SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY: Ep. 503 – Film Festival Success with Writer/Director Julia Bergeron

Julia Bergeron talks about her film projects and gives tips on how to submit to film festivals and have success on your film festival run.

This week Ashley Scott Meyers talks with filmmaker Julia Bergeron.

Our guest, Julia Bergeron is the Writer/Director of the shorts That Last Girl (2023) and Porch Light (2019). She also is a Co-Writer of the Horror feature Murder Van (2023) along with Writer/Director Chad Ridgely.

Julia talks about those projects and gives tips on how to submit to film festivals and have success on your film festival run. Topics also include working several jobs on set and the importance of doing a tech scout in a certain way.

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Ashley Scott Meyers is a screenwriter and blogger / podcaster. Since beginning his career as a screenwriter in the late 1990’s he’s optioned more than two dozen feature screenplays and sold a half dozen. And he’s done it all without an agent or manager, instead opting to use his pragmatic screenplay marketing guide which he teaches at SellingYourScreenplay.com.