Filmmakers

Key considerations include how much assistance a festival provides to traveling filmmakers; recent premieres at the festival; opportunities to meet distributors, fans, fellow filmmakers and press; and whether festivals are Academy-qualifying.

What we want to do is to be able to connect indie filmmakers internationally and allow people to have a platform that lets filmmakers and viewers get into other markets.

An early champion of women filmmakers, in 1972 Myles created a series of debates and screenings at EIFF titled The Women’s Event, focused entirely on the work of female filmmakers.

It was an incredible year for queer filmmakers pushing boundaries (yes, I still need to watch Louise Weard’s ) and filmmakers who aren’t white men trying to make their mark on the genre through their own unique visions of terror.

Sharing a word of wisdom for filmmakers the Gehraiyaan actor also said that the only hope for Hindi cinema to gain its lost glory is if filmmakers stop seeing it as a means of making money.

This year, three renowned filmmakers—Wathann Film Festival director Ma Thu Thu Shein and award-winning filmmakers Ko Nagyi and Ma Moe Myat May Zarchi—served as the judges, choosing the five award winners.

Some filmmakers also feel that the MPAA, which represents the concerns of the major movie studios, is harsher and less helpful to independent filmmakers than to people working within their system.

Also, Nigerian filmmakers usually feature Ghanaian actors and actresses in their movies and Ghanaian filmmakers feature Nigerian actors and actresses in theirs.

Entry fee While entries from established filmmakers are usually considered pluses by the organizers, most festivals require new or relatively unknown filmmakers to pay an entry fee to have their works considered for screening.

The SNOB (Somewhat North Of Boston) Film Festival, started in the fall of 2002, brings independent films and filmmakers to Concord and has provided an outlet for local filmmakers to display their films.

This spawned controversy over the benefits and disadvantages of digital cinematography that continues as more filmmakers "convert" to digital filmmaking while many filmmakers oppose it.

A lot of the issues of the film come from the filmmakers’ blind spots — after a decade of white male lead characters, the film should have given other characters the limelight.

An award-winning media course has united aspiring student filmmakers and resulted in benefits that go beyond book learning at Freeport Area High School.

And I guess I wonder if, spending time on a festival circuit, you actually get to see people’s films and talk to the filmmakers.

Appropriately, for a story about apprenticeship, Kore-eda also used the project as an opportunity to mentor three young filmmakers.

Besson and the many other filmmakers behind had an entire science fiction universe that they had to generate from the ground up.

BIOSKOP Short Film Competition: Celebrate the creativity of Zimbabwean filmmakers.

Birmingham Film Festival is the UK’s largest independent film festival and brings thousands of filmmakers and cinema buffs to the region in a 10-day celebration of moviemaking.

But even when filmmakers—who are notably not teens themselves—try to well-meaningly portray such a tender experience as adolescent sexual awakening, the results can be pretty problematic.

But there's a real charm to -- you can feel the fun the filmmakers are having.