film festival submissions

Film Festival Submissions – I’ve Submitted, Now What?

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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 […]

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Film of the Fortnight: A Complicated Way to Live.

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Live Action Narrative | UK Why Lift-Off Programmed this Film: Momentum is key to filmmakers finding their voice and their brand. In our experience it’s almost impossible for a filmmaker to find their style from their first or second film. HartHunter Productions started with Lift-Off many years ago with their debut short: Leonard – a […]

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filmmaking law and legal misconceptions

Filmmaking law and legal misconceptions.

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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 […]

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9 Mistakes filmmakers make on the film festival circuit.

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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 […]

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Film of the Fortnight: Francis B. Griffin – Directed by Paul Griffin.

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Documentary | UK Why Lift-Off Programmed this Film: We find that films of this nature tend to tow a common background – but many fail to deliver something as unique as Francis B. Griffin. It had a certain humanity which we have found lacking in many talking head based retrospective cinematic family tributes. Our Global […]

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