Film Festivals

Tropfest is an Australian based short film festival that claims to be the largest short film festival in the world. Based in New South Wales, the festival showcases films seven minutes or shorter...

Promoting your work is one of the most important parts if you want to be successful. You can have the most artful and important message in the world within your film, but if nobody sees it, it...

Winning an Academy Award is a difficult task that takes extreme dedication, skill and luck. The documentary filmmaking industry is filled with Oscar hopefuls just waiting to get a piece of the...

Attending the Sundance Film Festival screenings offers a film student, teacher or enthusiast a chance to experience the film promotion madness in a small mountain town called Park City. Seeing a...

Entering a film in the Sundance Film Festival is a heady experience, headier still if your film is chosen to be aired and it wins an award. Filmmakers from around the world are able to enter films...

Being featured in the Sundance film festival is a great honor. Yet, only a handful of good films and good film writers are featured there each year. Where does that leave the rest of the good...

While film festivals are great to attend, they can be pretty expensive. There are tickets to buy and other activities or parties that are tempting. But, there are a few free film festivals out...

Indie films are "independent" films, meaning they are not produced by the large film companies. The films shown as "independent" are often done in ideas where filmmakers finance the project...

Every January, Park City, Utah, comes alive when the biggest stars in Hollywood roll in for the Sundance Film Festival. Originally started by Robert Redford to celebrate the artistic process of...

I've been going to an annual Academy Awards party for over ten years and I love not only the fabulous spread of food and liquor my friends put out... I love the prizes I often win. Many times I've...