The Best Film Festivals

There's a lot of great film festivals out there in this world. Your job, as a filmmaker, is to find the best ones for your movie. With over 5000 film festivals globally, that can be quite a task.

As a filmmaker, my films have screened at over 300 film festivals worldwide. There's some great ones out there....and not so great. But regardless how good the festival is, you have to take that with a grain of salt, and have the attitude that the festival is an audience for your film. So play your film at any festival it can screen at. And build your audience.

Based on my experience, I've had great experiences with film festivals. There's different festivals for different films. My films are very alternative, underground and independent. So they appeal to all types of film festivals. Based on my experience, these are my favorites:

Slamdance Film Festival
Cucalorus
Florida Film Festival

If you get a film in Slamdance, you become family. It's like the mob. Once you're in, you're family for life. Slamdance rocks. The Park City madness during Sundance in January....that experience is like no other. And I much prefer Slamdance to Sundance.

Cucalorus, simply put, is the bomb. The coolest film festival I've ever been to. Hands down. A 4 day party. If you screen at this festival, you are spoiled for life.

The Florida Film Festival has a great bunch of people. The Enzian Theater is a great, awesome screening space. And Orlando is a great city to be in during the festival. These people know how to put on one hell of a festival.

There's a lot of other great ones out there. It's your job to find the ones that best fit your film.