This is a brief presentation made by Mr. Saameer Mody of Pocket Films for the MBA students of Whistling Woods International as a visiting faculty. The intent was to give the students and insight into the prospects of documentaries and short films vis-a-vis Film Festivals, Film Markets and for Distribution.

1. Documentary & Short Films
Film Festivals
Distribution

2. Film Festivals
Cultural Aspect
Business Aspect

3. Business & Culture at Film
Festival
“Outside In”
* All posters are the copyright of the respective film owners

4. Do Festivals work for SF &
Docs?
O Recognition
O Visibility leading to Revenues

5. Film Festival Basics
O Important festivals in the world.
O How to reach out to them?
O Criteria for acceptance of your film.

6. Important Festivals
Short Film Festivals :
O Sundance Film Festival
O Cannes Film Festival
O Palms Springs International Film Festival
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Clermont Ferrand International Short Film
Festival
Aspen Short Fest
Berlin Film Festival
Raindance Film Festival

7. Important Festivals
Documentary Festivals :
O Sundance Film Festival
O International Documentary Film Festival
Amsterdam (IDFA)
O DOK Leipzig
O Toronto International Film Festival
O Hot Docs

8. Submitting Your Film
O Festival’s own website
O Offline Submissions via snail mail
O Facilitating websites like :
O www.withoutabox.com
O www.shortfilmdepot.com
O www.clickforfestivals.com

9. Criteria for Acceptability
O Targeting the right festivals
O Major Festivals
O Genre Based Festivals
O Timelines
O Programmer / Consultant

10. Film Markets
O Important Film Markets
O Cannes Film Festival – Marche Du Film (Short
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Clermont Ferrand International Short Film
Festival
Berlin Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
IDFA
AFM (American Film Market)
Hong Kong Film Mart

11. Distribution
O Theatrical
O Television / Satellite / Cable
O DVD
O Other – inflight, educational distribution, etc.

12. Distribution
O Digital or Online & Mobile
O AVOD / SVOD / TVOD
O Democratic and Economical
O Crowd sourcing and Social Media

13. Case Study
 1st Kannada film made with crowd funding
 1200 pre-orders generated US$ 40,000
 Online sales generated US$ 22,000 in 10 days.
*The poster is the copyright of the film producer.

14. Pocket Films
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Short Film Contests.

15. Connect with Us
Pocket Films
Gala No. 2, Plot No. 2, Udyog Nagar, Goregaon
(West), Mumbai 400062.
Visit www.pocketfilms.in
Call:+91-22-28772090
Email: info@pocketfilms.in