What are your next moves inside the festival market? “Submission Limbo”. Chances are you’ve been clever about your submissions, taken your time and picked a few film festivals you feel are worthy of the film festival submissions fee and, I’m sure, some, if not all of these film festivals you’d love to be a part […]

The usage of trademarks and copyrighted material in Indie Filmmaking Law and all other elements which need to be taken into account. Filmmaking Law. The tables have turned. In the past a stern “I’ll take this to the press” threat really meant nothing to a big brand or production company once they and their scary […]

In the many years Lift-Off has been accepting our film festival submissions, we’ve picked up a few things along the way. This sort of post could always be misconstrued as a bunch of film festival directors blowing smoke up their own bottoms trying to tell everyone how to run their film festival submissions, trust us we […]

Story structure for the short film narrative “These creatures are among us, although morphologically they do not differ from us; we must not posit a difference of essence, but a difference of behaviour.” – Phillip K. Dick Short film story structure is a difficult point in terms of education. Notably, three acts within 10/15 pages […]

  When learning how to network, the first piece of advice I could give is a bit of an airy-fairy one, but it is honestly so true, it is to open up your soul, so those smiles and laughs come naturally…. “…we can’t forget the fun we’ve had Laughing ’til our faces turn blue. Talking […]