So Though I Know the River is Dry is finished and is out there beginning it's life on the festival circuit.
It opened in competition in Rotterdam and won that festival's nomination for Best Short Film at the 2013 European Film Awards. Which was a very good start.
We then spent about three days going through lists and lists of all the film festivals in the world and trying to come up with a chronological strategy of where we would submit to.
The whole slog of film festival applications is incredibly dull if you don't have a distributor, but - unless you can be sure of getting 100,000 hits online, you've got to do it. So, in case this makes anyone's life any easier, this is the spreadsheet we produced.
Everyone will have their own preferences about which festivals sound attractive, but there is also a clear hierarchy - with festivals with markets, competitions and AMPAS qualification at the top of the pile. And main thing you have that is of value is your regional premieres, so you need to have a global strategy.
Hopefully the spreadsheet can help with that.
It opened in competition in Rotterdam and won that festival's nomination for Best Short Film at the 2013 European Film Awards. Which was a very good start.
We then spent about three days going through lists and lists of all the film festivals in the world and trying to come up with a chronological strategy of where we would submit to.
The whole slog of film festival applications is incredibly dull if you don't have a distributor, but - unless you can be sure of getting 100,000 hits online, you've got to do it. So, in case this makes anyone's life any easier, this is the spreadsheet we produced.
Everyone will have their own preferences about which festivals sound attractive, but there is also a clear hierarchy - with festivals with markets, competitions and AMPAS qualification at the top of the pile. And main thing you have that is of value is your regional premieres, so you need to have a global strategy.
Hopefully the spreadsheet can help with that.
