros and Disney. By definition they are
still considered to be independent films if no more than 50 percent of the
funding comes from a major studio. But that fifty percent is usually millions of
dollars, and this puts the production value in a whole different league than the
movies that are made by small time independent filmmakers with miniscule
budgets. Also, most of these big budget festival films have big
The Big Three film festivals have been invaded by the Big
Six film production studios with big budget movies masquerading as independent
films. This makes it very hard for a film that was shot with a digital camera on
a shoestring budget to compete at
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