Pegah Ahangarani at the Film Festival in Paris.

Basically, film festivals will assist filmmakers with marketing in 3 ways:

• Awards

Winning awards is definitely great when it comes to making film posters much more attractive. Obviously, how reputable the festival is will drastically influence how important the award is. Will the passerby potentially take into account the award when deciding whether or not to buy a ticket at the cinema? When the laurel is issued by a well-known movie festival, like Raindance, it will.

• Interviews And Reviews

Attending film festivals is great for the independent movie makers since it is going to increase movie hype. You get the local bloggers and countless reviewers to watch the movie. If it is good, reviews will be very good and more people will want to watch the movies since they follow the reviewers or the local bloggers. At the same time, people involved in the creation of the films will be interviewed, which will also increase awareness.