🎬 1:1 Film Festival Strategy Session
with Heather Brittain
Festival Programmer. Filmmaker. Founder of Film Festival Insider.
You didn’t spend years making your film just to throw submissions at FilmFreeway and hope for the best.
Your film deserves a strategy.
This private 60-minute session is designed for filmmakers who are ready to stop guessing and start approaching the festival circuit with more clarity, confidence, and intention.
Whether you’re preparing for your first submission wave, protecting your premiere status, navigating rejections, or trying to position your film more effectively, this session gives you direct strategic guidance tailored specifically to your project and goals.
Because getting selected is not just about making a good film.
It’s about understanding:
• where your film belongs
• how to position it
• when to submit
• what materials are helping or hurting you
• and how to build meaningful momentum beyond one screening
🎯 What We Can Cover
(Every session is personalized based on your film and where you are in the process.)
• Festival strategy and submission planning
• Premiere status and rollout timing
• FilmFreeway optimization and positioning
• Synopsis, logline, poster, trailer, and EPK feedback
• Which festivals actually make sense for your film
• Submission budgeting and avoiding costly mistakes
• Publicity, networking, and audience-building
• IMDb, Letterboxd, and online visibility
• How to navigate rejections strategically
• Festival etiquette, Q&As, and industry relationships
• What to do after acceptances start coming in
As both a filmmaker and festival programmer, Heather brings insight from both sides of the process: what filmmakers need to understand and what programmers are actually responding to.
This is not generic advice.
This is personalized strategy built around your film, your goals, and the career momentum you are trying to create.
🎥 What’s Included
✔️ 60-minute private Zoom strategy session
✔️ Pre-call intake form so we can maximize our time together
✔️ Review of up to 30 minutes of your film before the session
✔️ Personalized recommendations and actionable next steps
💸 Investment: $347
📅 Limited availability each month.
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💬 Questions? [email protected]
Your film is more than a project.
It is a calling card for the opportunities you want next.
Once your purchase is complete, you will be redirected to my scheduling calendar to book your session. Hours offered for zoom consults are typically on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. If the days/times available on my calendar do not work with your schedule, please email [email protected] to request to book a different date/time.
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Ellen Ancui
Oh my gosh, Heather! I knew you would have the perfect answer and solution for this dilemma. I so appreciate your expertise in this area, you’re such a help!
Robert Mandelberg & Nika Stewart
I want you to know how much Nika and I appreciate your support and guidance these past few months. You helped to make our first festival experience truly special, and I’m so very grateful. And the award was an incredible icing on the cake! We met so many fascinating people and will never forget this weekend. Of course, we must have said “I really wish Heather was here” to each other at least a dozen times.
Jessica Sherr
Before I sought out Heather's advice, I felt like I was totally lost and overwhelmed by the submission process. Since working with Heather on our festival strategy, we have greatly increased our acceptance rate and are winning so many more awards. Heather is wonderful to work with.
Emmet Loverde
Heather was very helpful with some great ideas about which festivals I should target (which ones | should not target) and ways to make the movie more attractive to those particular festivals. Thank you, Heather!
Ms. Eagle
I actually started working with Heather at Film Festival lnsider. She has a whole program, but I just did a couple 1-hour zoom consultations, and learned so much!
Steven Lifshey
It’s been exciting! You’ll be glad to know that since taking your class, it has thus far been mostly acceptances!
Joshua Shull
If you have a film on the festival circuit, I would highly recommend a one on one session with Film Festival Insider, and check out Heather's online course, to gain insight into your festival submission strategy, which can save thousands of dollars, and tons of time in the long run.
