“From Boots to Broadway: How Army Veteran Ryan Smith Transformed His Life Into a Captivating Musical Journey”
Ashley
Do you have any advice for submitting to festivals? Do you do some research? Film Freeway is obviously a great resource to find them. But how do you know if it’s a good festival? Maybe just some quick tips about filmmakers if they’re looking to submit to festivals. What did you learn from doing this?
Ryan Smith
Yeah, I would say Film Freeway is a good way to go. You definitely need to do your research ahead of time and find out who to submit to, what order to submit it in, what time of year even you should start submitting, because that’s really a big thing. The film was finished too late in the year for me to submit to some of the ones that I wanted to. And I think I would have been better off just waiting the six months and starting the next year, as opposed to just throwing it in at the end of the year. You want to hit the year fresh, start submitting in the November, December time frame to the big ones that you want to submit to and see how that goes. Because otherwise, you’re going to miss some of the ones that you may want to do. I would also say that once you do start submitting, you’re just going to get a flood of emails from other festivals that are like, hey, submit to ours. It’ll be free, or it’ll be heavily discounted. If they’re emailing you, unless it’s an individual that’s reaching out to you and it’s from a bigger festival, I would say just don’t even bother. Because there’s a lot of festivals out there that are just cash grabs. That’s literally all they are. It’s basically you’re paying to either get some sort of specific award, or they’re just looking for your money and they’re not going to give you anything. It’s kind of ridiculous.
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