ABSTRACT
Every filmmaker intends to show at film festivals. Film festivals are more expensive than most people think. Filmmakers should know that if they do get in to bigger festivals, they have to go. Often filmmakers do not think about how much they will have to lay out to show up at their festival screens. Business people do not usually go to genre festivals or shorts festivals. Harris says that short festivals do have business people from the shorts world, but the people that are going to help filmmaker fund their feature are not going to be at a shorts festival. There are two primary film festival seasons: winter/spring followed by fall. Filmmakers should know that very few festivals want premier status. Harris reminds that not every short is a festival movie. He believes that festivals are looking for auteur driven shorts.
