Film Festival Strategies

About this session

Festival Formula is the leading film festival strategy consultancy and submission service in Europe. They focus on helping filmmakers navigate the world-wide circuit, by targeting the right festivals to submit their films, increasing their probabilities of acceptances and helping them save time effortlessly. Drawing on extensive experience in the industry, Festival Formula creates bespoke strategies tailored to the budget and assets of each film. This session will be based around finding your place within the circuit, exploring today’s landscape whilst offering advice on how to maximise your festival selections.

About Katie McCullough

Festival Formula has Katie's 18+ years, and growing, experience behind it. They are an active member of the Short Film Conference and one of the few UK members of the Film Festival Alliance. Katie is also a key spokesperson on festival issues with coverage in The Hollywood Reporter and Screen Daily regarding suspect and fraudulent film festivals. She co-created the Filmmaker Lounge in partnership with Film Festival Alliance – an online space for programmers and filmmakers to discuss their roles as a regular online event, previous guests include: Tribeca, Slamdance, Heartland Film, PÖFF Shorts, and many more.

Practical Information

This session will take place online from 6.30pm until 7.45pm (GMT)

Schedule
6.30pm–7.30pm: presentation/discussion
7.30pm-7.45pm: audience Q&A

Participants will receive the link to this session a few days ahead of the event.