Five female filmmakers and films from 6 different countries headline a strong 10-feature-lineup for the 2021 Pendance Film Festival. Apart from being held virtually for the first time, the fourth year at Pendance marks a lot of firsts—a World Premiere feature, two documentary features, a...
Short films have always been a huge part of our programming at Pendance, and as the festival goes virtual in 2021 for the first time, we were bound to break a few records. Fun Fact: there are more Canadians selected to Pendance 2021 than there...
The Pendance Film Festival is going virtual on March 26-28, 2021 via Eventive. Passes go on sale March 9th. With 2020 being a generally slow year for the film industry, we're absolutely humbled to announce that our shorts programme may be our best one yet....
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...
