It still surprises me that there are filmmakers unfamiliar with Withoutabox.com, the film festival submission site. You enter all of the information about your project and it allows you to select the festival you wish to submit to, you pay your entry fee and the festival gets access to all of that information you entered. […]

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This year we are proud to have 12 Fellows at Sundance. Congratulations to the following filmmakers and new media artists. Be sure to check out their work in Park City. Messages to them can be delivered by emailing mediaartists@renewmedia.org.
Dramatic Competition
Alex Rivera (1998) – with Fellowships Funded project Sleep Dealer
David Riker (1999) - as co-screenwriter […]

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Although it is almost too late to submit to SXSW (last deadline is tomorrow, Dec. 7, but hey, it’s a postmarked deadline), festival producer Matt Dentler shares some helpful tips about what to do and what not to do when submitting to his, or really any, film festival. For all you non-Sundancers, after a healthy […]

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IDFA is the largest documentary festival and market in the world. And this being my first foray to the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, things have been a bit overwhelming. But certain themes are cropping up that reflect the sign of the times, not only in documentary, but in making and disseminating art for […]

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A while back I posted a brief about the Ann Arbor Film Festival losing their state funding due to accusations that the festival was screening pornographic work. The state of Michigan took action after prompting by an essay out of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, revoking the festival’s cultural arts money. One of the […]

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