HOT TIP (June 6, 2013) FESTIVAL CIRCUIT (Part 1)… (“Huh? What is this ‘alleged’ Circuit?”) (For all Hot Tips go “MOVIE CLOUD” & “LIKE”) -------------------------------------------- FESTIVAL CIRCUIT. FESTIVAL ROUTE. How many times have you heard, “You’ve got to go to the Festival Circuit”, “You must go to the Festival Route”. Circuit, Route, Cycle, Organization…what the heck are they talking about? What the heck is this Circuit? What the heck is this Route? Circuit. Route. Circuit. Route….? Every 2-4 year, $50K-$200K, theory laden film program has the instructors and the guest lecturers tell you, you-the first-timer, how important it is, marketing-wise, to get exposure and visibility for your movie by attending the Festival Circuit (aka: Festival Route). I agree, however, I’m not one of those $50K-$200K programs trying to milk you out with romantic and naïve information that is absolutely not practical. I’m only the owner of a “2-DAY FILM SCHOOL” program that costs only $395…but has the real info…not the rah-rah bullsh*t most like to here. i.e. “$50K-$200K instructors, Name me the Festival Circuit. Go ahead. Make my day. Give me a name of the Circuit.” Now, here’s my “Cut-To-The-Chase” $395 Filmmaking How-To, No-Bull Info. “THERE AIN’T NO FRICKIN’ ROUTE or CIRCUIT”…. Once again: Let’s assume this lecturer, or professor, at UCLA/USC/NYU states “It’s very important to attend the Festival Circuit with your feature film.” “It’s total hodge-podge.” I agree. But that’s not teaching…that’s preaching. For now I’ll ask that lecturer or professor, that’s costing $50K-$200K, …. “NAME ME THE FESTIVAL CRCUIT”. Go ahead, give me the name of this alleged “Circuit” or “Route”. The way they teach/preach they make it sound that it is just some organization you join, give them access to your print and they (whoever, they are) spiral it around to 10-15 cities-nations. Again, don’t preach and tell me “Attend the Festival Circuit”… Teach and give me the name of that circuit… When you actually demand some answers and real information from many teachers you will find that can’t give it to you, not because they’re trying to hide the information, but merely because they’re not entrepreneurially oriented and have attempted it in the real world. Now, with my “2-Day Film School”, where the real filmmaking world is presented we quickly on Day-2 of the course “define the Festival Circuit”, “which Festivals are included”, “What they cost”, “When, during the calendar year, they are”, and which one You, the first-timer, who has probably spent 99% of your money (you budget) by the time you are in the midst of finalizing your post-production process. BOTTOM-LINE #1: 20-30 years ago I bet you can’t, in the next 3 minutes, name more than 10 Film Festivals in the entire world…no way you could name 20 film festivals. Today, 2013, however, there are between 3,000-4,000 Film festivals. They’re everywhere. Can you name me a decent sized city or nation today that doesn’t have at least 3-7 Film Festivals/annum. Thus, today, Film Festivals are everywhere. And, I believe in another 2-3 years there will be an additional 2,000-3,000 Film festivals. They’re everywhere and THERE IS NO CIRCUIT…although that is what you keep hearing. BOTTOM-LINE #2: Why are you going to a Film Festival? Answer is simple and it is not because it is a “Cultural Event” as promoted. The reason you, with your first feature film, attend a Film Festival is for 1 reason, which it is stated in 3 different ways, but the reason is because it’s BUSINESS…and you desire to make money and pay back your investors. Thus, the reason you go to a Film Festival, which you parse in 3 different ways, which are… 1. SELL YOUR FILM…or 2. BE DISCOVERED…or 3. GET A DISTRIBUTOR BOTTOM LINE #3: Now, to either (1) Sell Your Film or (2) Be Discovered or (3) Get a Distributor you better get into one of the 3,000-4,000 Film Festivals/annum that Distributors actually send their buyers (aka: Acquisition Executives) to. Always, remember you CANNOT (1) Sell your Film or (2) Be Discovered or (3) Get a Distributor if you attend one of the 99.9% of the festivals where distributors (Miramax, Weinsteins, Sony Classics, Relativity, Participant Media, etc.) HAVE NOT SENT their Acquisition Execs. Common sense. Tomorrow’s post I will give you, of the 3,000-4,000 Film Festivals, the 15-20 that Acquisition Execs actually GO TO…and I’ll give you the names of these Festivals by month (January, February, March, etc) thus, for the first-time ever…we will create a Festival Circuit or Festival Route for you….Cool! Hope this Helps, Looking forward to tomorrow’s List, Happy Filmmaking, Dov Simens/Creator “2-DAY FILM SCHOOL”/Co-Founder/MovieCloud™ >>>>> DovSimensFilmSchool > DovSimensFilmSchool
Posted on: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:12:15 +0000
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