Tips on Submitting to Festivals and Crafting Pitches from EYE’s Ido Abram

Don’t chase the wrong festival — that was one of many simple but useful pieces of advice offered by Ido Abram at the recently concluded 33rd Istanbul Film Festival. Abram is currently the Director of Presentation and Communication at EYE, Netherland’s national film institute. In the past, he has been the director of the Binger Filmlab and the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s CineMart, the world’s first “co-production market.” He also serves on the Advisory Board of the prestigious Torino Filmlab. Throughout his career, Abram has listened to hundreds of pitches, trained filmmakers on how to make them, judged dozens of […]

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