So if its lets say its the Anytown International Film Festival.IFH 062: Top 5 Film Festival SCAMS Filmmakers Need to Be Aware Of.
With that said I have seen many less than honorable film festival organizers throughout the process. Or post to your blog and anywhere else you feel it would be a good fit. Thanks. Understand that I have experience with all of these services, products, and companies, and I recommend them because theyre extremely helpful and useful, not because of the small commissions I earn if you decide to buy something. The problem is staying an artist when you grow up., Pablo Picasso. Time Filmmaker Scam How To Survive AndIts the Indie Film Hustle Podcast where we show you how to survive and thrive as an indie filmmaker in the jungles of the film business and heres your host Alex Ferrari. Time Filmmaker Scam Free Film AudioTime Filmmaker Scam Download Your FreeDont forget to head over to freefilmbook.com Thats freefilmbook.com to download your free film audio book from Audible. And todays show is sponsored by Film Festival Hacks, how to submit your film like a pro and you can download that at filmfestivalhacks.com. So guys today Im going to do a special episode. I really wanted to kind of talk a little bit about this and its something I didnt talk about before but I just kind of came up to me and you know I want to talk about scams in film festivals you know Ive been in over six hundred film festivals with all of my projects over the years and believe it or not there are some unscrupulous people out there who are willing to separate you, the filmmaker from your money. Its I know its hard to believe, I know its in todays world, I really I cant believe it myself but I want to throw down a few tips for spotting a scam Film Festival. Most of them are not unscrupulous, most of them do a great job and they want to celebrate film and they want to celebrate filmmakers and they want to get the magic of cinema out there for the public but there are a few people who are out there to just make a buck. All the way up to fifty bucks for some of the bigger festivals so anywhere. Honestly that the magic numbers are twenty to fifty bucks generally speaking for short films. For feature films its going to be anywhere from thirty five bucks to seventy five bucks for features at a film festival. Unless youre doing a late submission to Sundance or something along those lines. Im going to give you a perfect example there was a New York Film Festival out years ago. For thats first step number one first of all contacts you not a good, generally not a great idea. Again unless its a legitimate Film Festival but these guys emailed me and said hey we love you to submit to our thing in New York and blah blah blah. ![]() OK great. And how much is it like a one hundred fifty dollars. I was like what like that seems extremely high like oh but youre guaranteed a screening at our festival so that basically is just theyre just paying for screening room. So years later I didnt do that one years later found out that those guys were scamming people left and right and you know they werent even playing some of the festivals. Some of. Even the smallest Film Festival the smallest local film festival are going to have some local company, some local sponsors are going to help with getting the word out on the festival helping with prizes, something like that. So it generally if you dont see sponsors who are supporting the local that festival generally means that theyre not legit. ![]() So the another tip is Festivals who like to play the game of names as they say. A lot of times a film festival will name itself something very similar to a legitimate established film festival.
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