Louis McCullagh B.Sc ABIPP DPAGB

Director - Writer - Photographer

Film Festival Lists/Links.

Festivals

I've been asked a lot about festivals in Europe (outside USA actually). So here are some good links to the festivals which are mostly free to enter or maybe $15 max.

I have been to a few festivals, the stand out ones are Cork(Ire), ReelHeART (Can), FilmStock(Eng) and Phoenix(USA) and the Los Angeles Irish Film Festival. Galway is also good, another festival who were very helpful to me was Heart of Gold(Australia). Links for all of them are below.

To enter festivals I recommend using the following websites which work like Withoutabox but no where near as costly.

  • Shortfilmdepot. Free entry to fests in Iran, Japan, Brazil, Germany, Italy etc. Here.
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  • Reelport. Mostly free entries to festivals around the world. They have very low charges for their services but allow you to set up details of 3 shorts absolutely free. They also require you to either download your film or send them a DVD which they then digitise (and rights manage) so that festivals can view your film on line (or download it). Once set up it is incredibly easy to submit your film to a fest. I've only just started using this and I had to send them a dvd as the upload didn't work for my second short. Here.
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  • Withoutabox Has a very active messageboard section for all your questions. Here.
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Most other European festivals work through written submissions (entry form downloaded from website) or online submission via their own website.

In general they are not too good about contacting you and many will not contact you if you are not selected. Some discourage contact, require premiere status or only screen international films if they are 35mm. Some have huge entries of 1,000s of shorts so the competition is very stiff.

 

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