Film Festivals: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly..

The Film Festival is the coveted rite of passage that every filmmaker must pass through. Film Festivals are one of the sacred combination locks we much attempt to crack, and honestly, we need to do it with limited funds. How can you do that? Networking, Planning, and Time. How does that work..? Listen in and find out from our first hand experiences of submitting, attending and vending at film festivals. Don't forget, this Friday, January 13th, come on out to the Macabre Faire Film Festival in Ronkonkoma, NY and catch the premiere of our newest feature length psychological horror film, Theta States! Beyond that, Lindsay will be hosting a panel on Pre-Production, Friday at 6pm: Homework Before The Filming Begins, as well as a panel on Women In Media alongside Jennifer Valdes, Deana Demko, Gail Wisun-Gooch, Kell Rae LeGault, Debra Markowitz, Beatrice Sniper and Christina Raia. Then on Sunday, Manny will be on a panel with fellow filmmaker Patrick Devaney, discussing Cinematography at noon. Tickets are available at MacabreFaireFilmFest.com Subscribe to the Filmmaking Sucks Podcast on iTunes, and please rate and review us! You can also email us at [email protected] with your feedback and questions. The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide. -Keanu Reeves