Creating Your Film Festival Strategy

What can you expect from film festivals? What festivals will help you sell your film? Which festivals should you submit to? Is premiere status important?

This will give you a primer on the film festival landscape.

This link gives 197 fests that can qualify a film for an Academy Award, a BAFTA, a Canadian Screen Award, or European Film Award. If you want to expand your submissions, choosing from this list will keep you in the ballpark of fests that have some recognition. https://filmfreeway.com/festivals/cur...

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0:00 Top tier festivals
1:20 Short films at Top Tier Fests
1:45 Selling shorts
2:23 Access to Public Funding
2:48 Other Top Tier Fests 1B
3:33 Top Tier Specialty Fests
4:33 Best Mid Tier Fests
5:46 Other Film Festivals
6:35 Scam Festivals
7:56 Premiere status
9:00 Upcoming videos