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Mark Brennan Mark Brennan

What do filmmakers really think about festivals?

This year at the London Short Film Festival, we took the opportunity to host a ‘town hall’ style meeting where we invited both filmmakers and festival programmers/directors to come together for a frank discussion about the film festival experience.

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Futurism - writing beyond worlds

Speaking to some of our clients (Mike Keaby // The Problem With Time Travel, Heather McQ // A Positive Contribution, Francis Tamburin // IRIS, and Ian Sweeney // Time Tourists) sci-fi scriptwriters are societies modern revolutionaries preparing their audiences with what the future entails. But how do we make it entertaining?

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Find Your Film a Home – 40 Great Festivals

Great fests for finding your film a buyer, best friend, or biggest fan Film festivals are a lovely break from your life at home — but they can also be the place your film finds a home. Our list has been created for and published by MovieMaker magazine, in 2022.

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a postcard from this is england film festival

Although the pandemic seems a fading memory, some festivals are still having their first ‘normal’ event since it began. Our strategy client Alfie sends this postcard from the fantastic This Is England over in Rouen.

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Horror Film Festivals & Programmes

Horror is a genre catered for not just with specific strands within broad festival programmes, it also boasts a number of high profile festivals entirely dedicated to horror, all born of a deep-rooted love of the genre.

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High flyers and Low budgets

Some of the challenges our clients had to face when making a low-budget film came down to the filmmaking saying TIME = MONEY.

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Festival Success Stories: Martin Garde Abildgaard

There are many differences between a festival run for a short film and one for a feature film, and Festival Formula client Martin Abildgaard has experienced both with us - his short Lovebirds and feature A Beautiful Curse.

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Festival Success Stories: Thomas Hescott

Even the most experienced of directors can find the global festival circuit to be something of an unknown beast. Thomas Hescott brought his second short film, The Act, to Festival Formula after taking on the circuit solo with his first short.

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Festival Success Stories: Kate Herron

If proof was ever needed that making and taking short films onto the festival circuit continues to be one of the most effective ways to launch a career, look no further than former Festival Formula client, Kate Herron.

Since working with us and her short film Five by Five, Kate has gone on to direct episodes of Sex Education on Netflix before taking the reins as series director of Loki on Disney+.

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