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The Trailer Festival.

Posted Friday, January 22nd, 2010

OK, so you’ve done experimental cross platform narrative filmmaking and you’ve already made more short films than your agent approves of. Where next? Well how about cutting together a teaser for your feature debut and sending it to The Trailer Festival? Styling itself bluntly as “an event for the entertainment industry” this has a deliciously unflirty approach to attracting your submissive dollar. (thirty if you do this before the end of the month…) Here’s the pitch: The Trailer Festival will

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to the hills

Posted Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Last minute preparations for Sundance underway, leaving for SLC in a few hours. I’m interested in finding out how the festival feels this year – with John Cooper at the helm.  There are new experiments with a Sundance/YouTube collaboration (indieWIRE Article explains), a focus on lower budget films, and Redford declaring “We’re going back to our roots.” Ingrid and I are covering the festival from the perspective of filmmakers trying to get the most out of it. I’m on a

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