Film Festival Tips from the Greats

Working with major film festivals around the world, you’re bound to see some patterns in what makes them so successful. We enjoy sharing our experience with you. Ready for some great and free film festival tips? Jump right in!

June Highlights: our top 5 film festivals

June - the film festival season is coming to an end, while summer and, hopefully, many open-air screenings are around the corner. We are festively starting June with the second part of IFFR's 50th edition. In the meantime and afterward, we travel (digitally, of course!) to England for Sheffield DocFest, to Germany for Berlinale, and [...]

Shiftpicker: A huge time saver for your volunteer coordinator

A big support and important part of your festival: volunteers. No film festival can do without, right? Fiona helps your volunteer coordinator to easily manage your team of volunteers. By default, you can keep track of your volunteers’ personal data, preferences in volunteering, their history within your festival, and your internal remarks on their work. [...]

Top 3 films at TIFF 2021

2021 is kicked off by TIFF, Tromsø International Film Festival. Due to the current circumstances, we are unfortunately not able to travel to this northernmost region of Norway, but it would have been magical to attend the festival. Think about it: the day the festival starts, on January 18, the sun has only been rising [...]

Happy holidays: Fiona’s film tips and 2021 festival calender

2020 – the year that the digitization of film festivals really took off; That your festival virtually connected professional guests from all over the world; And that the program of your film festival could be watched from home. Now, 2021 is just around the corner, and we are curious to see what it has in [...]

Our 3 favorite films at IDFA 2020

The International Documentary Festival Amsterdam already started last Wednesday, but you can enjoy at least ten more days of their festival program. With their hybrid form, there is a lot to enjoy both on-site and online. Currently, in the Netherlands, there are only 30 people allowed in a screening room. With IDFA Extended, selected films [...]

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