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May 17, 2010
Christopher Holland
festivals, podcast

Film Festival Secrets Podcast #8 - Dallas IFF, festival jury process, meeting your idols, and more.

May 17, 2010
Christopher Holland
festivals, podcast

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In this episode Jesse Trussell and Chris Holland gab about the Dallas International Film Fest, Cannes, and other things.

Links mentioned in the podcast:

  • The Dallas Film Festival
  • American: The Bill Hicks Story
  • Clay Liford's Earthling
  • Pete Docter at Dallas IFF
  • Jonathan Lisecki's Gayby
  • Heidi van Lier's Indie Film Rule Book
  • Interview with Withoutabox's Christian Gaines
  • Cannes Film Festival
  • Cannes Market
  • Universal Soldier IV news

Got questions? We'll answer 'em! Send email to chris@filmfestivalsecrets.com or reply to @ffsecrets on Twitter.

Download the MP3 now or subscribe in iTunes.


Photo credit: Retinafunk

May 17, 2010
Christopher Holland
festivals, podcast

Christopher Holland

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The Better Film Festival Submissions Toolkit has a very simple purpose: to help you improve the way you submit your work to film festivals.

Divided into 7 core tasks with a discussion of each task, the 16-page Toolkit is designed for quick reading and gives you concrete, actionable tasks to make your film submissions package better. Best of all, you'll get the insight you need to better understand what programmers look for and how to submit with confidence.


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Atlanta, Gachris@filmfestivalsecrets.com

Chris Holland currently works in programming and operations at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival and as a consultant on marketing and festival strategy for independent filmmakers around the world. He is also the author of Film Festival Secrets: A Handbook for Independent Filmmakers.. For more than a decade Chris has worked on all sides of the festival circuit, including time spent at B-Side Entertainment, Slated, IFP, the Austin Film Festival and Atlanta Film Festival. He believes that hot dogs are not sandwiches.