Many filmmakers invest their entire limited budget into filmmaking. They ignore an equally important part of the process. that is Find your audience and marketing. So only about 10,000 people watch their movie It should be a million people.
Emerging filmmakers put all their energy into making their films, but don’t put in the effort to find an audience because they don’t like sales and marketing. Today I want to focus on some very Cheap marketing for film festivals.
When you’ve finished your short or feature film, you’ll need to put the film into a window.
Short film “Window”
- Window 1 – Film Festival – 6 – 9 months
- Window 2 – High quality sites such as Shorts International and Short of the Week 3 – 6 months
- Window 3 Facebook – YouTube – Vimeo and have a small advertising budget to invite people to watch the movie. This way it can go viral.
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- Window 1 Film Festival 6 – 9 months
- Window 2 Sales Distribution – 3 Year Exclusive Contract. – Partner with reputable film distributors – Monetize
- Windows 3 If your dealer is great, keep working with them. If not find a new one and get the most out of your movie. Passive income should be generated quarterly for many years.
When you make a short or feature film, The first thing is exposure. Make sure film industry VIPS notice you too. It’s worth its weight in gold.
Window 1 Film Festival is the starting point for every short or feature film. Today we will focus on it.
When attending a film festival, Using the Movie Highway website. This is an amazing all-in-one website to manage your film festival entries, selections and awards. Film Freeway has another very important tool. Marketing plan.
You can browse the website and it will lead you to the festival. You must set a Project page for your movie Trailers and posters. Both the trailer and poster are relatively easy to create and I will outline how to do it in a post in the near future.
After setting up the page, you have to upload a movie or set it up on Vimeo and enter the video link. Don’t use YouTube. Vimeo is my go-to site for all my movies and videos, it’s high quality and has more control over settings.
Now comes the important part. You submit your movie Only for IMDB accredited film festivals. Email the festival to check if they are. IMDB approved. These are all film festivals worth attending.
Once you are successfully selected and recognized by IMDB for a film festival, you can easily create your own personal IMDB profile. Whichever IMDB Film Festival you are selected for, you can add it to your profile to build your credibility as a filmmaker. IMDB profiles are crucial to your film career.
Finally, marketing. Film Freeway has a number of different marketing offers, ranging from $15 per day to $150 for emails to each festival director and selector.
This is very cheap marketing cost. Film festivals will now see your trailers, posters and films. As a result of marketing, the festival will offer you 50% and 80% discounts on festival entrance fees. This will save you a lot of money When you go to 30-50 film festivals next year. Marketing is critical and essential.
Please see Screenshot of Film Freeway Marketing Services. I have no affiliation or connection with Film Freeway. But I do admire their website and what they do for independent filmmakers.
So if you want to get Expose your negatives, focus on First is the film festival and Promote movies.
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