Film theory

Why You Shouldn’t Care About Getting Rejected From Film Festivals (and Some Tips on How to Get Accepted)

14.10.2017 2686

Noam Kroll is an award winning Los Angeles based filmmaker and founder of the boutique post-production company Creative Rebellion. In his latest guest post for Indiewire, he writes about why getting accepted into a film festival is no longer essential for getting your independent film out into the world. Check out Kroll’s blog here, and Creative Rebellion here.

Attention, Filmmakers: 9 Tips for Maximizing Your Film’s Success on the Festival Circuit

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08.09.2017 2446

As the director of The Portland Film Festival, I was recently invited to speak on a panel with other festival organizers called, “Maximizing Your Film’s Success on the Festival Circuit.”

8 Tips to Make the Most of Film Festival Submissions

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02.09.2017 2493

This post was previously published on Seed&Spark’s blog and appears here with their permission.

Here Are 10 Things Filmmakers Want Festivals to Do

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10.07.2017 2298

The torrential feedback to last week’s article 10 Things Every Film Festival Wants Filmmakers to Know warrants a response from filmmakers. As festivalsknow, filmmakers are the true heart and sole of a film festival. During my tenor with festivals, I have spoken to, or consulted with, hundreds of filmmakers. In the spirit of helping festivals understand filmmakers and with homage to Law & Order, these are their (and my) stories.

4 Reasons To Attend Film Festivals

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05.06.2017 2248

So why should you be there too? 4 Reasons to Attend Film Festivals.

How to Make Sure Film Festivals Actually Watch Your Movie — And Hold Them Accountable

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31.05.2017 1868

A filmmaker proved a festival lied about watching his movie. He got his money back.

7 Ways to Fail at Promoting Your Film Online

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27.02.2017 2010

Want to decrease press interest and the size of your audience? Then do these seven things.

8 INCREDIBLE WAYS OF PROMOTING YOUR SHORT FILMS

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06.02.2017 3153

Making short films is a great way for budding movie artists to gain experience in the entire process of movie-making. But the only way people will watch them is if they’ve been well-promoted. Here are a few ways to promote your short film, so get started.

LONELY SOULS OF MICROBES

2014, Russia, 35' fiction film producer Mikhail Romanovskiy

LIVE, SOLDIER, LIVE

2014, Russia, 20' documentary producer Kirsten Gaynet

EX.AMEN

2014, Russia, 16:07' fiction film producer Yury Sukhodolskiy

SOME IN, SOME OUT

2014, Russia, 42:52' documentary producer Olga Arlauskas

THE LAST NIGHT

2015, Russia, 90:02' fiction film producer Arseniy Gonchukov

THE BUSINESS PROPOSAL

2015, Russia, 11:25' fiction film producer Efgraph Sorokin

TRADITION

2015, Russia, 24:16' fiction film producer Dmitry Golubov

GORBATOV

2015, Russia, 24:42' fiction film producer Nikita Ordynskiy

HYSTERICAL

2015, Russia, 16:22' fiction film producer Anna Kott

INSIGHT

2015, Russia, 88:43’' fiction film producer Alexandr Kott

NORMANDIE – NIEMEN. MONOLOGUE

2015, Russia, France, 51:28' documentary producer Egor Klimovich

DIALOGUES ABOUT THE MARTIAL ARTS

2015, Russia, 61:03' documentary producer Mariya Linder,Yakov Zakhvatkin

MESS

2015, Russia, 12:22' documentary producer Ilya Zheltyakov

DIFFERENT PEOPLE

2015, Russia, 09:00' fiction film producer Kirill Kosolapov

THE STREET MUSICIANS

2015, Russia, 25:02' documentary producer Kirill Burdov

VANYA

2015, Russia, 05:05' fiction film producer Kristina Rabotenko

BEYOND

2015, Russia, 09:59' documentary producer Yuriy Kalyuzhniy

MOVING IN CIRCLES

2015, Russia, 14:30' fiction film producer Maxim Dashkin

BROKEN MAIDEN

2015, Singapore, Russia, 09:26' fiction film producer Maxim Dashkin

ARCADIA

2015, USA, 53:03' documentary producer Helga Landauer

CEASEFIRE

2015, Russia, 65:08 ' documentary producer Konstantin Smirnov

THE SAME BLOOD

2015, Belarus, 14:59' fiction film producer Mitry Semenov-Aleynikov

PIETRO'S ROOM (LA CAMERA DI PIETRO)

2015, Italy, 17:37' fiction film producer Alina Gurinova

HUMANOID

2016, Russia, 16:01' fiction film producer Ekaterina Stashevskaya

THE HUNTER’S HOUSE

2016, Russia, 23:27' fiction film producer Andrey Egorov

MY APOLOGY

2016, Russia, 10:26' fiction film producer Yuriy Kalyuzhniy

HEAR ME

2016, Russia, 90' documentary producer Olga Arlauskas,Svetlana Gorlo

LESSON UNLEARNED 14\41

2016, Russia, 23:40' fiction film producer Nina Vedmitskaya

LIVE

2016, Russia, 16:28 ' fiction film producer Elena Piskareva

PINEAPPLE

2016, Russia, 91:09' fiction film producer Vladimir Rudak

THE SECRET TO A HAPPY MARRIAGE

2016, Russia, 15:58' fiction film producer Andrey Bulatov

DEEP DOWN 1080

2016, Russia, 30:00' documentary producer Yuliya Kiselyova

ALEXITHYMIA

2016, Russia, 22:02' fiction film producer Alena Alenkina

FREE

2016, Russia, 29:59' fiction film producer Yuliya Dmitriyeva

THE CAR

2016, Russia, 26:59' fiction film producer Petr Levchenko

DIAMONDS FOR MY ANTS

2016, Russia, 15:22' documentary producer Karina Vilenkina

OVERDRIVE. RETURN POINT

2016, Russia, 93:06' documentary producer Natalia Gugueva

CLOSE RELATIONS

2016, Russia, 29:47' fiction film producer Anna Simakova

SILVER TALK

2016, Russia, 13:55’' fiction film producer Pavel Inin

STROBOSCOPE

2016, Russia, 13:09' fiction film producer Evgeniya Duplyakina

ELECTRICITY (I WANT TO DIE)

2016, Russia, 26:00' fiction film producer Veniamin Tronin

LIFEWORK. PEOPLE OF THE NORTH

2016, Russia, 22:29' documentary producer Nikita Tikhonov-Rau,Olga Arlauskas

THE BEGINNING

2016, Russia, 03:27 ' fiction film producer Vladimir Tsarenko

THE SEEKERS

2016, Russia, Greece, 99:39' documentary producer Mark Visioner

THE LAW OF THE EXCLUDED THIRD OR NO THIRD IS GIVEN

2016, Russia, 24:20' fiction film producer Alexandra Sokolovskaya

TO LOVE

2016, Russia, 29:55' fiction film producer Tatiana Ra

THE ALPHABET OF BEN SIRACH. LILITH

2016, Russia, 04:59' fashion fiction film producer Jana Nedzvetkaya

SIXTEEN YEAR OLD WHISKEY

2016, Russia, 28:00' fiction film producer Denis Lafanov

MARGIE

2016, Italy, 13:09' fiction film producer Domenico Modafferi

LONDON AFLOAT

2016, Italy, UK, 29:08' documentary producer Gloria Aura Bortolini

СELLOPHANE

2016, Georgia, 08:00' fiction film producer Khukhua Tornike

L'UOMO VOLANTE

2016, Italy, 23:45' fiction film producer Adelmo Togliani

THIS IS ALL MINE

2016, Russia, 109’' documentary producer Daniil Bondar

VALUE

2016, Russia, 21:03' fiction film producer Olga Shtol

PARALLEL LINES MEET AT INFINITY

2016, Russia, Hungary, Belarus, 70:51' fiction film producer Lika Alekseeva

BOYARSKY

2016, Russia, 10:30' fiction film producer Alexander Saltykov,Darya Homyakova

QUITE A FREE MAN

2016, Russia, 13:14' fiction film producer Sasha Yastrebova

MADMAN’S CONSPIRACY

2016, Russia, Spain, 50:07' documentary producer Algis Arlauskas

SNEAKERS

2016, Russia, 96:58' fiction film producer Sergey Solovyov

CHOKED

2016, Russia, 09:00' fiction film producer Julia Saponova

SPIRIDON

2016, Russia, 22:36’' fiction film producer Konstantin Abaev

WOMEN

2016, Russia, 14:15' fiction film producer Anastasiya Marsakova

CANNIBAL

2016, Belarus, 23:22' fiction film producer Alexander Vysokovskiy

ZABELIN

2016, Russia, 29:59' fiction film producer Nika Barabash,Andreas Costandakes

BIRD

2016, Russia, 91:14' fiction film producer Kseniya Baskakova

HE WAS A FRIEND OF HIM

2016, Russia, 26:59' fiction film producer Evgeniy Puzyrevskiy

ROAD TO HOME

2016, Russia, 9:50' fiction film producer Tatiana Astapova

MAMA – SAINT SEBASTIAN

2016, Russia, UK, 27:20' fiction film producer Alexander Mercury

#WHOWEKILL

2016, Russia, 08:14' fiction film producer Pavel Ivanov

WELL, HELLO, OKSANA SOKOLOVA!

2016, Russia, 22:24' fiction film producer Kirill Vasiliev

YOUR STEPS

2016, Russia, 21:14' fiction film producer Max Kubrinskiy

I WAS BITTEN BY A SHARK

2016, Russia, 59:45' documentary producer Maxim Kobzev

GREY MOUSE

2016, Russia, 14:41' fiction film producer Yuri Alessin

SOULS DEAD

2016, Belarus, 28:31' fiction film producer Victor Krasovskiy

GOOD DAY

2016, Russia, 08:03' fiction film producer Olga Dibtseva

WATER MELON RINDS

2016, Russia, 83:00’' fiction film producer Boris Gouts

THE ROADS WE DON'T TAKE

2016, Russia, 13:36' documentary producer Zlata Oronova

LAIKA STARDUST

2016, Italy, 14:25' fiction film producer Antonin Bobo

CLAY - LOVE

2017, Kazakhstan, 23:00' fiction film producer Aigul Axambiyeva

DOGMEAT

2017, Russia, 30:58' fiction film producer Kseniya Tischenko

I CAN SEE YOU

2017, Russia, 17:06' fiction film producer Denis Kudryavtsev

BRAIN: THE SECOND UNIVERSE

2017, Russia, 85:28' documentary producer Yulia Kiseleva

FRUITOSHINA TIME

2017, Russia, 17:21' fiction film producer Vakhtang Khubutia

DREAM ON

2017, Russia, 09:30' fiction film producer Alexey Puchkovskiy

DOMINIKA

2017, Russia, 79:38' fiction film producer Oleg Ageychev

MEMORY

2017, Russia, 08:36' fiction film producer Victor Derebenko

YOF

2017, Russia, 27' fiction film producer Sidorov-Frantsuzov

THE UTOPIANS

2017, Russia, 25' fiction film producer Svetlana Sukhanova

THE SIMPLE DAY

2017, Russia, India, 21:18' documentary producer Maria Khristoforova

THE BEST EMPLOYEE

2017, Russia, 28:00' fiction film producer Nikolay Kotyash

SON OF MAN

2017, Russia, 25:20' fiction film producer Sergey Pozdnyakov

PAVLENSKY. LIFE NAKED

2017, Russia, Latvia, 70:51' documentary producer Darya Khrenova

WITHOUT REHEARSALS

2017, Russia, 32:56' fiction film producer Narkas Iskandarova

FOR ALL I DIED

2017, Russia, 30' fiction film producer Nastya Antonova

DISSERNET: THE EVOLUTION OF ALTRUISM

2017, Russia, 50:43' documentary producer Dmitry Zavilgelskiy

CRADLE

2017, Russia, 10:35' fiction film producer Egor Voronin

LIFEWORK. YUGRA

2017, Russia, 28:03' documentary producer Nikita Tikhonov-Rau

THE TUSSLE

2017, Russia, 25:01' fiction film producer Evgeniy Nikitin

THREE DAYS TILL THE SPRING

2017, Russia, 99' fiction film producer Alexander Kasatkin

BAKUROV

2017, Russia, 30:48 / 54:58' documentary producer Yulia Kiseleva