Hello all you filmmakers, directors, producers and writers out there. Listen up, because this is for YOU.
You might already know that I run several film festivals; Stratford on Avon Film Festival, Birmingham Horror Film Festival and Convention, and Envisage International Film Festival - and if you didn't, well now you do.
The vast majority of films we receive as submissions are great, BUT and it's in capitals for a reason - there are many that come into each of the festivals under the wrong category. Now we are fair and honest people, so when that happens (and because we have the luxury of running three different festivals) we try to contact the filmmaker, offer a free code to transfer their film to the correct festival and out of the one they have incorrectly sent it to. But this is time consuming for both parties and may mean that a film misses a deadline for submission.
So this is a plea to all filmmakers out there. CHECK the criteria for the festival you intend to submit to. I can't tell you how many family dramas Envisage gets, even though it is clearly marked as a sci-fi and fantasy film festival. And if you don't, and the festival will not transfer the film (unlike us) the reality is that you are likely wasting your money. So beware!
Thanks!
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