StudioFest Austin Offers a Chance to Make a $50K Film
StudioFest, a unique traveling film festival that gives moviemakers the chance to make a $50,000 film, is open for applications today for its latest festival, to be held this fall in Austin. While other festivals award prizes and awards, StudioFest is unusual in that it actually help its winners produce a micro-budget feature film.
Get Your First Feature Financed and Made with This One-of-a-Kind New Festival
Have you made a short or written a screenplay and are ready for your first feature? Here's a chance to get it made. Filmmakers Charles Beale and Jess Jacklin had a sense that many of their peers were dealing with similar hurdles to getting feature films made, even if they had already produced shorts that did well on the festival circuit.
StudioFest in Phoenicia
click to enlarge Any filmmaker, no what level they're working at, will tell you the same thing: The biggest, most important-and, usually, the hardest-part of making a feature-length film is finding the funding for it. Even for a modest indie feature, production costs can be astronomical, easily running into tens of thousands of dollars or more.
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StudioFest, taking place this weekend in Phoenicia, New York, is a first-of-its-kind film festival, offering the festival's winning short film creator a chance to shoot their debut feature film, backed and supported by experienced industry professionals.