Print images from your film: Select several film stills and behind-the-scenes images to give to festivals and press outlets. Make sure to caption them and credit your photographer or cinematographer. An official film poster: This helps build your filmâs branding. Plus, you can give copies to festivals and PR outlets.
Create a website and social media handles for your film. When you submit, this makes a huge difference, as the festival programmers will look at these. Design an amazing poster for your film. Plan on spending a year and a half or more on this short film, from pre-production, to post, to doing a festival circuit. Your actors may work for two
Submission Confirmation. Please send your submission in the most complete and finished form possible. SXSW will only review the first submitted cut. Once you have submitted your project, you will receive a confirmation email from SXSW within 48 hours. This email will confirm that your film has been submitted correctly.
In the mean time here are some broad stroke things filmmakers can do to vet a festival. 1: see if the festival has well attended, live events, preferably in a nice theater. The easier it is to find evidence of a live screening the more likely it is the festival follows through. (We have live screenings.
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