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Article: Swimming Upstream: A Livesaving Guide to Short Film Distribution
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- March 1, 2008
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Swimming Upstream: A Livesaving Guide to Short Film Distribution
By Sharon Badal
Focal Press
www.focalpress.com
You've made a short, shown it to your mates, had the obligatory family screening and sent it to random festivals, all in the hopes of fame and fortune and getting closer to the long-form holy grail. But you don't succeed. Rejection becomes all too familiar. But it was a great film. So what have you done wrong? Never fear, help has arrived and it comes in the form of this 300-page paperback.
Sharon Badal, veteran Short Film Programmer of the Tribeca Film Festival and juror on numerous ...