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Chris Gore’s Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide, 4th Edition: The Essential Companion for Filmmakers and Festival-Goers (Chris Gore’s Ultimate Flim Festival Survival Guide)
£8.20
Learn the secrets of successfully marketing and selling your film at more than 1,000 film festivals around the world, including the best ones for indie, documentary, short, student, digital, animation and more. Chris Gore reveals how to get a film accepted and what to do after acceptance. The updated and revised 4th edition includes new filmmaker interviews with Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me, Jared Hess of Napolean Dynamite, as well as actor/director Crispin Glover and Seth Gordon, a documentary filmmaker; full listings and contact information for all festivals; in-depth analysis of the Big Ten festivals; and fresh, timely how-tos for marketing, distributing, and selling a film and using the Internet to build buzz. The book includes a scratch-off card containing an access code to the author’s secure festival database online: a comprehensive listing of more than 1,000 film festivals worldwide, with all location and contact information, where up-to-the-minute updates to the listings can be found.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Watson-Guptill, 4th edition (7 Dec. 2009) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 320 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0823099717 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0823099719 |
| Dimensions | 15.24 x 1.85 x 22.86 cm |
by Clean Teeth
The website associated with this book DOES NOT WORK. It appears not to have been up for a long time. (3 or 4 years?) Look on Chris Gore’s Facebook page or Twitter profile. Something’s up, but he’s clearly currently off the scene. This book is very useful BUT if you bought the latest edition, as I did, solely for the internet database that accompanies it, don’t buy it, because you will be sorely disappointed.
It’s a shame that he hasn’t himself presented this information on amazon because you’re not getting what you paid for with this purchase. Disappointing. Book – good. Database – down!
Personally, I’d like my money back because I already owned a previous copy of this book. Additionally, it’s worth taking some of the information with a pinch of salt. Top ten festivals outside the US include Oldenburg but not Venice. Clearly, complete nonsense.
by David Calcano
Chris Gore’s Book is the best book I’ve seen on how to approach and select Festivals for your film; whether is a short of a feature. Chris give’s open an honest tips on how to increase your film’s probability to get accepted, prepare your festival strategy and WHAT TO PUT IN THE PRESS KIT!!
My film (Fantoons) has done a good round of festival this year (8 so far) and Chris’ book was invaluable for to prepare the material.
The only think I would criticise is the online access (it never worked for me) but it wasn’t necessary, and the book is still brilliant.
Make this your first step to start the strategy and look for yourself afterwards, don’t stay with the festivals in the book only, especially if you are beginning your career. As Mr. Gore himself says so: It is better to loved in a smaller festival than ignored in one of the big ones.