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Chris Holland has been writing about movies since 1991. In 1996 he co-founded Stomp Tokyo, a film review web site described by the New York Times as "a place to indulge one's questionable cinematic taste." In 2003 Stomp Tokyo published a compendium of reviews in a book called Reel Shame: Bad Movies and the Hollywood Stars Who Made Them.
Chris now puts his expertise in movies and film festivals to use at B-Side Entertainment as the Manager of Festival Operations. He writes this blog as well as Blue Glow and contributes to Slackerwood.
Collected articles from the blog as well as original essays about preparing your film for the festival circuit are published in the book Film Festival Secrets: A Handbook for Independent Filmmakers, now available at Amazon.com.
E-mail Chris at chris at filmfestivalsecrets dot com.
1 comment:
Sorry, but I call bogus. I especially respect what FOUR EYED MONSTERS was able to do - I think it's great.
However, they complain about "film festivals" in general, but their gripes are almost exclusively about Sundance. I agree, I think the standard method is broken, but it's these same filmmakers who have continued to support the status quo. Sundance gets like 8,000 entries while smaller fests get like 500. If filmmakers want to fix the festival circuit, stop depending on Sundance, SXSW, and Tribeca and start spreading things out. The buyers will start following the filmmakers, believe me.
Online distribution is fine, but I prefer to see a good movie on the big screen and that's what I think GOOD festivals are about - allowing the public and the filmmakers access to one another.
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