I think it’s a mistake to apply to a film festival without them soliciting your film. There are creative ways to get on the map of the festival without blindly sending a DVD that an intern watches for ten minutes while they’re checking their facebook page.
I’m not sure we have a strategy, per se [...]
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stories from the front lines
Filmmaker Archive for: Robert Byington
RE: MANAGING EXPECTATIONS ON THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT
RSO Soldiers on to 2009
I was watching Adaptation on cable last night (at least till the reflexive third act denouement/collapse), and wondering why people watch movies. I do it to reinforce things I think about myself as a filmmaker. I rarely have a good time at a big budget movie, because I’m filtering a lot of my experience through [...]
On the Road with RSO
I remember a friend telling me when he saw Rushmore he felt like the filmmakers had figured out a way to put their yearning to tell a good story into the story itself, that aching hope, that desire to make a good movie, they’d managed to put that in the movie, without making a movie [...]
Registered Sex Offender
One of the things that attracted me to the tour was the recent series of indications that filmmakers ought to start paying attention to their means of distribution. Because the way in which content is getting out there has shifted and continues to shift, it’s no longer possible to hope for a distributor to swoop [...]