Pre-Production - Output and Platform

Output and Platform for Condemned

Student Short Film Festivals

The idea is to get our film out there to the public and for this film to become an integral part of our show reel. One way of doing this is to submit our short to various film festivals across the country or even the world.

Hundreds of film festivals are held each year to showcase numerous film shorts submitted both locally and globally. Some of these festivals are specially designed for younger filmmakers such as students like ourselves.

Finding the suitable film festival for our film however is a difficult task. However, websites such as reelport.com work to find you the appropriate festival for your film. Using this website, we will be able to pinpoint exactly what festivals will be able to take our film as well as what festivals we as the filmmakers and producers can qualify for.

Before using reelport.com, we found some examples of festivals in the UK and around the world that our film COULD qualify for. These include:

UK Festivals (Dates)	Location
Pennine Film Festival (TBA)	Accrington
Encounters (25-30 September)	Bristol
Barnes Film Festival (28-30 September)	London
British Urban Film Festival (TBA)	London
The Smalls Film Festival (TBA)	London
International Festivals	Location
National Film Festival for Talented Youth	Seattle, USA
Nordic Youth Short Film Festival	Tromsø, Norway
Commfest	Toronto, Canada
Gijón International Film Festival for Young People	Gijón, Spain

While the UK Festivals are certainly achievable this year (most submission dates locked in after May), the International events are less so, hence why using reelport.com might prove to be more useful than conducting our own research. The submission dates for any content for the International Festivals have either already passed or will pass before we begin shooting. Should we choose to submit our film to any of these events, we may be able to attend a 2019 event.

Why YouTube and Vimeo?

Being a student short film, our options as far as output is concerned is rather limited. Two possibilities include YouTube and Vimeo, both of which are video-sharing websites open to the public.

The fact that almost anyone can add content to these websites is not a disadvantage to our short film. While the film will have to compete with billions of other videos for views and attention, we can take advantage of the websites accessibility by advertising the content to various social network services such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

YouTube also enables monetisation for content creators, meaning that we can get paid by the site depending on how many views the video gets through as revenue, as well as how many subscribers our channel gains. Additional revenue is also given to content longer than 10 minutes.