Film Festival 101 with Eileen O' Brien

Free for WIFMCO members
$40 non members, $10 Student non members

In 1995, Eileen’s husband’s work took them to the south of France. She started working at the Cannes Film Festival that year. Previously, she worked only in television and film production and had never even been to a festival!
After Eileen’s first festival, she decided to start a new path in her career and thus began her 30 years of working in and running film festivals. She went on to work at Sundance, Denver, Savannah, Annapolis, Hot Docs and Santa Fe Film Festivals.
Today, her new goal is to share mher years of experience and grass roots education about festivals with interested others!
As artistic director of the Savannah Film Festival in the early 2000’s, she would take 30 film students to Cannes each year. Before they left, Eileen would give a class to students, “Festival 101.” Now, she would like to share the information from this valuable class, with YOU through a workshop hosted by WIFMCO.
Festival 101, includes a brief global history of film festivals. A comprehensive discussion of “festival etiquette”. Helpful hints about how to navigate the festival landscape as just a guest or as an invited filmmaker. Finally, as a former programmer, I give clear and detailed information about the complicated universe of submissions and, finally, how to navigate a festival when your film has been chosen to screen!

Join her at Festival 101, a WIFMCO workshop, on June 8, 2024 from 1p-4p, to hear stories from someone “who’s been there, done that”….and to learn more about the wild, wild world of film festivals!

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