Film Fervor Podcast |filmmaking | Crowdfunding |positivity |independent Film | Justin Kincaid

Today, I'm joined by Ben Hicks to talk about the online film festival he co-founded; The Fandependent Film Festival. Ben is a fellow filmmaker who has been working on his own film for the better part of ten years, working through multiple countries and following a couple along the decade of their lives. The Fandependent Film Festival has four festivals per year, one for every quarter, and is stacked with anywhere before forty to sixty feature films. They don't screen short films at all they focus on feature length films (50+ minutes) and they put them up on the site for free to watch all the time. It's a great thing to have your film put out on dedicated websites but what is more important and far more valuable than just putting it up on YouTube or Vimeo is getting a full distribution deal from an established distributor. While it might be easier to make a film these days, it's increasingly harder to get noticed. Getting your work seen is the greatest challenge facing independent filmmakers today. Fandependen