Film Festival Strategy

Gabby Follett and Kate E. Hinshaw will breakdown film festival strategy specific to your film. This means looking over your materials and matching you with film festivals based on budget, mode, genre, etc. Additional office hours will be available for follow ups.

Gabby Follett (Any Pronouns) is an Experimental Media Artist who makes films, videos, prints, and expanded cinema works that explore issues of race, migration, sexual orientation, gender identity, and ability status. Gabby is also an Assistant Professor of Film Production at the University of Rhode Island and the creator of This Week in Experimental, a weekly newsletter focused on providing resources to experimental artists seeking creative, intellectual, and exhibition opportunities.

Kate E. Hinshaw (She/her) is a filmmaker, artist, and cinematographer whose work draws from personal experience and uses analog filmmaking techniques to explore themes of memory, mythology, southern folklore, and obscured narratives lost in history. Her films have screened at festivals including SXSW, Rooftop Films, New Orleans Film Festival, Denver Film Festival, and Indie Memphis. In 2019, she started Analog Cookbook as a way to build community with other analog filmmakers and share resources openly. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Cinematic Arts Department at the University of Iowa.