It’s a sad story behind the Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant – a filmmaker’s life was cut short by a heart attack. “His friends, family and colleagues established this development grant to help other emerging filmmakers reach their potential.” The grant funds travel and accomodation to attend the Full Frame Documentary Festival. Applications are due [...]

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Documentary magazine editor Tom White pointed me to a great article by filmmaker Paul Devlin over at The Independent. Devlin has a new film, BLAST!, that he launched at this year’s HotDocs. He shares his experiences navigating the festival experience with valuable insight:
Festival programmers want virgins. So choose wisely where your film is going to [...]

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indieWIRE reports today that indeed Film Arts Foundation is no more. I took a look in the archives here at Resources to see when it was that I posted about it. April 29. I know that there were strong efforts in the San Fransisco community to keep the organization’s demise from happening, and it looks [...]

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It still surprises me that there are filmmakers unfamiliar with Withoutabox.com, the film festival submission site. You enter all of the information about your project and it allows you to select the festival you wish to submit to, you pay your entry fee and the festival gets access to all of that information you entered. [...]

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The Sundance submission deadline has passed; SXSW is looming (early: Nov. 16; late: Dec. 7). But thousands of films are made each year, and many are not appropriate for these big, industry-driven (read: sales) showcases. Don’t get me wrong… submit your film to your dream festival, because, hey, you never know! If you don’t get [...]

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[Eds. note: This post is the first of several from filmmakers and programmers who are asked to address the value of the regional festival experience.]
Outside of my life as a Programmer for the Sarasota Film Festival, I’ve always been heavily invested in community building. I discovered last year that my attraction to film festivals [...]

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