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What Filmmakers Should Probably Know About Film Festivals by Daniel Sol [HollyShorts Co-Founder] via FilmCourage.com.
Film Courage: How many submissions has Hollyshorts received each of the past five years?
Daniel Sol, Co-Founder of the Hollyshorts Film Festival: So five years ago we were at around 2,000 or so submissions for that year.This past year we received 5,000 or so submissions, so in-between that we’ve gone from 2,000 to 5,000 for the last 5 years increased around 500 or so for each of those years. So 2,000, 2,500, 3,000, 3,500, so on and so forth. To now last year we’re at 5,000 submissions for the 14th year. This is our 15th year coming up and we’re expecting potentially 6,000 submissions. That’s a big increase and we might jump up a thousand this year based on averages. Of course, early-bird deadline is coming up next Friday so we’re estimating where it could be. We’ve seen a big jump these last five years definitely.Film Courage: Very cool. Of those multi-thousand plus films that you’ve received since the inception of Hollyshorts how many would you say you’ve personally watched?Daniel: A lot. I say it used to be 100 %, now it’s not as possible with the amount of films and a lot of family and new duties and things on top of that. It’s probably a good at least 80% of all films...(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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