Over ten years creating award-winning film festival strategies
If you want to create a successful film festival strategy for your film, win awards, find a suitable sales agent and promote & market your film - we can help you achieve this.
We offer a 360 degree fully comprehensive service, which takes care of all of the planning, logistics and organisation.
Our services help save you money and can also make you more money as a filmmaker.
Dr Rebekah Louisa Smith (aka Rebekah Film Dr) is an awardwinning consultant and media personality with over 10 years of film festival strategy consulting experience. After choosing not to pursue a career in Academia, Doctor Rebekah Louisa Smith began her film industry career in 2008, working as one of the producers of Wales’ most successful national horror film festival, the Abertoir Horror Festival, which is part of the prestigious European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation.
Rebekah & her hard-working team are creators of success and are committed to nurturing filmmakers in order to help them secure visibility, awards, sales and distribution deals, and general recognition within the film industry.
Currently her company have won over 2,500 awards for their clients and her team have supported over 848 creatives across the world enlightening and inspiring their journey towards achieving their goals and following their dreams.
How does working with The Film Festival Doctor save you money and can also make you more money as a filmmaker?
• Career Growth & New Career Opportunities –this is achieved attending the right film festivals to build professional business relationships to generate additional paid work
• Finding you the right sales agent - money earned via sales revenues
• Strategic Networkingintroductions to our black book of contacts to help build professional relationships
• Winning prize money
• Submitting the film to the right film festivals in order to save you money on submitting to the wrong film festivals
• Your investment in us is paying for our knowledge & expertise with regards to how to navigate the festival circuit properly and to get the best results for you and your film from it
• Sharing the cost of screening fees where applicable 50/50 (features only)
100% success rate for all of our clients
478 awards won for our clients
819 international film festival screenings
1 Oscar Shortlisted film for Best Live Action Short Film
What is The Film Festival Doctor’s strategy package?
1. Identifying the right film festivals to submit your film to, so you can achieve the results it deserves
2. Discover how to position your film within the international festival circuit
How can Rebekah help?
One to one bespoke consultancy
A festival strategy tailor made for your film
What the consultancy includes:
• Constructive Feedback on your completed film from a film festival programmer’s point of view
• Identifying your goals
• Creating your budgets
• A strategy of 45+ recommended target festivals for your film
• Other approaches towards achieving successful exposure
• How to integrate P.R. and sales into your strategy
• Follow up post-consultancy on all your questions and queries
• Other information that you require
Strategy + Consultancy: $1,000 USD (excluding the cost of submission fees). The fees apply to both short films and feature films.
‘It was a pleasure to meet with Rebekah. Her counsel was specific and set a target and vision for the serious story writer and film-maker within the ‘Festival Framework’ and beyond which I found most exciting and promising. The world is open to a creative person who does the work and the work includes this crucial stage of pre-planning with professionals such as Rebekah.
I gained much from her advice and directives – thank you’
Leah Kotkes Writer of KINDESS OF STRANGERS
The Film Festival Doctor’s management service is where Rebekah and her team take care of submitting your film to festivals and look after your festival strategy.
OUR MANAGEMENT SERVICE INCLUDES:
• Creating your film festival strategy
• Submitting your film to festivals
• Lobbying your film to our festival programmer contacts
• Organising all film festival screenings & deliverables
• Mentoring and supporting your bespoke needs
• Additional services include –
matching a sales agent to sell your film and finding PR management
THE KEY RETURNS ON YOUR INVESTMENT:
• Career growth & new career opportunities
• Finding you the right sales agent to sell your film
• Win prize money
• Submitting to the right film festivals
• Sharing the cost of screening fees (feature films only)
Prices begin at $3,000 USD for a 3 month contract. Our fees apply to both short films and feature films.
The Film Festival Doctor does what it says on the tin: she assessed where I was going wrong with my festival strategy and got my film Sea Change out there to find its audience, from highly prestigious and to smaller boutique festivals. I wish she’d been around when I was releasing my first 2 films – it would have saved me time and money’
Marinella Setti Director of
SEA CHANGE
Winner of 3 awards
We are very proud that our films have won over 2,500 awards at international film festivals including 8 SAFTA Awards (the South African BAFTAs), 4 BAFTA long listed films, 1 Oscar Shortlisted Film & 1 BAFTA Nomination. The short film SHOK received an Oscar nomination which The Film Festival Doctor proudly consulted on during the film’s development phase.
Our films have screened at prestigious film festivals all over the world including Sundance Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, Cork International Film Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival, Sitges International Film Festival, The BFI London Film Festival, Frameline International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival & Tribeca International Film Festival, Krakow Film Festival, Moscow International Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, the In-Edit Film Festival, Leeds International Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival and the Austin Film Festival.
Listen for free to our unique podcast where Rebekah interviews her clients about their filmmaking careers and how film festivals have played an integral role in their journey.
https://www.thefilmfestivaldoctor.com/podcast/
Browse the Film Festival Doctor’s online shop where you can purchase a variety of complimentary resources, a Film Festival Strategy Spreadsheet, our E-Books; ‘Priorities for Successful Film Festival Exposure’, ‘How to Create Your Own Film Festival’, ‘The Film Festival Doctor’s Guide To Navigating The Festival Circuit’ and our first of its kind groundbreaking book ‘Film Festivals & Looking After Your Mental Health’.
https://www.thefilmfestivaldoctor.com/shop
The Film Festival Doctor’s Blog; ‘Smart Ways to Achieve Film Festival Success’ has been designed to inform and educate filmmakers all things film festivals and film distribution. They’re also problem-solving blogs which will help resolve film festival related problems which filmmakers are currently experiencing.
https://www.thefilmfestivaldoctor.com/category/blog
We are based in Texas, USA. We are available for meetings and consultations 24/7
The Film Festival Doctor team had the honour and responsibility of representing the Grammy Award Winning Artist George Michael’s last work - a documentary feature film of his life which he co-directed with his collaborative partner David Austin.
The Film Festival Doctor secured 26 festival screening invitations for the film, including official selections at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Krakow, all of the prestigious LGBTQ Film Festivals and 1 Special Gala screening; the Raindance Film Festival’s Gay Times London Premiere Gala Screening event. The film has screened in 17 different countries and 5 of the screenings were programmed as the opening night film, our team secured the film 12 award nominations and 5 wins.
We would like to thank David Austin, Lisa Johnson and Sony Music UK for this opportunity and are proud of the results which the film has achieved and to all of the international film festivals for supporting George’s legacy.
Exhibiting at the Aesthetica Film Festival, U.K.
Charing an industry panel at the Oscar Qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival
Teaching How to Create a Successful Film Festival Strategy Lecture at the USC Cinematic School of Arts, U.S.A.
Attending and representing two of our client’s films at the Tribeca Film Festival
Keynote Speaker at the Triforce Short Film Festival, U.K.
Keynote Speaker at the Durban International Film Festival, South Africa
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