Festival strategies that work NOW
The festival landscape is rapidly changing. Festival veteran Jon Fitzgerald joins Keith to present innovative strategies to tackle the current challenges and opportunities.
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The festival landscape is rapidly changing. Festival veteran Jon Fitzgerald joins Keith to present innovative strategies to tackle the current challenges and opportunities.
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The festival landscape is rapidly changing. Festival veteran Jon Fitzgerald joins Keith to present innovative strategies to tackle the current challenges and opportunities.
The ‘Submit to Sundance plus 20 other festivals on Film Freeway’ strategy just doesn’t work.
Slamdance co-founder, Jon Fitzgerald, who has run dozens of film festivals (including AFI and Santa Barbara), and advised thousands of filmmakers, co-hosted this eye-opening conversation on creative and non-traditional festival strategies with Keith Ochwat.
About Your Instructor
About Your Instructors
Keith Ochwat
Keith is the founder of the Show&Tell virtual screening platform and leads the Show&Tell educational course.
After producing his own documentaries for 12 years, he’s advised hundreds of filmmakers on their distribution fundraising strategy.
He's delivered keynote presentations on distribution at filmmaking organizations like IDA and IFP and his work has appeared in IndieWire and Documentary Magazine.
Jon Fitzgerald
Jon has twenty-five years of experience in the independent film, internet and film festival communities, a rare leader with a unique combination of skills. As a filmmaker, he has produced a number of award winning documentaries; and as a consultant, he has guided many independent film projects through the maze of festivals and hybrid distribution models.
As a co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival, he led the event the next two seasons before being named the Festival Director for the prestigious AFI Film Festival in 1997. After running AFI Fest for three years, he created a consulting business, guiding the launch of numerous film festivals (Bahamas, Lone Star, Orlando), directing several others (Santa Barbara, Topanga and Naples), and consulting to dozens more, while sharing insights, articles and videos through On the Circuit.
Recognizing that film is more than just entertainment, it is a tool to engage and inspire audiences to take action, Jon created Cause Pictures as a new paradigm to help create change.
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