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Hello Everyone ! I'm new here so let me introduce myself... :)
I'm a guitarist playing mostly gypsy jazz :) and making music in a lot of style in his studio...
I'm now building a…

This November we are hosting a premiere to show our four short films this year for our actors, family and friends. This event is to express our gratitude to the local talent that …

Last year's was rather exciting, with some real gems. I wrote a glowing review here. This year there's been a couple of days I haven't even bothered going to the delegates' screen…

Dear Film Makers

As part of the Hillingdon Arts and Literature Cultural Festival, our local community Film Group is having an OPEN DAY on 11th of October, from 10am till 12 noon,…

We're investing in emerging filmmakers by giving the best short film idea a budget of £25k, with full production support to make it happen. When the winner of our contest complete…

@Luke Walton £25k is a lot of money, but not nearly as much as it sounds, so stretching it artificially will affect quality. I'd be very inclined to let a story run for its natur…

Hi everyone,
while browsing for festivals on FilmFreeway I came across a few festivals who strangely have a big picture in their descriptions that sort of encourages filmmakers to…

I have some personal experience of the people running these festivals though it was some time ago. They are not bad people but personally just looking at the sites, the sites they…

Why do some festivals treat filmmaker so bad?

This year, I submitted a short to Raindance, arguably the biggest (and most important?) Independent festival. The short got rejected…

Interesting to read these comments. Quite shocking that so many people still use Withoutabox; to be polite, it's a relic.

I run the Nightpiece Film Festival in the Edinburgh Fe…

Are some festivals in it just for the money?

I've noticed some filmmakers describe themselves as "Award Winning Film Director" simply for winning an award at a local, unknown pseudo festival. So the PR angle must be a motiva…

I have a problem that doesn't seem like it would be unique to me.

Every now and then I need to transfer a large file, often a DCP, to a fest, so I often use a file transfer servi…

Well, I've settled on MegaUpload. I have several DCPs on there now, the largest being 7GB. They've been up for a month, and I believe will stay up for another 5, at which point I'…

Withoutabox are driving up festival entry fees. For instance they charge 20% on every film entered to a fest.

Find out more here: http://withoutaboxsucks.com/learn-more/

@Karel Bata Here's the LFF rates http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/bfi-london-film-festival-2015-submissions

Hello all,

Quick but possibly stupid question. My short was rejected from the Palm Springs Short Film Festival but accepted into the film market. Is this just something that hap…

Hey Dan. No I won't be going from the UK, the travel expense would swamp the film's budget! Anyway - if anyone's at Palm Springs it's called Turn Of The Screw - go see it at the m…

The Shore Scripts Screenwriting Competition have been lucky enough to add screenwriting guru Lucy V Hay to our already awesome panel of Judges. She asked us if there was a particu…

Interesting point about period scripts having characters that all sound the same. I've been guilty of that. You have a bunch of people in 'Ye olden times' and it's surprisingly ha…

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I have wrote a script which involves some fantastic actors. But the technical aspects are missing. i.e. film maker, sound, lighting etc.

I can offer my directing skills and maybe editing and vfx if necessary, I'm based in Lambeth near Kennington and Vauxhall station. :)

Hello fellow filmmakers - quick question to anyone who's ever been through the Sheffield Meetmarket process. My film has been selected to take part in the Meetmarket in a few week…

Hi Lucas!

Thank you indeed for taking the time out to answer my questions. It's my first time going to the Meetmarket so there's lots of questions I have!

All of the info sounds…

WE run Shortfilm48 (http://shortfilm48.com/) which is in its third year. This year we have opened it up to a potential global audience, with a Vimeo submission process. we have so…

Ignore the typos, please ... it's early ;)

Hi there,

Great apartment-share in Cannes in case you are still looking - it's a private rental from an old friend and works out at €500 per person or €800 per room.

Here's an…

I'm a Cannes newbie this year, attending 15-17 May. Looking to hook up with any fellow Shooters, but especially fellow writers, given that it's not really a writers' event.
www.s…

Hello Shooters,

hope you are all well...

I am planning to submit my short film DID to a couple of UK Film Festivals, such as LSFF, BFI, Cork, Aesthetica and Leeds.

During my re…

Hi Shooters,

Does any of you have an experience submitting your film to any of the following festivals?

The Smalls Film Festival
Edinburgh Short Film Festival
Fingal Film Festi…

Hi everyone,

I've just started a film festival in London and am now looking for venues. Because it is still a newborn project, we don't have any funding guaranteed yet, so I was …

Hi Philip,
thank you for this! We're looking for a place to hold around 150/200 people, but curious about that one, so will try and check it out!
As to running your short film, I…

Not being allowed to show our films elsewhere to attract audiences while waiting for a festival date is not okay. Here a festival that seems to acknowledge the problem: https://tw…

Al, thank you so much, this is great! I'm in.

So I received an email today from withoutabox which included a link to contact their support. I wanted to ask a question so I clicked the link and filled out their form.

I then r…

I much prefer film freeway. I rarely use withoutabox now unless there's something I really want to enter and withoutabox is the only way.

Hi Shooters,
I just wondered if any of you have encountered this annoying situation:

I casually googled the title of one of my shorts to check its searchability, but found that …

Thanks so much to everyone for all your input. When you've nigh on sold your grandmother for scrap to make a short, it's so galling.
I've tried to watch the streaming and the dow…

Hi,

I found the UK pavilion interesting (2014) but seemed a little limited at times. Is it worth registering for the American Pavilion? If you've registered in the past were the…

How did that happen?

I saw a dire lo-budget feature the other day, which also had apalling sound. It was in a decent cinema, and I was pretty sure it should have sounded a bit better. The poor quality…

>>A poor looking image with great sound will always "feel" to have a higher production value than a great looking image with poor sound.<<

Or, as someone once told me…