WHY IS EVERY FILM FESTIVAL NOT WORTH YOUR MOVIE?

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WHY IS EVERY FILM FESTIVAL NOT WORTH
YOUR MOVIE?
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Getting your movie into the right film festival
is a tricky affair and it is something that you
need to learn to save your time and money. Apart
from focusing on the content of your film, you
also need to be extra careful while finding out
whether the list of film festivals you submit is
really worth your effort, money and time.
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It is important to develop a strategy to identify
various festivals available and where exactly
your movie fits in.Popular/highly rated film
festivals You may think about considering
larger festivals for your film
distribution, which are much appreciated,
prestigious and largest in the industry.
But, you need to approach them with
a little caution and approach them
only if you think the movie you
have directed is strong enough to compete with
other movies and not just in
terms of quality, but also in
terms of media and press coverage. As you
know, it is the media who make the
festival, the rumours, and the
buyers behaviour
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Whether the film festival is worth to submit your
movie? Of course, film distribution matters a lot
and whether the film festival is worth submitting
your movie is solely based on the question
whether the film festival has a film market for
your movie. Yes you could hear that film
festivals will bring exposure to you and your
movie and have you meet an audience etc, but
truth be told, it is all blabla to have you pay
to submit your film, because, dont forget, those
festivals are a business and they need to be run
accordingly. So dont fall in the trap unless the
festival pays you to screen your film.
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Film festivals are meant to sell your movie. If
you think the primary purpose of film festivals
is selling your movie, then it is true. Film
festivals with a strong film market can
help you solve this purpose. So you
need to choose the right one. Until and
unless you get a good film market for
your movie, it is like wasting your
time, money and efforts submit
your movie in a list of high
-rated film festivals as at end of
the day, once your film is made,
what matters is selling it so that
large audiences can watch it.