Price: Pay What You Feel - £2 / £4 / £6 / £8 or £10 per session
- Directed by: Haresh Sood
- Duration: 180min
- Certificate: UC
- Festival / Season: Weekly Film Courses
Making a film is only half the challenge. The other half is getting people to watch it.
Whether you have made a film at university or independently, one of the biggest obstacles filmmakers face is finding an audience, securing screenings and creating a marketing strategy that gives the film a life beyond the edit suite.
This unique four-part course explores the practical realities of film distribution and audience development. Learn how to build viewership whilst making your film, create effective trailers and posters, organise screenings, approach cinemas, generate reviews and create effective social media content.
Drawing on their experiences, having taken two independent documentaries to cinemas across the UK and abroad including OTT platforms, Filmmaker and Barrister Haresh Sood and Editor Will Silvester will teach lessons on mistakes and strategies they wish they had known when they started.
This is a unique filmmaking course that begins where most film courses end.
Please note, Haresh’s dog Pancho will be present giving Pawtographs throughout all sessions. Please see a picture of Pancho here.
Each session is standalone, and must be booked individually. Please see below for the content of each session:
Sat 29 Aug - Session 1: Audience Development and Production Considerations
Sat 26 Sep - Session 2: Getting a Film Seen
Sat 24 Oct - Session 3: Marketing a Documentary Film
Sat 21 Nov - Session 4: Legal compliance
Sat 5 Dec - Social and Screening
Social and Screening
Course attendees are invited to a private social screening to share and discuss their own short films. Whether you have a film idea, are in the middle of an edit, or wrapped, students at all stages are encouraged to attend this event. Course tutor Haresh Sood will give guidance and advice on next steps in your filmmaker journey.
This event will be in The Lounge at Broadway, box office can help direct you.
A full course overview is available here.
Tutors: Haresh Sood and Will Cocker
Duration: Four sessions, monthly
When: Saturday afternoons, 2pm-5pm - 29 Aug | 26 Sept | 24 Oct | 21 Nov
Price: Pay What You Feel - £2 / £4 / £6 / £8 or £10 per session
