Showing posts with label festivals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label festivals. Show all posts

Monday, July 15, 2013

Upcoming Screenings: Though I Know the River is Dry



A quick update on upcoming screenings of Though I Know the River is Dry. 

We will be featured in three major international festivals this summer, starting in competition in Melbourne in August. We will be able to announce the other two shortly. 

We will also have screenings in two art spaces in London this summer: the Mosaic Rooms and Bold Tendencies at the Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park. Both these screenings will be presented alongside a selection of films from Mosireen



Friday, March 29, 2013

Festivals & Screenings

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.