Filmmaking, Festival Strategy and Could-Get-You-Arrested Material with SYDNEY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL

Selecting films for an underground film festival comes with a more open perspective than festival programmers usually imagine. Katherine Berger, Festival Director of the 9th Sydney Underground Film Festival, wants films with an edge.”[…] just look at our past programming and know we aren’t the one to program your polite, heartfelt Bambi pic!’ We talked […]

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6 Attempts at Defining ‘Underground’ with the CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL

MovieMaker Magazine just listed the Chicago Underground Film Festival as one of the coolest underground film festivals in the world*. Artistic Director Bryan Wendorf didn’t want to define the word ‘underground’. That made us even more curious so we tried it anyways. Is your film ‘underground’ enough to submit… DEADLINE • 15 December 2013   1. […]

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FANTASTIC FEST

  Today we spoke to Kristen Bell, Festival Director of the  9th FANTASTIC FEST DEADLINE  • 29 May 2013     This year we have reduced the number of people viewing the festival submissions and are really steering the focus on finding the best genre features and shorts out there. We also tightened our submission deadlines so that we would […]

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