Submissions are now open for the 2023 Santa Fe Film Festival, please visit their page on Film Freeway at. “As a voting member of the Television Academy and longtime proponent of web series dating back to the mid-2000s, we felt that it was time to open up this as an official category and bring in resources to help support these projects,” Piche said.įuture planning for the Festival includes more business of filmmaking from pitches to budgets, how to build your audience and market your film, interactive media workshops including Virtual Reality and Gaming (Mo-Cap) as more actors, producers, and filmmakers explore these avenues for storytelling. With over 500 scripted television shows produced in the US, the Festival is also hoping that they can help bring visibility to these pilots and encourage filmmakers to see New Mexico and the tax credits offered as a place to shoot their series. “Having “Sign the Show” in our festival along with an ASL interpreter was such a powerful experience for our audience which included a Board Member who is hearing impaired, we knew we had to do more to advance this change in our festival and hopefully other festivals will follow.”Īlso new for 2023 is the call for Television Pilots. “We wanted to take steps to advocate for filmmakers to have their films include closed-captioning with their submissions as a way to bring together the community at large and include those movie lovers who have a hearing disability,” said Stephanie Piche, Executive Director of the Santa Fe Film Festival. The 2022 Festival programming included a film from director, Cat Brewer, “Sign the Show,” which sheds light on the lack of inclusion for live shows and the limitation faced by those going to theaters to watch movies. New to the 2023 Festival will be the ask for filmmakers to work to provide closed-captioning with their films by providing an SRT file or burned-in subtitles to be more inclusive of the deaf community. This year, the festival held two filmmaker awards luncheons, two red carpet events with press interviews and photos, workshops on promoting your film, how to finance your film, working with producing partners, how to ensure integrity with your project by vetting elements, a Casting Master Class from Sony Television Executive, and a presentation from Casting Society to round out the festival’s program to enrich and support independent filmmakers and help them with resources for their next project. In addition to awarding 22 winners and two individuals for their work, awards also included the first-ever CSA Casting Director awards. The festival selected 168 films and had 91 filmmakers and their teams in attendance over the 10-day festival with Q&As following the screenings so the filmmakers could connect with their audience. There were 505 films from 36 countries submitted to the 22nd edition of the Santa Fe Film Festival. Original Article starts here -Īfter a successful, in-person, and online viewing festival, the Santa Fe Film Festival team is ready for 2023 submissions and has opened a new category for television pilots and encourages filmmakers to include closed-captioning with their films for more inclusion. In this Variety article “ Film Festival Accessibility to Be Assessed in New Scorecard Initiative” you can learn more about this initiative and even check out this toolkit from FWD-Doc: įind out more about this movement and why it was important for SFFF to listen to Kat, the filmmaker for Sign the Show and ask for festival filmmakers to consider this when sending their submissions. June 1, 2022: Update to this post – Earlier this year The Santa Fe Film Festival made a call to future filmmakers regarding their submissions to provide an SRT file or burned-in subtitles to be more inclusive of the deaf community.
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