Demystifying Film Festivals with Christina Raia: Virtual Workshop

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In this workshop, we'll be doing a deep dive into film festival strategy and submissions for narrative shorts and features. We'll cover:

• Maximizing your limited festival submission budget

• Determining your primary objective with your festival run and building a submission strategy that makes sense

• How to think about festival strategy BEFORE you make your film

• What to do if you're not having success with festivals or think your film is "unprogrammable"

• How to get the most out of your festival run

• How to market your film to festivalgoers to get the audience you want

• What to do if you don't have any "name" actors in your project — and how to maximize big names if you do have them

• And much more!

During this workshop we will have a feedback session where audience members can submit information about their film and festival strategy/pain points so that Christina can give her feedback.

Christina Raia is a New York born and based writer/director of Indo-Caribbean descent who focuses on character-driven and socially conscious horror and comedy, using genre as a lens to represent, discuss, and dissect social issues, otherness, and real world anxieties. With a dozen shorts, a web series, and two features under her belt, Christina's work has screened at film festivals all across the country, most recently at Sidewalk Film Festival and Chattanooga Film Festival. Christina is currently in development with executive producer Lilly Wachowski (The Matrix, Bound, Work in Progress) on her next feature as writer/director, a horror-comedy titled Midnight Harvest, slated for production in fall 2025. Through a desire to support and inspire other artists, she co-hosts the educational podcast Breaking Out of Breaking In and teaches workshops on audience building and creative distribution methods. Find out more about Christina and her work at christinaraia.com.

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