In this article, I'm going to lay out the entire short film playbook—festival strategies, maximizing your festival experience, cost-cutting on submissions, marketing ideas, and how to execute your distribution and release. Look—short films are basically a rite of passage. Anyone who has ever picked up a...
Clara Lezama's short film 'Emma' screened at a host of South American festivals, including Festival Internacional de Escuelas de Cine & Festival Piriápolis de Película, winning best Uruguayan Short Film at both. 'Emma' came to Pendance for its North American Premiere on December, 15, 2017...
While Hollywood still has a gender disparity problem with women behind the camera, film festivals have usually been marginally better at celebrating female voices. These are some of those voices. Whether it's Goya-winner Carlota Pereda, Sundance-favourite Eliza Hittman, or a filmmaker you've never heard of,...
When we launched Pendance in 2017, we had one thing going for us—great mentors. As filmmakers ourselves, we'd had so many opportunities to talk to and connect with programmers at film festivals we respected in order to understand the day-to-day grind of putting on a...
It has been a full year since the passing of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna 'Gigi' Bryant in a helicopter crash. There are literally thousands of interviews, games, and moments that contribute to Kobe's ever-lasting legacy as one of the greatest athletes ever, but...
Past selections, festival favorites, cinema classics, roundtable discussions and video essays, all in one place. The Pendance Library represents a renewed focus from the Pendance Film Festival to bring great content to our audience, year-round. Boasting over 50 new titles on launch with the promise...
Straight Up | Feb 21, 8:00pm | TIFF Bell Lightbox BUY TICKETS Starring Katie Findlay (The Killing), Randall Park (Aquaman), Betsy Brandt (Breaking Bad), James Scully (You Season 2) and the uber-talented James Sweeney, this film is a winner. It's hilarious, and one of the best-written films...
