Strategy and Planning for Successful Festival Run with Cedric Hill (F ’21)
May
15
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
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Enhance your expertise in strategic planning for a winning festival circuit at our upcoming event, featuring acclaimed filmmaker and director Cedric Hill. Gain exclusive access to Cedric’s wealth of experience as he unveils the key tactics behind a successful film festival campaign. Through a critical analysis of his recent film’s, NOISY (2023), festival run, Cedric will provide invaluable insights into planning, effective strategy development, and how to leverage partnerships for success with festivals and distribution. Don’t miss this chance to learn from Cedric Hill, a distinguished 2021 VCFA graduate and master storyteller, and elevate your festival success.
Cedric has always loved telling stories…
With experience as a production manager, writer, and producer, Cedric Hill is one of the industry’s most well-rounded directors of theatre and film.
His last film, Noisy was recently awarded Best Short at The American Pavillion of Emerging Filmmakers at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Noisy, also won awards at l, The Indie Gathering International Film Festival, New Age Cinemas & Scripts, Silver Mask Live Festival (Los Angeles), Cambria Film Festival of Romance, Love, and Rom-coms, California Indies, World London Film Festival, Cinema Touching Disability, and Stonybrook Film Festival.
Over the years, he has worked at major venues such as the Public Theatre, NJPAC, and the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theatre (West Side Y), The New Victory Theater and collaborated with luminaries such as Maggie Reed, Marcia Gay Harden, and Sutton Foster.
In 2005, he founded To & Fro Productions, a film company dedicated to telling gripping stories with depth and sophistication. As executive producer, he wears many hats: from developing scripts, creating budgets, and casting to writing, engineering production strategy, and directing.
His most recent, My Friend, has won awards at Silver Mask Live Festival (Los Angeles), Indo-French International Film Festival, The Flight Deck Film Festival, and Accord Cine Fest. He is a member of The Stage Directors and Choreographers (SDC).