Festival Programmer’s Confidential – A workshop for independent filmmakers

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DATE: Saturday June 26; TIME: 5:00PM-7:00PM

Instructor: Linda Blackaby
Workshop Location:
Scribe Video Center
4212 Chestnut Street
3rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Fee: $25. $20 for Scribe and PIFVA members

After a mighty effort, you are nearing completion of your film and starting to face what’s next: How to send it out into the world.

Perhaps you’ve developed a distribution strategy, but are now confronted by a bewildering number of diverse film festivals. This workshop will provide an overview of the film festival world, how festival programmers make their decisions, discuss some general things about film festivals you need to understand, and present strategies for navigating a course that’s best for you and your film.

Presented in partnership with PIFVA.org

Linda Blackaby is an internationally respected media arts programmer, executive and specialist in community engagement in the media arts. She has been Director of Programming for the San Francisco Film Festival/San Francisco International Film Festival, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and Co-Director of Programming for the Hamptons International Film Festival. Blackaby moved to San Francisco from Philadelphia where she was the founder and Director of the Neighborhood Film/Video Project for 22 years. She was also the Founding Director of the very successful Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema