Festival strategy and international film sales.Liliana Bravo Bitar, film consultant since 1998.

Video transcript (English translation)

Have you finished your film and don’t know where to start? Have you ever submitted to the wrong festival? Or did you think that, if your film was good, a platform like Netflix would want it, and it didn’t?

It’s not about quality, it’s about fit. This industry has two sides that hardly ever talk to each other: the one that makes films and the one that decides what gets bought and programmed. And very often nobody explains those rules before you make the mistake: you submit where you shouldn’t, or you expect from a platform something only a festival can give you.

I’m Liliana, from Vicky Liliana Barcelona. I’ve been in the film industry for more than 25 years and I’ve worked on both sides: production and sales. I know how a festival programmer thinks and how a buyer thinks.

With one look at your film, together with my team, I can tell which festivals it should go to, what poster it needs and what it’s missing before you take the next step. It’s a complete consultancy: we analyse its real potential and tell you, honestly, which way to go. And if you want to go further, we support you through the whole process: outreach, negotiation and sale.