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Agnes Varnum is a freelance writer, film programmer and communications manager for the Austin Film Society. She is the primary contributor to doc it out and Tribeca Film Institute's Resources.

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Results from IFP

October 18th, 2007 • Related Posts • Tags

From the Filmmaker magazine e-newsletter, “ has announced a number of sales and financing which took place at – or immediately following – this year’s Market. Bari Pearlman sold US distribution rights for her documentary feature Daughters of Wisdom to Seventh Art Releasing. Danae Elon pre-sold her documentary The Evil Tongue to Finnish public television. Canadian public broadcaster CBC Newsworld announced that it made pre-sale offers, and is currently in discussions with, three of this year’s documentary works-in-progress, including Goold’s Gold by Tucker Capps and Ryan Sevy, Cornered by Eric Drath, and If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, by Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman. Finally, San Francisco-based Chicken & Egg Pictures has also awarded completion grants of $10,000 each to three female documentary filmmakers. The awarded projects included Dee Rees’s Eventual Salvation, Luisa Dantas’s Land of Opportunity: The New New Orleans, and Yolanda Pividal’s Tijuana Nada Más.” I thought you might like to hear some of the results since I was pitching the Market pretty hard.

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  1. Comment by Bob Alexander on 19 October 2007:

    I understand that there were 200 or so films at the IFP event in New York — but that there were 10,000 submissions for consideration to be part of the event! Wow! Do you think that’s right? (that’s a qn!)

    I would say that if that’s the kind of submission to particiption ratio this event has, it has to be an important arena for understanding what films will in fact emerge in the following festival cycle.

  2. Comment by agnes on 25 October 2007:

    No, I know they don’t have 10,000 submissions. 200 refers to docs, emerging narrative and No Borders scripts. In the doc section, the year I managed it, we had about 500 works-in-progress, completed shorts and features. Given that I saw the closets of scripts, I’d say there were probably 300 or so script submissions for the other sections. If they are up to 1000 total, that wouldn’t be totally far fetched. They told me they have about a 20% acceptance rate, so that all jives. Still pretty competitive.