The Film Festival Doctor's Blog - Smart Ways to Achieve Film Festival Success

2023 is just around the corner and this year has seen more and more film festivals get back up and running as live events. I also saw lots of new and exciting changes happening within the festival landscape post-pandemic. With that in mind I put together a list of what I foresee as being the […]

Last week I sat down with the lovely Tania Sarra. Tania has worked as an executive in the film industry for over 12 years. As a distribution and film business expert, she has held leading roles on sales teams for UK based indies and Executive Produced their original productions. Most recently she spearheaded all the feature […]

Today I will be discussing how to get your film selected for an A-list film festival – let’s begin!Lots of filmmakers always want to screen their film an A-list festival. The A-list festivals are considered to be what is otherwise known as the ‘Top 5’ fests – Sundance, Cannes, Berlinale, Venice and TIFF (Toronto International […]

Today I’ll be sharing with you my top 10 tips for Film Festival Submissions – let’s begin!  1.First things first – know your film – before doing any submissions and diving into the world of the festival circuit ask yourself – have you got a film that festival programmers want? The best way to answer […]

Since the global pandemic began back in 2020, there has been much more of a focus upon how important it is to look after one’s mental health and this is extremely true regarding film festivals. In my previous blog about this issue I mentioned that the golden rule is to always create the right type […]

Since the pandemic began back in 2020, there has been much more of a focus upon how important it is to look after one’s mental health. Many years ago I was diagnosed with general anxiety disorder, it was pretty mild and I could carry on living my life, however it got worse in 2021 due […]