The Top 10 Best International Film Festivals of 2011
by Jaden
photo credit: Alina Sofia
Filmmakers and screenwriters looking for exposure to Hollywood entertainment movie studio and television industry network executives ought to enter their films into international film festivals.
Although showing films in local and small film venues is a great beginning to get recognition and experience, to breakthrough to Hollywood, you need to be seen by real working Hollywood officials.
These top rated film festivals are the best for launching a Hollywood filmmaking career.
#1 — The 64th Festival de Cannes
Festival dates: May 11-22, 2011
Location: Cannes, France
Deadline to enter: March 11, 2011
Click here to submit your film to Cannes.
#2 — The 36th Annual Toronto International Film Festival
Festival dates: September, 2011
Location: Toronto, Canada
Deadline to enter: To be determined.
Click here for the Toronto International Film Festival.
#3 — The Sundance Film Festival
Festival dates: January 20-30, 2011
Location: Park City, Utah, USA
Deadline to enter: September 3, 2010
Click here to submit your film to Sundance.
# 4 — The American Film Market
Market dates: November 2-9, 2011
Location: Santa Monica, California, USA
Deadline to enter: April through June, 2011
Click here for the American Film Market to exhibit your film.
# 5 — SXSW South by Southwest Music and Film Interactive
Festival dates: March 11 – 20, 2011
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Deadline to enter: August through December the year prior to the festival year.
# 6 — The 38th Telluride Film Festival
Festival dates: September 2 – 5, 2011
Location: Telluride, Colorado, USA
Deadline to enter: April, 2011
Click here for the Telluride Film Festival.
# 7 — Austin Film Festival
Festival dates: October 20 – 27, 2011
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Deadline to enter: June 1, 2011
Click here to submit your film or script to the Austin Film Festival.
# 8 — 16th Annual Nantucket Film Festival
Festival dates: June 22 – 26, 2011
Location: New York, USA
Deadline to enter: March 7, 2011
Click here to submit your film or screenplay to Nantucket Film Festival.
# 9 — Tribeca Film Festival
Festival dates: April 20 to May 1, 2011
Location: New York City, New York, USA
Deadline to enter: Year prior to festival year.
Click here for the Tribeca Film Festival.
# 10 — The 68th Berlin International Film Festival
Festival dates: February 10 – 20, 2011
Location: Berlin, Germany
Deadline to enter: November, year prior to festival year.
Click here for the Berlinale Film Festival.
If submission dates have passed for 2011, please mark your calendars so you can prepare your films by next year’s submission dates. Please note that many competitions also have requirements about a range of dates within which your film must have been completed.
For short films under 10 minutes, a great place to show them internationally is on YouTube.com. If you get millions of viewers, there is a good chance Hollywood will take notice of you, and who knows, you might get some offers!
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Please contribute additional FILM FESTIVALS INFORMATION or YOUR PERSONAL FILM FESTIVAL EXPERIENCES to the comments section for this article (not via email to me). Thank you!
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A very western average movie follower’s point of view. What about some of the Asian and Middle Eastern Film Festivals that can knock more than half of the list out you have there.
Dubai Intenrational Film Festival?
Pusan International Film Festival?
Hong Kong International Film Festival?
Shaghai International Film Festival?
VENICE film festival???????
Those are all titans over most of your list and on par with Cannes.
FF — Thanks for adding additional international film festivals. Yes, those are great as well.
The festivals on my list are specifically the ones that Hollywood film executives attend. Hollywood executives in mass don’t necessarily attend the ones you have listed, but yes, film executives from other countries might.
The big ones you have listed are more for already established big movie makers and famous actors.
My list is to help unknown screenwriters and filmmakers to get distribution with their own independent movies and make sales through Hollywood.
thanx for all ur info!!
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The top three film festivals in the world are Cannes, Venice and Berlin -in this order. This is not my opinion, it’s an order established in years in the movie world. Most important directors submit their works to these film festivals. The order of the rest is not so much established, but includes San Sebastian, Toronto and Sundance (Sundance, of course, is in a bit different category, since it is for independent movies, and mostly north american ones).