Film making is promoted strongly through film festivals with invitation to anyone to submit there own entries of work. There is a summer fundraiser which is backed by social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, which helps to raise awareness to ensure that the festival remains running as the websites blog post explains:
- "LSFF Artistic Director Philip Ilson chats about the forthcoming fundraiser event and looks at how the Festival has managed to survive over twelve years."
Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, is the UK's leading short film and animation festival. It is
Watershed's annual event which brings together film makers and industry professionals. Over 2,000 films are submitted each year, and the curatorial group selects around 200 to screen in competition during the festival. Funding mostly comes from a wide range of local, national and international sponsors, such as the BFI, The National Lottery Fund, Briston City Council and Media Programme.
This is a great way of getting your work noticed as it is a famous and prestigious film festival. If your work is deemed good enough it can feature on the official website, thus promoting your work to a larger audience.
A thorough piece of work investigating how short films are promoted as part of the distributor's work attracting and addressing audiences. Please make the font larger as it is barely legible.
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