After begging, borrowing, stealing and Kickstarting to finish that potential masterpiece of a production, every broke-ass American indie filmmaker faces the same trying question as U.S. film festivals (each with their own submission fees) seem to pop up as quickly as Starbucks coffee shops: Where, b...
Read More »The Sarasota Film Festival announced their complete lineup today. One of the largest regional film festivals in the U.S., this years festival features over 222 films. The festival runs April 5-11, 2013.As we previously reported, the festival will open with Gabriela Cowperthwaite's "Blackfish," a doc...
Read More »The Sarasota Film Festival, which runs from April 5 - April 14, will open with Gabriela Cowperthwaite's "Blackfish," a documentary about the history of killer whales in captivity. The 15th annual festival will close with Noah Baumbach's "Frances Ha," starring Greta Gerwig.Sundance Special Jury Prize...
Read More »"Fair Trade for Filmmakers," an article by Sean Farnel that we published last week, attracted a lot of attention from filmmakers, festival programmers and other industry members, who carried on an intense debate in the comments about the feasibility of Sean's suggestion that festivals ...
Read More »Last week, when Cannes announced its all-male list of competition directors, I was in a room in Florida filled with 25 talented women directors, producers, writers and distributors. This was the second annual Side By Side Symposium organized by Holly Herrick, director of Sarasota Film Festival Women...
Read More »The Sarasota Film Festival has announced its 2012 program selections, with more than 230 films from 30 countries.
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