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Film Festivals Can Be Very Kind To Independent Filmmakers

0426 Houston Worldfest 006- If you are a very independent
filmmaker making movies on a shoestring budget then you might want to
target a film festival like Wordlfest Houston

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.

Most people attend film schools with big dreams of working in the
Hollywood film industry and possibly even making a name for themselves.
They have visions of red carpet interviews, Academy Awards acceptance
speeches and stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. However, most of them
will never see those dreams come to fruition and they will face endless
frustration and disappointment instead.

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 Hollywood film industry is run by a tight
knit community that practices nepotism and rarely opens the door to
newcomers.

If you want to break into Hollywood but your last name is not
Barrymore, Begley, Cyrus or Sheen and the only connection you have is a
cousin who manages your local movie theater, then your best chance of
success is to make an independent film and enter it in film festivals.
If you place in the top three of any category you enter you will
usually be asked to send a film print of your movie to the film
festival so it can be screened to audiences that attend these events.

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.

Winning a top award at any film festival is a good thing for any
independent filmmaker. With an award comes publicity, and publicity is
the life blood for filmmakers and their careers.

Film distribution companies send people to film festivals to purchase
products and they always follow the publicity to find their products.
Many of the purchases they make are independent films made by
independent filmmakers with very small budgets. An independent
filmmaker can make a good profit from one of these distribution deals
and make themselves bankable at the same time. If an independent
filmmaker can sell their independent film to a distribution company,
there is a good chance that they will be able to make more films with
bigger budgets using money from investors, instead of their own hard
earned money.

It is very important that you choose the right film festivals to enter
your independent film in if you want to increase your chances of
winning an award. Of course it would be nice to win a major award at an
event like the Cannes Film Festival, The Toronto International Film
Festival or the Sundance Film Festival. But you have to be realistic
and set your sites on a contest that is friendly to small independent
filmmakers and their independent films. Worldfest Houston International
Film Festival and the Austin Film Festival are two examples of the type
of film festivals that are friendly to independent filmmakers working
with small budgets. There are hundreds more out there and they come in
all shapes and sizes.

The Cannes Film Festival, The Toronto International Film Festival and
the Sundance Film Festival are the biggest and most publicized film
festivals in the world. Unfortunately, they are also the most difficult
ones for small independent films to be accepted into because of the
high standards and politics that they employ.

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 films that are made by small time
independent filmmakers with miniscule budgets. Also, most of these big
budget festival films have big Hollywood stars attached to them which
makes them irresistible to the contest judges and management.

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 Cannes, Toronto and
Sundance. These kinds of films have a much better chance of winning an
award at a film festival like Worldfest Houston or the Austin Film
Festival because they are more interested in showcasing film talent
than they are catering to the Hollywood film industry. Choose your film
festivals wisely and you will increase your chances of winning an award
and securing a distribution deal.

Michael P. Connelly

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