Festivals that have fearless and adventurous people?
Two years ago I was preparing my trip to Valdivia Internacional Film Festival (FICV) and I decided to interview Bruno Bettati who was the Executive Producer and now is the new Film Festival Director.
This year I’m not going alone and now preparing again this great trip I was checking some Festivals that Bruno recommend me when I asked:Which festivals do you recommend for young-adventurous-fearless people?
B: Festivals that have fearless and adventurous people? I suspect that Slamdance,Sitges, Telluride, Queer Lisboa, Ann Arbor They gather very particular people, with a careless and unprejudiced attitude… even un-industrialized. Cinema as manifesto.
If you take a look to this festivals is amazing how they reflect their proposes and a completely different communication statement than the bigger ones. Some of them are getting better coverage and relevance, with the participation of pop-filmmakers who respect those initiatives.
Coming soon
Telluride Film Festival in Colorado is almost here! September 3 to 6. An special guest is the Director, Michael Ondaatje and if you are a student you can learn a lot at the Student Symposium. If you like parties and special events they are waiting for you at Queer Lisboa, this festival is the next in the calendar, 17th-25th September 2010.
October is the month for SITGES International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia This festival is all about fantasy, all began as the International Week of Fantasy and Horror Movies in 1968, and now is the most relevant fantasy film festival in the world.
If you are in southern Chile join us in Valdivia between October 14th and 19th, good films, excellent atmosphere, an amazing city with beautiful landscape.
Call for entries!
Ann Arbor and Slamdance are open for entries!!! Those festivals are alternative, independent and experimentalist.
Ann Arbor Film Festival exhibit a huge variety of films genders. If you love Agnes Varda, Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, Gus Van Sant, Barbara Hammer, that’s your festival.
Slamdance By Filmmakers for Filmmakers. Your film doesn’t have domestic theatrical distribution? first-time feature directors? your budget under one million dollars? Submit!
