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This workshop is a 1-day workshop and provides a breakdown of navigating the international film festival circuit as a filmmaker, in addition to the SVOD streaming & distribution opportunities for both feature & short films. Intended for both emerging & mid-career artists, festivals and their many intricacies will be demystified with the intent of equipping filmmakers of any kind with incisive strategies to disseminate their film in the most suitable forms. The workshop thus unfurls the following:
Profiling both your film and festivals to find the ideal fit Building a submission workflow to construct an effective and precise workflow for one’s outreach to festivals Developing correspondence strategies typically needed in order to get your film assessed Determining which screening opportunities may not be worth your time An overview of streaming services and their curatorial sensibility & payment structures A summary of Canadian film distributors and the profile of their film slates ** THIS IS A HYBRID WORKSHOP, JOIN US ONLINE OR IN-PERSON **
Instructor: Kurt Walker Kurt Walker (b. 1990) is an award-winning filmmaker from Vancouver, B.C. He makes movies concerned with place, experience, and connection. In 2014 his debut feature film Hit 2 Pass won doclisboa’s Universidade Lusíada Award for Best International Competition Feature-Length Film award. More recently, his short film I Thought the World of You received the Prix Dada National Award at the 51st edition of Festival du nouveau cinema. American film critic Michael Sicinski dubbed his sophomore feature s01e03 as “a film [that] manages to go right to the heart of one of the defining cultural crises of the era.” Kurt is also a former film curator and worked as a programming manager for the prestigious international streaming platform MUBI. He is now based in Toronto, ON. where he is developing a new feature film. |
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| Office Hours: Weekdays 10:00 - 17:00 ☎ 416.603.6564 Fax: 416.603.6566 76 Geary Avenue Toronto, Ontario M6H 2B5 Canada |
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