Complete Filmmaker's Guide to Film Festivals
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Complete Filmmaker's Guide to Film Festivals by Rona Edwards
The first step-by-step How To guide to film festivals, offering filmmakers a bird s eye view of what it takes to have a successful festival experience. Practical, hands-on information with examples and exercises to help the filmmaker include:
Targeting the right festivals;
Creating a press kit;
Promoting and branding your film;
Promoting and branding yourself;
Filling out entry forms;
Creating a logline;
And much more.
RONA EDWARDS worked as Vice President of Creative Affairs for Emmy-winner John Larroquette (Night Court), Academy-Award Winner Michael Phillips (Close Encounters Of The Third Kind) and Emmy-winner Fern Field (Monk) before she becoming an independent producer.Her producing credits include: One Special Victory (NBC) starring Larroquette, The Companion (USA/SCI FI CHANNEL) directed by Gary Fleder, I Know What You Did (ABC), Out Of Sync (VH1), & Der Morder Meiner Mutter (Sat.1/Studio Hamburg) for German television.She set up a number of feature films including Matchmakers at Warner Bros. & produced the movie, Blind Trust for Lifetime.In addition, she produced two movies for Lifetime based upon a series of books she optioned by Ellen Byerrum entitled Killer Hair and Hostile Makeover (Crime of Fashion mysteries).Edwards has had projects made or in development with many of the major networks & studios.She is an accomplished journalist, having published numerous articles in both print & on the net for the past 15 years covering a wide range of subject matter from entertainment & film to human interest & travel.As an Assistant Professor at Chapman University's Singapore campus teaching a wide variety of subjects in Creative Producing for four years, she currently teaches at Chapman in Orange, CA. With Monika Skerbelis, she co-founded ESE FILM WORKSHOPS ONLINE, global online courses, providing professional instruction without leaving your home and together they wrote I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out and The Complete Filmmakers Guide to Film Festivals: Your All Access Pass to Launching your Film on the Festival Circuit. MONIKA SKERBELIS is a former Vice President of Creative and Executive Story Editor for Universal Pictures' story department.Prior to Universal, she was Story Editor for 20th Century Fox & began her career as an assistant in the Story Department for Paramount Pictures.She is a programming director for The American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival & was the artistic & programming director for the Big Bear Lake International Film Festival for 14 years. Skerbelis teaches feature film development at UCLA Extension, Riverside City College, and also taught Basic Screenwriting at Chapman University.A producer with ES Entertainment, she Associate Produced on Killer Hair & Hostile Makeover for Lifetime Television. Both authors are members of the Producers Guild of America.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781615930883 |
| ISBN 10 | 1615930884 |
| Title | Complete Filmmaker's Guide to Film Festivals |
| Author | Rona Edwards |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Michael Wiese Productions |
| Year published | 2012-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 362 |
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