ASK & DISCUSS INDEX

11 years, 11 months ago - Catsnake Film

I've been collecting data on 10,000 film festivals and have published the results at http://stephenfollows.com/film-festivals-pt1-the-truths-behind-film-festivals/

The main findings were...

* There are around active 3,000 film festivals
* 9,706 film festivals have run at least once in the last 15 years
* 75% of all film festivals were created in the last ten years
* 2009 was the peak year for new festivals
* 2012 had the lowest number of new festivals launched for 14 years
* 39% of film festivals only ever run once
* 71% of film festivals screen short films and 52% screen feature films
* Half of all film festivals run for less than 7 days
* North America hosts 70% of the world’s film festivals
* October is the busiest month (five times as many as December)

My next two blog posts will follow what film festivals directors think (first the data, then the stories).

http://stephenfollows.com/film-festivals-pt1-the-truths-behind-film-festivals/

Thanks!
Stephen
http://www.twitter.com/stephenfollows