{"id":506,"date":"2020-02-09T04:31:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T04:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melbourneindiefilmfestival.com\/festival\/?p=506"},"modified":"2020-02-09T05:01:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T05:01:51","slug":"att-all-filmmakers-prepare-for-success-have-your-epk-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melbourneindiefilmfestival.com\/festival\/att-all-filmmakers-prepare-for-success-have-your-epk-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Att All Filmmakers: Prepare For Success! Have Your EPK Ready!"},"content":{"rendered":"

PREPARE FOR SUCCESS! HAVE YOUR EPK READY! <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Dear entrants of the Melbourne Indie Film Festival 2020,<\/span><\/h2>\n

We are very passionate about indie films and sharing the beauty of amazing stories from Australia and all over the world with our audiences. We invest a lot in promoting the program, reaching as many people as possible, and helping them understand that great films don’t need celebrities, studio facilities and multi-million dollars budgets, but can be told by filmmakers from all ages, backgrounds, and levels of experience.<\/span><\/h2>\n

While the films which make it to the final festival program are the best and most fascinating stories, carefully selected by our programming team, our audiences won’t know what to expect without YOUR HELP. <\/span><\/h2>\n

We need your help in promoting YOUR FILMS, in making sure your EPK (Electronic Press Kit) is as complete as possible. It’s your film, your baby, and only you can provide the necessary publicity material to promote your own work in our festival and festivals worldwide.<\/span><\/h2>\n

Once our program is complete and all official selections announced, we have to move fast to promote all films, and we won’t have time to chase little things – trailers, stills, synopses… the very things which will encourage audiences to come and watch YOUR FILMS.<\/span><\/h2>\n

So please help us to promote your films by ensuring your EPK (electronic Press Kit) is ready for us to download from your FilmFreeway project page (it’s faster for us to download everything from FilmFreeway, rather than going through hundreds of emails and waiting slow downloads from emails servers).<\/span><\/h2>\n

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TRAILER<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Trailers are mandatory for all FEATURE FILMS, and are optional for SHORT FILMS. Audiences are more likely to come and watch your film if they have a chance to see a trailer! <\/span><\/h2>\n

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Additional note 1:<\/span> <\/strong>We strongly recommend that your trailer have SUBTITLES if your film is not in English to better engage the audience.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Additional note 2: <\/strong>We strongly recommend that your trailer is a proper trailer instead of just the first minute of your film or so, we’ve seen many of those, and it works in some cases, others don’t. <\/span><\/h3>\n

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