Originally, we had chosen the British Independent FIlm Festival, and had chosen to submit it to their late deadline of March 15th 2016. It was suggested that we try another film festival however, as the late deadline for this festival is almost a month before we actually finish the course, meaning we would be cutting about a month out of our production to submit it to the festival. Therefore we hav decided to investigate other festivals we could submit to instead.
Interestingly enough, we have recently been given an excel document which lists a lot of film festivals happening in the months after march, and so the beginning of our research has been pretty much completed for us.
I first investigated the Edinburgh Film Festival, but unfortunately, the submission date for this festival was before the original deadline we set ourself with the British Independent Film Festival, meaning we'd have given ourselves even less time.
A similar problem was found with the Tribeca FIlm Festival, in which although the festival takes place in 2016, the deadline for film submissions had already passed or was occurring well before our proposed project deadline.
One possible thing for consideration is that we may be able to submit our film to a festival in the year 2017. Of course, this means that there will be a period of time between us finishing our film and waiting for the 2017 submission dates to begin, but it also means we will have a choice of many festivals to submit to, increasing our viewership rates dramatically.
This experience has taught me that the date that a film festival submission slot begins and ends is a very important thing to consider when creating a film and having film festival as the submission format.
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