Leah Land

Leah recently gave a guest lecture at Tish Asia called Navigating the Film Festival Circuit.

Mon. Nov. 23rd 2009 12:30pm
Tisch Asia
4th Floor Conference Room
3 Kay Siang Road
Singapore 248923

Navigating the Film Festival Circuit
Brown bag lunch workshop with Leah Meyerhoff

Have you finished your second-year film but don’t know where to begin submitting to festivals? Are you budgeting your thesis and trying to figure out how much to save for marketing? Do you think it is impossible to make money distributing a short film? Have you given up on sending your film out because it is too expensive or too much work? Is your MOS languishing in a closet somewhere?
Then this workshop is for you!

Learn how to make the most of the film festival world – from the moment you finish post until you finally secure distribution. Topics to be covered include: festival submission strategy, inquiry letters, fee waivers, deliverables, clearances, press kits, press releases, self-promotion, DIY marketing, social networking, distribution strategies, legal contracts and self distribution. This workshop will help you make the transition from First Run to Sundance, from Final Cut to the big screen, and from the class room to the real world.

Leah Meyerhoff is a Student Academy Award finalist and Slamdance Grand Jury prize winning Tisch grad who has had great success on the film festival circuit. Her second-year film TWITCH has screened in over 200 festivals, won a dozen international awards and was picked up for distribution by IFC, Reelport, Skandinavia TV, iTunes and Hulu. Her music videos TEAM QUEEN and ETERNAL FLAME have screened in over 50 festivals and aired on LOGO and MTV Europe. She has since been on numerous festival panels and recently served on the Slamdance Narrative Jury. Leah has received press coverage from The New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, and Film Threat among others, and was also profiled in the “Film School” series on IFC. She holds a BA in Art-Semiotics from Brown University and has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Dalton, and the New York Film Academy in Florence, Italy. Leah is currently in development on her first feature film UNICORNS, a Sundance Lab finalist produced by Allison Anders and Heather Rae. For more information, please visit www.leahmeyerhoff.com

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