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One of the biggest reasons why filmmakers go to film festivals, including Cannes, is not just to showcase their films, but to network and make new industry contacts. In the final part of our 3-part series on how to Survive the Cannes Short Film Festival, filmmaker Lit Kilpatrick fills us in on how and where to network, including where to go and who to look out for, at the festival based on his own experience attending last year.
This is a guest post by Lit Kilpatrick.
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Go and make friends.This was among the best pieces of advice that I received before attending the festival. The invitation-only stipulation means that all Cannes attendees inside the Palais and International Village are film industry professionals of some kind. Spend a good deal of your time chatting with the wide variety of potential new contacts, such as festival programmers, film producers, distributors, investors, and sales agents, etc.
