Rodrigo Moreno-Fernandez is a Mexican born filmmaker who moved into Texas and invested everything he had into film, with his wife firmly at his side and with 2 films under his belt, he now moves onto his next project the short horror film Strings. In this episode Rodrigo shares his valuable advance to filmmaker following his time on the circuit. 

In todays episode, Spencer talks to Alasdair MacKay about his movie Anonymous, a film currently on the circuit that focuses on addiction. They talk about the highs and lows of the circuit and what festivals could do better. 

Kelly Smith has a number of films under his directorship and a history of working on films like The Queen, Frankly, In Bruges and History Boys. This week Spencer caught up with Kelly to talk about his time on the film festival circuit as he prepares to once again venture onto it with his latest film The Fallen woman. 

In this episode Spencer Hawken runs through a series of handy hints about how to choose which film festival to submit to. Then in an archive interview  recorded at the Romford Film Festival in 2021 Spencer caught up with the creative director of Evolutionary Films Ross Boyask and ask him how filmmakers can make their film more attractive to film buyers.

In this show Spencer talks to Peter Blunden about the film festivals he has worked on, the importance of submitting to film festivals and how to avoid those school boy/girl errors. 

In the first episode of The Film Festival Insider host Spencer talks about his journey into film, his film festival experience, why he set up a film festival and why he is the film festival insider.