ASK & DISCUSS INDEX

12 years, 10 months ago - Nicholas Beveney

Myfestivaloffice worked great for me, targets the right audience according to your film. Rungano runs it with a business partner found them very useful.

12 years, 10 months ago - Nicholas Beveney

Myfestivaloffice worked great for me, targets the right audience according to your film. Rungano runs it with a business partner found them very useful.

12 years, 10 months ago - Helen Jack

http://www.thefilmfestivaldoctor.co.uk/

12 years, 10 months ago - Harriet Fleuriot

I hear that this person is very good - http://www.katiemccullough.co.uk/Distribution.html

12 years, 10 months ago - Shoaib Vali

I actually worked with the above person, Rebekah a.k.a film festival doc, she's quite efficient, albiet a little pricey but she did manage to get my film out there, I'm a lazy git, I just like to make stuff and it ends up sitting on my pc so she was well helpful, give her a call, she should give you good advice and create a plan for a year or 2 if all goes well, all the best.

12 years, 10 months ago - Shoaib Vali

Thanks for your insight Martin, having made a feature (btw which looks great upon watching its trailer), and getting or beginning to get into festivals, did you write/create the feature like how you wanted or you did it so as to it sits well with festival goers? or is the combination of the two? Ofcourse, the end point of all films is to get it shown to as many as people one can (at relevant festivals ofcourse), but in terms of an artistic expression, I wonder if its worth the effort to change one's vision just to get it into to those festivals, only to find out, that its actually a pain and realising after it was not worth the changes.

12 years, 10 months ago - Manjeet Gill

Try My Festival Office http://www.myfestivaloffice.com/

12 years, 10 months ago - Ross Leeson

Try googling withoutabox its a website that facilitates this service.

12 years, 10 months ago - Martin Wallace

I've never used one but Search "PMD" or Producer of Marketing and Distribution. I think you'd need to start knowing clearly how much you can afford to spend on fees + materials. You'd also need to pin down a range of reasonable expectations (high/med/low) about the outcomes you require. You need someone who totally understands your film's strengths and weaknesses and how these position it in the ever changing landscape (ie pecking order) of festivals. Even highly financed campaigns either a) don't work/happen or b) are misguided/misjudged. It's all speculative.
Martin
http://www.smallcreaturesfilm.co.uk

12 years, 10 months ago - Martin Wallace

Truth is getting into fests is more a slog than a trick. Nobody's going to do that for you without charging a fair bit. Add to that the previous point about needing to totally understand what your film is and where it might fit in.... it does tend to point back to you as the filmmaker.

12 years, 10 months ago - Matthew Butler-Hart

I met a woman recently who's company does that as well as building a package to make sure your film goes to the right festivals for your project. She's the Film Festival Doctor. I haven't used them yet but will be doing soon. If anyone else out there has, maybe let us know how it went... Hope that helps. http://www.thefilmfestivaldoctor.co.uk/

12 years, 10 months ago - Cheryl White

Thank you all for your very useful answers. I do know myfestivaloffice - met them once, lovely people - but their website hasn't been updated since January so I thought they'd stopped the service.

Nicholas - have you used them recently?

And thanks for the other suggestions. If I start working with one, I'll post up my experience here.

Cheers
Cheryl.

12 years, 10 months ago - Cheryl White

Thanks Shoaib - I did speak with Rebekah but as you say, a little on the pricey side.

12 years, 10 months ago - Cheryl White

I meant to add - for my budget.