Introducing Mike Plante, Sundance Film Festival Programmer. With over 20 years of experience, Mike Plante offers invaluable insight into the process of selecting films for festivals. Before many of the best short films get to Vimeo, they play in film festivals around the world and, if they're lucky, they premiere at Sundance, the world-renowned Meanwhile, online and in-person tickets to individual films will be available to purchase on Thursday, January 12. Those sales begin at 9 a.m. PT / 10 a.m. MT / 11 a.m. CT / 12 p.m. ET. More Early submission allows you to research a particular programming style before submitting. You won’t need to ask the boring questions that festivals like Raindance get asked all the time. 5. It allows you time to market your project. Getting the marketing vibe right is one of the trickiest things any filmmaker can do. Sundance Film Festival. The Sundance Film Festival is arguably the most well-known American film festival. Every year, more than 10,000 short and feature-length documentaries and narrative films submit for consideration. Now the fest has even added television pilots and VR/AR projects to the lineup. Today the nonprofit Sundance Institute announced the lineup for the 2023 Sundance Film Festival Beyond Film conversations, all of which are open to the public.. Made up of three series called Power of Story, Cinema Café, and The Big Conversation, Beyond Film rounds out the Festival experience, providing a place for the community to engage through artist conversations, filmmaker panels, and First, make sure it’s no longer than 90 minutes in length (Sundance 2013). Second, screeners can only be sent via DVD or Bluray/HD-DVD disc (Sundance 2013). Third, make sure your film is in English. Last but not least, don’t forget the application fee! You must pay $50 to submit your film (Sundance 2015). This helps with processing fees and Welcome to Slamdance! Slamdance is a community, an experience and a statement. Established by a wild bunch of filmmakers who wanted to showcase the unfiltered voice of independent artists, Slamdance is an ongoing experiment that has proven, year after year, when it comes to recognizing talent and launching careers, the independent and grassroots film communities can do it themselves. Sundance, Once a Hotbed for Film Deals, Tries to Find Its Footing. The kind of independent movies that the festival showcases have struggled at the box office, spurring worries about what the Getty Images. It’s official: Sundance Film Festival 2024 is set to take place in-person (and online) on Jan. 18-28, returning to Park City, Utah to commemorate its 40th anniversary of This can do two things — first, it creates a personal connection to your film and, second, it creates a potential built-in audience for the festival, which programmers are always looking for. 2. Give your film a hook. In many ways, festival programmers are curating the film industry. 57xm5N.