Cinematic Documentary Filmmaking: Shoot, Edit, Launch
Distribution and Promotion
A course by Chloe White , Documentary Filmmaker and Director
About the video: Distribution and Promotion
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll show you how to get your film seen! I'll talk about the option of submitting it to film festivals, and then the option of going online. ”
In this video lesson Chloe White addresses the topic: Distribution and Promotion, which is part of the Domestika online course: Cinematic Documentary Filmmaking: Shoot, Edit, Launch. Learn how to make a documentary by creating a short film on a subject of your choice, from the initial research to the post-production process.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Distribution and Promotion The world of short film distribution can feel a bit daunting and confusing. In this lesson, we'll go through submitting your film to film festivals and also putting it online. You may want to send your film to a film festival. Short of the Week has a great list of film festivals. It has 124 of the world's best film festivals. What's useful is you can see what country they're in, whether you'll be able to easily attend the festival, when they are, and crucially, whether they allow your film to already have been online. Some festivals, as you can see, don't. If yo...”
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Course summary for: Cinematic Documentary Filmmaking: Shoot, Edit, Launch
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Premiere -
Areas
Audiovisual Post-production, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Video

Chloe White
A course by Chloe White
Chloe White is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and photographer and director of Whalebone Films. Her films are intimate, considered portraits, focusing mainly on the female experience. Chloe lectures in Documentary Film at the University College London and London College of Communications, and lives in Hastings, UK.
Her clients and partners include the Guardian, Topic, Al Jazeera, Nowness, BBC, Channel 4, Oxfam, Save the Children and the BFI. She has had films screen at festivals internationally including at Camden International Film Festival, Open City, and Sheffield Doc Fest and is a winner of the prestigious Macdowell fellowship.
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