Unlock the secrets to film festival success! Learn how to submit for free and avoid submission fees with our comprehensive course.
Film Festival Hacks is your go-to guide for navigating the film festival world without breaking the bank. Get practical tips and insider knowledge from experienced filmmakers to get your indie film noticed and accepted by festivals internationally.
Filmmaking is tough enough! We show u the secret hacks to get into film festivals for FREE & How not to get ripped off!
Before you read what I have to say, see what our other students are saying about our course:
As Festival Producer with the Edmonton International Film Festival (EIFF) in Canada for nearly 15 years, I have experienced a whole lotta misinformation about what film festivals DO and I completely support the sharing of ACCURATE information in a non-biased way. To be honest, I was a bit skeptical about this course, titled FILM FESTIVAL HACKS. From the first segment, I was hooked.
Chris and Alex have created a fascinating journey that is relevant to both filmMAKERS and festival organizers. Chris's experience behind-the-scenes at numerous festivals combined with Alex's experiences attending festivals makes for a well-rounded and completely candid course that is less 'instruction' and more In the Actor's Studio. A few chapters into it, I thought -- (insert gratuitous coarse language here) EVERYONE needs to certify themselves as FILM FESTIVAL HACKS!
And the course reminded me that we (at EIFF) aren't all alone on an island, hoping that what we do will resonate with filmMAKERS and that our annual event has VALUE for everyone -- audiences included!. - Kerrie Long
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Can't get your indie film into film festivals? Are you tired of spending TONS OF CASH, you don't have, on submission fees? Want to get the inside secrets to give your film the best chance on being accepted to film festivals?
Don't have the money continue submitting to film festivals?
Do you want to submit to film festivals for cheap or FREE?
Do you want to learn how I got my films accepted into almost 600 international film festivals without paying submission fees?
Do you want to Enroll NOW and get into the minds of film festival programmers? Let's get started?
They DON'T teach you this in Film School!
Film Festival Hacks is a course pulls back the curtain on the film festival business (and it is a business). THIS IS A MUST FOR ALL FILMMAKERS!
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Save TIME and MONEY by learning what film festivals are looking for and how to position your short or feature film to have a fighting chance of being accepted.
This is a LIVING COURSE, we will be adding to it and updating it often!
You will be taught from both sides of "the badge." Alex Ferrari is an award winning filmmaker with almost 600 international film festivals under his belt. He'll show you tricks and techniques on how he got his features and short films accepted with paying little or NO MONEY!
Here's what legendary film critic Roger Ebert (which he met at a film festival) had to say about Alex's short film:
"BROKEN is essentially a demonstration of the mastery of horror imagery and techniques...effective and professional." - Roger Ebert (Chicago SunTimes)
On the "other side of the badge" is Chris Holland, author of Film Festival Secrets: A Handbook for Independent Filmmakers and festival organizer who has been on staff at two Academy-Accredited (Oscar-qualifying) film festivals.
Chris has also worked closely with the staff of more than 200 festivals worldwide, including Sundance, Slamdance, AFI Fest, SXSW, and many more. Over the last decade he has consulted on festival strategy with hundreds of filmmakers just like you and helped them take control of their run on the festival circuit.
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"Great tips from both sides of the industry - movie producer with plenty of festival experience, and a festival guru that knows the process inside out. this will save you lots of head scratching and give you the confidence and the knowledge you need to start submitting your movie to festivals." - Ioannis Tsiokos
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Here's a bit about Film Festival Hacks:
Included in this game changing course: more than 4 hours (and growing) of insider secrets and strategies for getting your film into film festivals (over 35 videos). There has never been an online seminar like this one -- it’s the Ultimate Film Festival Course.
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FILM FESTIVAL HACKS COVERS:
Why Submit to Film Festivals Today
Audience Building
Distribution for Your Film
Career Building and Networking
Travel the World
Educate Yourself for FREE
Prize Money and Awards
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The Hidden Benefits of Film Festivals
What are Your Goals?
This is a Business, and the Film Festival is Your Customer
How to Do Research
How to Submit to Film Festivals for Cheap or FREE
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Understanding the "Mystery" of How Film Festivals Program their Fests
The Screening Process
Common Fears and Myths
Film Festivals Have an Audience to Serve
The #1 Predictor of Film Festival Success
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How to Leverage a Film Festival Screening to Help Sell Your Film
Audience Building Techniques
Networking with Other Film Festival Programmers
Discover What Distributors Want and How to Find Them
What are Your Chance of Getting a Traditional Distribution Deal?
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Technical Requirements for Film Festival
What’s a DCP?
Quicktime Compression
HDCam vs HD-SR
DVD and BluRay
Warnings and Security
and much more!
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Important information before you enroll:
In case you find the course useless, don't forget you are covered by a 30 day money back guarantee, full refund, no questions asked!
Once enrolled, you have unlimited, lifetime access to the course!
You will have instant and free access to any updates I'll add to the course.
You’ll get access to the course discussion forum, where you can ask us questions and compare notes with your fellow students.
We will give you our full support regarding any issues or suggestions related to the course
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Enroll NOW and learn the secrets of getting your indie film into film festival around the world! Let's get started!
Create a festival strategy by selecting appropriate festivals for their films.
Submit to Film Festivals like a Pro
Career Building and Networking
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IFH Courses is a creator, publisher and distributor of high-quality online courses covering all avenues of the filmmaking, screenwriting, post-production, and social media/marketing crafts. Think of it as the ultimate online film school. We bring together industry-leading experts from all disciplines so you can learn from the best. Filmmakers, Screenwriters & Content Creators are our passion!Our expert instructors will teach...
Chris Holland is a consultant on marketing and festival strategy for independent filmmakers around the world. He is also the author of Film Festival Secrets: A Handbook for Independent Filmmakers (filmfestivalsecrets.com). For more than a decade Chris has worked on all sides of the festival circuit, including time spent at B-Side Entertainment, Slated, IFP, the Austin Film Festival and Atlanta...
Insightful, Helpful to Indie Filmmakers, Good for research.
Everything I wanted to know. Thank you!!
It is inspiring me. Makes me see what I did wrong and right at past film festivals
Quite liked it. Interesting pointers to keep in mind as a beginner as well as a seasoned filmmaker trying to break into the film-festival scene. Covers technicals too - which is an easter egg!
I personally found the podcasts more useful than the festival strategies. Festival strategies would have been nice if they had used graphics, lists or not repeated info. so much.
Don’t really like the format and questions are never answered. It took months for one question to be answered when asked via the class.
So far, I like the presenters, but I haven't heard any secrets that are gems yet. Looking forward to the rest of it.
This has been a great course to really get into. I love the info and it is definitely helpful.
Great advice both of you thanks!
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Ernest S.
going throught this course of film festival hacks and getting aware of how film festival world really works and the cut of indi film maker, it charge me up with the new found information, confidence and courage. i can't thank enogh. the course is very informative and try it best to present the stark reality as it is, in order to educate and prepare the indi filmmaker to navigate throught all the challeges as a film maker and submission of film to film festivals.... I would have gladly given 5 star instead of 4 and half.... if the course had been up to date.... i check out distribber from the course bonus info and found out they are no more around gone bankrupt.... this 1 hour section was unnecessary dealing in distribber when the company is no more..... Please update the course. thanks