Film Festival Secrets Podcast
Podcast by Christopher Holland
Episodes
April 24, 2017 • 13 mins
Bonus episode - Kristjan Knigge talks about his experiences with his first feature film
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May 5, 2016 • 89 mins
Brad Wilke (@jbwilke) is an award-winning filmmaker, produced feature-length screenwriter, and film programmer for the Seattle International Film Festival.
At his company Smarthouse Creative, Brad designs and executes digital and social media strategies for films and filmmakers, as well as film festivals and brands.
In this episode I talk with Brad about about his passion for discovering new talent and we answer some burning fil...
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March 29, 2016 • 53 mins
Veteran filmmaker, teacher, and fundraiser Mark Stolaroff takes a pause in the middle of the Kickstarter campaign for his new film “DriverX” to reflect on his filmmaking career and the psychology of asking friends and strangers for money. Mark is the creator of the "No Budget Film School” seminars and a role model to many indie filmmakers. See the show notes here: http://www.filmfestivalsecrets.com/ffs/podcast-36
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March 22, 2016 • 6 mins
Are you being offered the "festival rights" to the music in your film at a discount? It's a trap! Find out why the deal you're being offered might not be the best option for you.
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February 5, 2016 • 38 mins
Jen West and James Martin are partners in life, partners in filmmaking (they alternate between directing and producing on each film), and partners in a string of successful crowdfunding projects.
Now they face a new challenge -- distributing their most recent completed film (a doc short about a famous New Orleans cocktail) online and on the festival circuit while raising funds for the next film. The new project is their first fea...
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February 2, 2016 • 9 mins
Excerpted from their online course “Film Festival Hacks,” Alex Ferrari (Indie Film Hustle) and host Chris Holland talk about the career building and networking opportunities to be found at film festivals.
http://filmfestivalhacks.com
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January 26, 2016 • 11 mins
In this episode: Chris Holland talks about the legwork of creating a festival strategy, in particular the research you should be doing about the festivals you think you want to submit to. Things like:
* What things can tell me if the festival I'm looking at is legit or not?
* How can I tell if this festival is appropriate for my film?
* How can I make the most of my time on the web?
* What are the red flags that might make me th...
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January 22, 2016 • 30 mins
After several hours of recording lectures for our new online course (more details in the show), filmmaker Alex Ferrari and I had a more casual conversation about his personal experience with festivals around the country and in industry towns like Los Angeles.
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December 20, 2015 • 9 mins
Sometimes filmmakers face the classic "bird in the hand" problem. Case in point: my friend Amy's short film "Pickle" was accepted by one festival, but her "dream date" festival is still on the fence. That's a problem, because showing at the first festival to extend an offer might lessen the dream festival's interest. Should she go ahead with the sure thing, or wait for her dream festival to make up its mind?
See http://filmfestiv...
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December 10, 2015 • 53 mins
This episode I'm joined by Richard Gale, creator of the short film "The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon," which is on its way to becoming a feature film thanks to a healthy festival run and a rabid YouTube fan base. Learn how Gale turned festival success into a cottage industry and a budget for a feature-length horror comedy.
For show notes see http://www.filmfestivalsecrets.com/podcast/29
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October 23, 2015 • 10 mins
Some quick tips on narrowing the field of possible festival choices down to the film fests that are right for your film.
See http://www.filmfestivalsecrets.com/identity for more on this topic.
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October 12, 2015 • 8 mins
As the new season of the podcast gets started, Chris explains what’s been going on since the crowdfunding campaign ended and what happens next.
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September 22, 2015 • 58 mins
Chris Holland sits down with Bodine and Alexis Boling, creators of "Movement and Location."
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July 27, 2015 • 60 mins
Ever wonder about the selection process at South by Southwest? Programmer Jarod Neece gives us a peek behind the curtain.
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July 7, 2015 • 50 mins
The second episode of the new season of the Film Festival Secrets podcast! See getmoresecrets.com to learn how you can listen in on future recordings.
Many thanks to Seed&Spark and FilmFreeway for their early support of the podcast's new season.
Joining me this week are Kenny Blank, Executive Director of the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival and Shellie Schmals, AJFF's Program Manager. We explore the special challenges faced by Jewish...
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June 24, 2015 • 61 mins
The first episode of the new season of the Film Festival Secrets podcast! See getmoresecrets.com to learn how you can listen in on future recordings.Jon Gann is the founder of the DC Film Alliance, a non-profit organization supporting Washington, DC's film and video community, and the creator of the DC Shorts Film Festival - one of the country's premier short film showcases. Jon is also a filmmaker and the author of "Behind the Scr...
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March 19, 2015 • 27 mins
Since meeting filmmaker and startup founder Emily Best in November I've wanted to get her on the podcast to talk about her company Seed and Spark, which reimagines crowdfunding from the perspective of an indie filmmaker and takes the experience way past fundraising into audience building and distribution.
In this episode you'll hear Emily tell the story of how the company got started and her vision for making it a touchstone of th...
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February 12, 2015 • 77 mins
Biagio Messina, co-producer and director of "Dying to Do Letterman" and the Producing Unscripted podcast, joins Chris Holland and guest co-host Charles Judson (former creative director of the Atlanta Film Festival) for a conversation about Kickstarter, marketing, and the funny side of cancer. This episode has some of the best crowdfunding and film marketing advice I've ever encountered — I'm just sorry it took this long to release ...
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December 10, 2014 • 45 mins
This episode is a bit of a blast from the past -- it's one of several interviews about crowdfunding I recorded about this time last year during the Atlanta Film Festival's first Kickstarter campaign. (The second campaign is happening as I write this, please do [check it out](http://atlantafilmfestival.com/fund).) The episode didn't get edited and published in time for the end of that campaign, so now you get to travel to the past t...
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November 19, 2014 • 42 mins
Guests: When Julie Keck & Jessica King (collectively known as "King is a Fink") tell you that they are social media experts, they can do so with straight faces. These filmmakers and writers just released a new book, Social Media Charm School (now available at Amazon.com). Chris asks them to speak in sentences with fewer than 140 characters as they talk about the interplay of social media with audience building, crowdfunding, and ce...
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