Empowering Filmmakers Worldwide

Skills You Will Acquire:

  • Strategic planning and positioning of films for festival success

  • Networking and relationship-building within the film industry

  • Understanding of film distribution channels and cinema venues

  • Crafting compelling submission materials and avoiding disqualification pitfalls

  • Technical proficiency in providing optimal film files for final screening

  • Creating effective electronic press kits for film promotion

  • Approaching key industry players, sales agents, film investors, and financiers with confidence

  • Exploring a variety of film funding alternatives, equity and reward-based crowdfunding

What You Will Learn:

  • Identifying and targeting the right festivals for your film

  • Building Your Own Exposure

  • Understanding Traditional and Online Film Distribution

  • Crafting an Effective Film Submission

  • Providing Film Festival With the Right Film File (e.g. DCP files).

  • Building the Ideal Electronic Press Kit (EPK)

  • Understanding Equity Finance, Film Funding, and Distribution Strategies

  • Approaching film investors, financiers, and sales agents with confidence

Advanced Film Course

Let's celebrate independent, diversity-driven, auteur films together.

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Based in London, MiraBan specialises in promoting underground cinema and independent, diversity-driven, international film events. Our passion for bold and thought-provoking cinema has led us to showcase some of the most innovative and exciting independent movies from around the world.

Our annual event, the MiraBan UK Film Awards (MUFA), supported by the BFI Film Exhibition Fund in 2024, highlights under-represented, new, and experienced filmmakers, connecting them with film funders and distributors. Recently, we launched the MiraBan Independent Film Fund to help make short films and ensured valuable partnerships to create great opportunities for both cast and crew.

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