Telling Festivals you got accepted to others

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Wes-C

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Question: (please excuse my ignorance cause I'm new to Fests) My short was accepted to a film festival and I have others that I've submitted to. Does it usually hurt or help to tell some of the other fests that you were accepted? I figured it may make the film seem 'hot' or 'important'. I don't know. Any experiences?
 
Some festivals like Sundannce like to have the first exclusive showing of a film and so if the film premiered at another festival first they might not show it. So in my opinion if it is a bigger festival maybe don,t mention any smaller festivals, but if it is a smaller festival maybe mention a bigger festival it was accepted to.

-will
www.electrickchildren.com
 
Side-note... for the same reason, don't put anything on youtube until you know you're done making the festival circuit. They count youtube as a premiere, so you're instantly knocked out of any festivals that want premiere exclusivity.
 
sonofaresiii said:
Side-note... for the same reason, don't put anything on youtube until you know you're done making the festival circuit. They count youtube as a premiere, so you're instantly knocked out of any festivals that want premiere exclusivity.
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Yes. If you're going to put your film online, use Vimeo and hide it from the public. Use a password to show it only to people you choose, but still be careful.
 
Thanks! I actually have it on Vimeo password protected. Fests seem to be more flexible with shorts but I still take precaution and not put it online for public viewing.
 
Check the FAQ of every festival you enter as nearly every festival wants exclusivity based on region. Big fests want country wide premiere. Small fests want city wide premiere.
 
i run a small festival in NYC. 3rd year. 30-40 shorts, docs, features, etc... and couldn't care less about what other festivals a film has been accepted into, all films get judged by two reputable industry people and the highest scores get screened, end of story.

but that's just how i run my festival :)
 
oh and i should mention that with me, no it won't hurt to mention it, but it wont help either, seeing as it goes through the same process as any other film

one thing i can tell you that will be useless to ask of any festival is to have any different treatment, a for instance; this year when a Doc lady called up and said her doc is pending distribution and she wasn't legally able to send it out anywhere, and so she wanted me and my judges to sign an NDA or similar and return the 1 disc to her when they finished judging. and kindly told her not gonna happen. No film deserves special treatment, or else it isn't an even playing field. and since festivals get piles of submissions, spending time on any 1 film's issues is just not possible.

again, that's how i run mine, others can certainly vary.
 
What's the best way to contact a festival organizer, so they don't treat you like spam? Is email the best way? Should I start with asking them for permission to send a business offer?

I'm sending off something like this :



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Hello,
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For more info please visit http://mjstudio.ie and do not hesitate to ask.

Regards,

Me
my email
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I'm not a native english speaker and a poor advertiser so some constructive advice (especially lingual:)) would be highly appreciated. I subconsciously feel I f&^k it up at some stage.




TAC
 
honestly, unless you have something specific as well as pay someone to write proper grammatical copy for you, either my spam folder would hit it, or otherwise i would just delete it. no matter how you want to look at it you're soliciting, and it's not smiled upon
 
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