Navigating the International Film Festival Circuit: A Women Make Movies Webinar
Thurs, April 18/2 pm (EST) / 11 AM (PST)
$30 | $20 (WMM Partner/NAMAC member rate)
Register here.

WMM and NAMAC are partnering to bring you this amazing webinar!

Register soon, space is limited!

Women Make Movies (WMM) provides highly attended, in-person educational workshops to their filmmakers every year. Now, for the first time, they are making their invaluable knowledge and expertise available to a national (and international) audience! NAMAC (National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture) is proud to partner with Women Make Movies to present an important professional development opportunity for filmmakers around the country and the world.

As a filmmaker, you know all about Film Festivals. You've heard that film festivals are the route to distribution. You've sensed that certain festivals may be better for you than others. But in a market increasingly saturated with festivals, how do you whittle down which festivals are best for you? And once you get in, what do you do there? How do you meet with distributors? What are best practices to pursue and pitfalls to avoid?

In this webinar, WMM Executive Director and recent Hot Docs Media Mogul Awardee Debra Zimmerman will help you decode and conquer the film festival circuit. Find out through this online conversation how to optimize your festival screenings with tips on creating your festival strategy, packaging your film, and navigating the scene once you're there. This is the perfect workshop for learning more about how to better market and launch your feature, documentary, or short.

Within a week of registering, you will be emailed information about how to log onto the webinar platform.



 

Documentary Proposal Writing Basics & Film Funder Overview
Thursday, March 21 | 6:30 - 8:30PM
Regular Rate: $35.00 | (discount rate) $25.00

As film funding becomes increasingly scarce and the competition for every dollar skyrockets, how will you make your grant application grab a funder’s attention? Proposal writing is a skill, equal parts art and science. Join us to learn these essentials skills and build your confidence so you can put your best foot forward and make your proposal stand out in a crowd. In this workshop, we will cover the essentials of grant-writing, provide an overview of the major film funders, review what they fund, how best to approach them, and how to avoid common mistakes.We’ll also discuss the importance of relationship building, the foundation of all fundraising. Presented by Tracie Holder, filmmaker, fundraiser and consultant to WMM’s Production Assistance Program. Holder has received grants from numerous funders including the Ford Foundation, ITVS, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, New York State Council for the Arts, Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film, The Sulzberger Foundation, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The J.M. Kaplan Fund and The LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, among others.

Pricing and Discounts