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Episode: How to Create a Film Festival Strategy
Description: You've finished a film. Now how do you get it programmed at your preferred festival? Samah Ali is a film festival strategist, meaning she works with documentary directors and producers to achieve their film festival goals. Samah is also a distributor and film programmer at Academy Award-qualifying festivals like Hot Docs, DOC NYC, Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival.In this episode, Samah discusses how to think about premiere status, submission vs solicitation-based film festivals, and what a strategist like herself can bring to the table.Check out Samah's blog: https://stratali.net/<...