🎬 Film Festival Tips We Share ONLY with Our Clients 🎬

Published: Tue, 05/03/22

Hi ,

We all love to talk a good Cannes & Sundance game, but, really what's the likelihood a first time filmmaker without an A list celeb or huge financial backing is getting into those?

Here at FilmProposals, we have a secret way of identifying the exact right film festivals for your film and significantly increasing your chances of both acceptance and prizes.

How to Win Film Festivals

We start with our proprietary database of almost 400 independent films, which we use to pick our comparable films for our Revenue Projections. When we pick our Comps, we go by budget and genre, so we're as close as possible to other films like ours.

Now, let's say Beach Rats was one of my comparable films. It was made for less than $1M and is similar to my genre and theme. Now I head to the Beach Rats IMDB page which shows all 12 wins and 16 nominations - BINGO! This is my film's jam right here...

American Film Festival
Americana Film Fest
Casting Society of America
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics

and so many more! You do that for your 3-20 Comparable Films, create your chart of most nominations and wins across all your comps, and you know exactly where to focus your festival time, money and energy.

And you know exactly how to complete the festival part of your Marketing Section in your Business Plan - it's like it writes itself! I promise, you don't need to reinvent the wheel here. Learn from the BEST and use our 22+ years experience working with filmmakers.

You then use your noms and wins to earn prize money, get publicity, announce to your social media and watch your audience start flocking to your film. You can even do this exact same process to find out more about the audiences of your Comp Films and how they were earned. How did the previous successful filmmakers target their audience? Research all the articles with the filmmakers you can find (they are always interviewed at Film Festivals) - there's always gold nuggets in there!

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