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Film Festivals
The film festival is the traditional way to get your animated film out into the
world. You not only show your film at these festivals but you meet people
from around the world with similar interests and different approaches to
their filmmaking. Both experienced and novice animators and fans attend
these festivals, and these people are generally pretty accessible for
conversations. Seeing what other filmmakers are producing can be very
inspiring. Exchanging ideas with people who are driven to make animated
films, with all the struggle related to that, can help your morale when you
feel defeated by the big commitment that frame-by-frame filmmaking can be.
Sometimes this is where you find commissioned work or even potential
distribution of your film.
A lot is involved in this process, and it takes constant research and follow-
through. Fortunately, many new tools and websites help make this process
much more efficient and easy to navigate. In my experience, one of the
most widely accepted sites is Withoutabox. Hundreds of festivals,
primarily in the United States but also around the world, accept film
submissions through this site. You basically fill out one thorough
application form that accompanies every entry submission to any festival
in the world. You can even upload your film to this site for festival jury
viewing (for a small fee), so that you save lots of time and money. These
festivals look at the Withoutabox site generic application and view your
online viewing copy of the film through this site. You have the option
of sending a screening copy to the festivals directly, even though you
have submitted your application through Withoutabox. You are given a
reference number,
so the screening copy can be matched to the application when it arrives
at the festival. There are other such sites, and our corresponding website
lists some of these sites.
Fig 12.1
the Withoutabox
home page
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