Last November, I published an article about fake festivals. In this post I differentiate between the false festivals and others that, while still maintaining some of its characteristics, are not in the strictest sense. This second group has characteristics of the rest of festivals, take their form, but basically they are not. We can not consider them false, since somehow […]
Take care of your bio-filmography as a director.
There are promotional materials that are essential for starting to promote a film, especially those related to the director: such as the photograph, a copy of the ID (or passport), the filmography, and the bio-filmography. Sometimes it seems that not much importance is given to the bio-filmography, and it is confused with a résumé or […]
How to avoid fake festivals
A few weeks ago I spoke with Chema Garcia Ibarra and Álex Montoya about the proliferation of fake festivals . Both have a lot of experience in distributing their own films and know film festival circuit well. They were worried about the number of «festivals» of this type that have emerged recently. I have been observing fake festivals for a […]