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Explorations Project: How to Apply to Film Festivals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

“How can you find, explore, and\/or expand your passion?”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For our final junior freestyle project, Explorations, we were tasked to learn a new skill related to our respective electives. I chose to learn about how to apply to film festivals. I decided to do this because I felt like my narrative film and my peers’ animations and films were good enough to be submitted to student film festivals. We never really learned about film festivals, applying was just something we knew we could do but not something we knew how to do. I thought making a presentation and a how to video would be very useful for everybody as we had already put in the hard work of making our pieces of art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My process for my explorations project was researching the history of festivals and how to apply, applying to film festivals, making my presentation, and finally, sharing it with my classmates and teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the history of film festivals, I included a brief history and the impact of certain film festivals. The Venice Film Festival<\/em> is credited as the first film festival, starting in 1932. This festival was made to showcase a diverse range of international films. It would later inspire the creation of festivals like Cannes Film Festival<\/em> (1946) and the Berlin International Film Festival<\/em> (1951). The five most famous festivals are known as the “Big Five” – Venice, Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, and Sundance. I mentioned that COVID-19 significantly changed many festivals as many include virtual or hybrid options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Applying to film festivals was surprisingly straightfoward. I would like to thank FilmFreeway for being such an organized and helpful website, making the application process much smoother and more efficient. I applied to both the All American High School Film Festival, which holds its Teen Indie Awards Show in NYC, and the Nashville Film Festival, which holds its NextGen Student Competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Making my presentation was basically taking the research I had done, both from websites and from my own application process, and putting them into slides. The only new part I had to do was record a “how to” video on applying to film festivals. Once I had the video, putting together the slides was a smooth process<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lastly, I shared my research and advice with my classmates. The presentation can be seen below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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