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This Is How You Do It: 10 Filmmaking Tips from Mark and Jay Duplass By Paula Bernstein and Dana Harris | Indiewire January 28, 2015 at 5:31PM "Employ a strict 'No Assholes' policy" and more great advice from the filmmaking bros. Daniel Bergeron  Mark and Jay Duplass Mark and Jay Duplass are a ubiquitous presence at this year's Sundance Film Festival. They were involved with three Sundance films, "The Bronze," "The Overnight," and "Tangerine" and an animated TV pilot ("Animals"). In addition to dominating Sundance, Netflix used the festival as occasion to announce that the brothers signed a four-movie deal, while HBO announced that the network will renew their show, "Togetherness." In other words, it's been a good week for the brothers. READ MORE: Jay & Mark Duplass on Selling TV at Sundance At the Producers Brunch at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25th (where their producing pa...

How to Make the Most of the Festival Circuit Film Independent  >  Blog  > How to Make the Most of the Festival Circuit HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT Why take your movie to a film festival? It seems like a funny question—doesn’t everyone want to premiere at Los Angeles Film Festival or Sundance or Toronto? But earlier this month when festival insider Peter Belsito of  SydneysBuzz  came to Film Independent to talk about festival strategy, he asked it quite seriously. “They only cost money,” he said. “You don’t make any money at a festival. Why do you want to go there? To get a deal? You can probably forget that. Sundance in their biggest year had 30 deals. And even a lot of those were just representation deals—they weren’t distribution or anything. So why do you want to go to these events?” The answer: Marketing. “To get the review,” Belsito said. “To meet the people from the trade. That’s why you go to these events. S...

Image from Blue Jasmine - Cate Blanchett http://www.indiewire.com/article/10-things-every-film-festival-wants-filmmakers-to-know 1. Programmers love filmmakers 2. Don’t tell every festival you are waiting to hear from Sundance. 3. There is no conspiracy against you. 4. Festival programming is a balancing act. 5. Don't harass festival programmers. Read more by  LAURIE KIRBY   http://www.indiewire.com/article/10-things-every-film-festival-wants-filmmakers-to-know