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 Chris Gore's Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide Fouth Edition: The Essential Companion for Filmmakers and Festival-Goers (Chris Gore's Ultimate Flim Festival Survival Guide) $21.95 The guerrilla guide to marketing and selling an indie film. Some people are just there for the loot bags. But most of the people at a film festival are trying to market and sell an independent film. Dont be just one of the horde. Use Chris Gores Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide to help your indie film stand out! Entertainment Weekly loves Gores book, calling it a treatise on schmoozing, bullying, and otherwise weaseling one's way into the cinematic madness known as film festivals. The newly revised and updated fourth edition includes full listings for more than 1,000 film festivals, with complete tips and contact information, plus in-depth analysis of the Big Ten festivals. With detailed, fresh how-tos for marketing, distributing, and selling a film and using websites to build buzz, plus interviews with top festival filmmakers, step-by-steps on what to do after your film gets accepted, and explanations of how to distribute a film, Chris Gores guide tells filmmakers exactly how to become a player in the indie world. Chris Gores Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide includes complete listings for more than 1,000 festivals?find the best for indie, documentary, short, student, digital, and animation, and a CD-ROM!  Film Festivals: From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia (Amsterdam University Press - Film Culture in Transition) $49.95 The film festival has come a long way from its relatively humble origins in Venice in 1932?when nine nations presented twenty-five feature films screened in an open-air cinema where men had to adhere to standards of formal evening attire. Hugely popular events that attract diverse lovers of cinema worldwide, todays most famous film festivals?Cannes, Berlin, Venice, and Rotterdam?continue the story of a phenomenon that began in the midst of geopolitical disputes in war-torn Europe. Film Festivals shows how these festivals turned impediments into advantages and developed a successful global network that addresses issues as diverse as programming and prizes, national legitimation, city marketing, cinephilia, glamour, and audience. Discussing the festival as a media event and looking closer at various festival visitors, this volume also questions whether successful is in fact the appropriate term for understanding developments that could be considered dogmatic in their insistence on framing filmmakers as auteurs and films as belonging to new waves. An essential title for everyone interested in the culture, politics, and history that surround the celebration of cinema, Film Festivals proves that the movies are still our greatest?and most fted?escape  Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide $21.95 I have not read this book completely but what I did read looks very good and informative. |
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