Hybrid Filmocracy Fest III Concludes and Award Winners Announced

The Festival moreover presented the second edition of its Mucosa Market, a curated environment for self-sustaining filmmakers to come together and connect with industry leaders. This unique event streamlines the mucosa vanquishment process, removing intermediaries and permitting talent to present their work directly to executives. In its successful first edition, films were uninventive and brought to Cannes for sales opportunities and distribution deals.

“I participated in the first Filmocracy virtual market and found it to be so productive and enjoyable that I didn’t hesitate to participate in the next one (and increasingly ongoing in the future),” recalls Archstone Entertainment’s Jack Sheehan. “Not only was I impressed by the tech and the ease, efficacy, and intuitiveness of the platform, it seemed to spritz scrutinizingly effortlessly. I was lucky unbearable to find several projects I liked, one of which I unquestionably sealed a deal on and brought to the physical Cannes festival a month later, and we’re latter a multitude of deals, to both our and the filmmaker’s delight. I think this platform is top of the competition of virtual markets and will be a mainstay for years to come. Selfishly I hope not too many of my competitors find out well-nigh it!”

The number of participating buyers, sales agents, and distribution companies grew significantly since the last event. The robust list of participants for the second edition included some of the largest global mucosa companies: Sundance, Endeavor Content, Blue Fox, 13 Film, XYZ Films, The Exchange, Radiant Films International, and Periphery, amongst many others. Some of the films up for sale included Steve Balderson’s ALCHEMY OF THE SPIRIT, Nicholas deKay’s THE ARK OF LILBURN, Austin Chapman’s LACRIMOSA, Christine Yoo’s 26.2 TO LIFE: THE SAN QUENTIN PRISON MARATHON, and Katie O’Regan’s GOOD MORNING MISS AMERICA. Amidst films picked up by top-name companies are Daniel Diosdad’s THE NOMAD (for international sales by Archstone Entertainment) and Juan P. Reyes’ SAMLAND (for South Korean rights by Strana Media), with negotiations ongoing for many increasingly projects.

Liquid Media Group’s Co-Founder and Interim CEO Joshua Jackson shares, “Liquid Media is very proud to be, for the second time, presenting sponsors of Filmocracy Fest. It is personnel to what we do to be worldly-wise to support emerging storytellers, emerging voices, inside of our community. I’ve unchangingly felt very proud and very lucky to be part of this big, wild, funny, crazy—sometimes difficult—global polity of storytellers, whether in front of the camera or overdue it. Filmocracy Fest exists to uplift the community, to make it easier for us to find each other and our audiences, and the wing of the market is an wondrous new tool for filmmakers. We couldn’t be happier to support this and squint forward to seeing you at the next one.”

Film Market attendees paid a nominal fee of $100, with a VIP option misogynist for $500 that unliable passholders to skip queues. The in-person portion of the event kicked off with a cocktail party, followed by initial meetings at LA Gondola. The pursuit day, filmmakers had four minutes to rapid-fire pitch their films to their preferred media partners, either in person or digitally. Attendees were moreover invited to Opening Night of Filmocacy Fest to gloat their cinematic achievements.

“I had a unconfined time peekaboo the Filmocracy Mucosa Market,” says Los Angeles-based writer/director/producer Debbie Peiser. “Filmocracy created an wondrous virtual wits from start to finish. I loved that they sent a brochure of which distributors would be peekaboo so I could research and prepare surpassing my meetings. It was so fun to sit in the virtual waiting room with other filmmakers. I was so impressed by the site diamond and I would definitely shepherd again!”

The Filmocracy Fest Mucosa Market has established itself, in a very short time, as a vibrant and highly sought-after marketplace for the discovery of films and filmmaking talent by top name producers, distributors, and production companies. Filmocracy’s CEO Paul Jun concludes, “Our Mucosa Market is filling an important need in the industry by putting filmmakers face-to-face with decisionmakers. Through our virtual platform we’re worldly-wise to foster industry relationships for filmmakers who lack a professional network.”

About Filmocracy:
Filmocracy is a mucosa and festival streaming platform that hosts over 100 mucosa festivals each year and has a constantly evolving and rotating library of increasingly than 3,500 streaming titles. Users are rewarded with virtual popcorn for watching and rating films, which can be spent in their shop to earn movie tickets, redeem souvenir cards, or shepherd virtual mucosa festivals hosted from virtually the world. Filmocracy brings together a powerful combination of technologies to enhance the virtual talkie and priming wits for filmmakers, industry professionals, and audiences virtually the world. Filmocracy’s mission is to help all self-sustaining filmmakers reach wider audiences and grow their communities through storytelling. Festival Co-Founder Paul Jun serves as CEO of Filmocracy. In December 2020, Filmocracy staged the First Annual Filmocracy Fest, an all-digital juried mucosa festival presenting a slate of 44 films; panels; mentorship program; live performances; script readings; cause-related partners; and dozens of virtual conversations with directors and industry talent. Jon Fitzgerald serves as Executive Director.

*Press release courtesy of Henry Eshelman, Platform Media Group