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Hello!

Can anyone recommend cinemas/screening rooms with decent capacities (250-300) which I can four-wall or private hire?

Many thanks,
Mat

Message me and I'm happy to help in Washington DC.

An aggregator is asking for an upfront fee of £150 to place my short on itunes.
Does anyone have any experience with a short on itunes? The kind of yearly revenue etc?

Thanks.

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Alève thanks!! I got a good response from the KFA. Am going to send them some of my films.
I really appreciate everyones responses! I will place one of the films on iTunes and th…

Hello Shooters!

I have shooted a 2 hour length footage in the coffee farms in Rwanda, Central Africa. I'm aiming to make a Documentary Film based on Rwanda's land where some of t…

Thanks a lot, David!

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Alexandra!!!

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I have a four minute thirty second short. It is a bit good and we are all proud of it. I am looking for some film festivals (anywhere) but ones that take films on their merit…

Thanks folks. Some very useful info there. I will look into those suggestions. Our film was made for a 48 hour challenge and so was worked to a theme. It has a certain charm and …

Hello Shooters!

I'm traveling to Stockholm next month (14th December 2014), are there any Short Film Competitions that I could submit my 15min short film?
Are there any useful re…

Hi Shooters!

Do you know where I could find a list with short film festivals in the UK and Sweden?
Is there any website or forum regardless any competitions for film makers?
Is a…

Hi guys.

I'm travelling to Stockholm next month, so I'd like to know if there are any other Short Film Festivals (in the capital and across the country), apart from the Internat…

Hi Shooters,

’m a student studying film production at university and for my graduation dissertation, I have chosen to write about film festivals and festival strategy. I want to …

Would anyone recommend going to 'Let The Film Do The Talking' tomorrow night at Cafe Mode?...

https://shootingpeople.org/events/detail/venue/19004

I'm looking to see some inspir…

Hi everyone!

I've produced a 20 minute epic short film set in Medieval Yorkshire and am looking for somewhere to screen it. This screening would be for all of our Kickstarter bac…

Hello, I have close contact with a 120 screen cinema in Harrow, which is on London tube. They will ask for £400 as minimum though but can have a word. Pls email me on kaujla@btint…

Once a month, maybe. Or twelve times a year. Whichever suits.

As Simon said ... the monthly Magic Lantern meetings already happen. Try them out first before "reinventing the wheel".

A short film I made is currently being submitted to festivals. One American festival has asked that I use the program "Handbrake" to convert the film in to an "Apple TV 3" format …

Is the sound clipping, or is it compression artefacting? If the latter, look at the audio bitrate which is separate from the video bitrate. 30fps ought to be irrelevant.

I am converting a short film to DCP for festivals and also want to print DVDs and blu-rays of it. Does anyone have any particular recommendations of London-based companies. I have…

I am looking for either gels or frostings to cover light bulbs, so it can also be pre-cut.

Go to your local lighting hire company and ask if you can go through the scraps box - they will send out whole rolls and have odds and ends come back, some roll ends, some precut …

I help to run Watersprite (The Cambridge International Student Film Festival) http://watersprite.org.uk . Our focus is on helping aspiring filmmakers to bridge the gap between fil…

I completely understand where you're coming from, Jon-Paul. I have nearly 30 years experience, but here in America, to teach at the college level your must have a Master's degree …

Hello Shooters,

I've submitted my film to a number of festivals and have just heard back from a small(er) film festival in the UK that would like to accept my film, which I'm del…

Hello Shooters,

I want to hold a cast & crew screening for my short film SKINSHIP (http://bit.ly/1qXvLb0). Does anybody have any price friendly recommendations?

Thanks,

N…

We just had a cast & crew screening for our film @ the Genesis in Whitechapel. http://www.genesiscinema.co.uk/privatehire.php

Prices will generally depend on the time of day …

Hi, Everyone.

I directed a short film called 'Hired Guns' using one location with four actors.

Hired Guns is about two hit men hired to retrieve a missing brief case. We jump in…

Jan - You sir have the right attitude.
“If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. ” - Anthony Robbins

Peter - "Just you and a couple of mates prob…

Does anyone recommend a NY-based DVD & Blu-ray mastering/duplication house? Someplace affordable but good. Thanks!

Hello

A film I've made has been accepted at a film festival who require DCP copy for sceening?

Can anybody recommend a company that can produce this? I understand there is softw…

Might be worth popping into one of your local cinemas (arthouse type the best) and ask for the chief projectionist. For a small fee he/she will probably be quite happy to do a DCP…

Sounds silly, but has anyone had any experiences related to this? You can see both sides of the argument - a short comedy might look more at home in a comedy fest, but has more co…

Many thanks!

I have run out of funds for my film so i need to try crowd funding. However I am worried if i show a trailer/teaser clip then I will be disqualified from many festivals having sho…

thanks katie and Andy for your helpful respones

Advertisement for crew in any bulletins on main forum requires specific figure as lump sum or hourly to be inserted as payment . This is the main reason which the editor gives fo…

Hey all,

I am working on a new documentary about sex education and censorship in the UK.

Am wondering how I would go about pitching this to a TV channel? I don't want to email a…

Thank you all so much for your continued answers! All really helpful!

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My new short film is playing at the film market in Palm Springs this month, i have been given a pass for the festival but dont know if it will be worth the expense. Can an…

Thank you everyone for your comments. I have booked my flights and I'm off. Thanks Pierre and Daniel for sharing your experiences and giving me some great advice. We feel we have …

I have dialog and action referencing three different tobacco brands in my screenplay.

Providing there are no negative connotations implied in the smoking of each brand, might fil…

Thanks Marlom.