Locarno Film Festival has become a prestigious event for 64 years. The festival is held every year in August for 11 days in the Swiss-Italian town of Locarno. That’s when the momentum is gathering thousands of film fans and film industry players in a shade of medieval town located on the shores of Lake [...]
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| Chris Gore writes a book referred to as “The Ultimate Movie Festival Survival Guide”. Inside first 10 pages of your book, he talks about going to Roll film Festivals all over the world and enjoying every single one of them. Whether you are a movie aficionado or a filmmaker with a motion picture entered, a video pageant is an exciting experience and one you will wish to repeat as generally as feasible. There was a time when video festivals had been far and several between. Studios controlled just about every single aspect to filmmaking and not much of an independent spirit to get found anyplace. It appears to have said that, with the rise of Indie movies that each state in the nation has it’s very own roll film festival. In California alone there ought to be twenty or more roll film festivals showing everything this side of phantom of the opera, London. The International Film Festival Rotterdam is widely reputed among the most important events in the film industry. It’s seen as being a prestigious event as Cannes, Venice, Berlin, and Locarno. On the 40th anniversary of the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2011 which will go on January 26 to February 6, 2011. The IFFR will [...] A creative mind is a low budget filmmaker’s most valuable tool. It all starts with an original thought; from there it is all about nurturing that thought until it grows to be a brilliant idea. After that it is a matter of getting that idea made into a movie using every ounce of energy and resources you can possibly muster up. Most of the successful films that are showing at film festivals these days are movies that were made at a fraction of the cost that it takes to make a major Hollywood studio film. Advances in technology have made it so that just about anyone can make a movie. Film cameras, video cameras, sound recording equipment, and just about any other kind of equipment that one needs to make a movie can be purchased at very affordable prices these days. The equipment that is available these days can provide a very low budget movie with a production value that looks like James Cameron had something to do with the project. This professional look coupled with a unique story can help any film’s chances at being accepted into film festivals like Houston Worldfest, Cannes, Toronto Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, etc… Continue reading Creativity is King in The World of Independent Filmmaker |     | |||
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