The Film Festival Guide: For Filmakers, Film Buffs and Industry Professionals - Softcover

Langer, Adam

9781556522857: The Film Festival Guide: For Filmakers, Film Buffs and Industry Professionals

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556522851 ISBN 13: 9781556522857

Publisher: Chicago Review Press, 1998

To garner the attention and recognition that will get a film distributed, entering film festivals is a must. With more than 500 festivals worldwide, each listing features detailed information, including contact names, addresses, Web sites, entry materials, entry deadlines, and fees. Insider information for each festival is also included, such as what types of features are shown most frequently, festival reputations, noteworthy celebrity sightings, location details, and more than a dozen interviews with festival industry professionals. It includes a listing of the 16 best festivals including the hugely diverse Berlin International Film Festival, the revamped and vastly improved Chicago International Film Festival, and the Valladolid International Film Festival, where A Clockwork Orange premiered. This book also includes a handy guide for film buffs who want to plan a vacation around an interesting festival in a marvelous setting, as well as film house listings for a great escape into the dark for a movie fix.

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Review:

"It's good at last to have all this material gathered in the same place, since it is otherwise so hard to find." -- Roger Ebert, film critic

Synopsis:

Written for both filmmakers and film buffs, this guide delivers facts on more than 500 film festivals and more than 100 film houses in the USA and around the world, with information on where and when to go, what to take, and who attends and why.

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