Posts Tagged ‘ATLFF’

Notes from a Festival Programmer: How Your Trailer May Kill Your Chances of Being Accepted

Movie Posters and Trailers. Two marketing tools that are nearly as old as cinema itself, with posters going back hundreds of years when you link its lineage to the theater. Of the two, Poster has become a (lost) art form unto herself. Unlike her marketing sibling, Trailer, Poster can’t use clips from a film, or [Read More]

Notes from a festival programmer: A film synopsis should never start with “The film begins when…”

In my four years at the Atlanta Film Festival there are some things, peripherally as communications director and now directly as a programmer, I’ve run into time and time again with submissions. Many are common mistakes (or nitpicks on my part) that several filmmakers are making when they’re submitting their films. Many of them can be [Read More]

Gabe Wardell out at ATLFF

Gabe Wardell out at ATLFF

Just received an interesting press release from the Atlanta Film Festival. It appears that Gabe Wardell is out as the Executive Director at ATLFF365. No word yet, on whether or not it was a mutual decision. [Read More]

ATLFF 2010: “Love” Rocks Festival

ATLFF 2010: “Love” Rocks Festival

Rebound relationships can be a real bitch. So goes the theme of the RomCom/Horror mash-up Love on the Rocks which is written and directed by Georgia Tech grad Justin Edwards whose feature film marks his debut at the Atlanta Film Festival. The film tells the story of Amber and Gavin who are ending their relationship [Read More]