The events of Film Festival Circuit have been created to give filmmakers from around the world an opportunity to screen their creative work in front of a live audience.
Currently we have 9 Film Festival Events that occur multiple times per year. 4 events in Oregon and 5 events in Texas.
Venue Sponsor
- A $1500 cash or credit to help us offset the cost of our venue rental. We can accept more films and screenplays if we can reduce the cost of our venue rental. Increasing our budget gives us more time to screen films and have live screenplay readings. This is our core mission value.
$250+ Pre-purchase a block of tickets that you or we can use for give-aways and promotions. Sponsors will receive:
- a hyperlinked banner on the event page they are sponsoring.
- a logo included in the “sponsored by” section of our printed materials.
- distribution of your printed materials or coupons to every attendee.
$500 - Help us market the event with Google Ads. We use keyword marketing for improved discoverability on Google. Sponsors will receive:
- a hyperlinked banner on the event page they are sponsoring.
- a logo included in the “sponsored by” section of our printed materials.
- distribution of your printed materials or coupons to every attendee.
$500 - Help us offset the labor cost of our event photography and editing. This helps us give the filmmakers a memorable experience with high quality photos.
- Sponsors will have premium placement of their logo added to all of our printed materials.
- distribution of your printed materials or coupons to every attendee.
$500 - Help us expand our budget for printing award certificates, attendee badges, posters and signs.
- sponsors will have premium placement of their logo added to all of our printed materials.
- distribution of your printed materials or coupons to every attendee.
$1000 - Help us offset the cost of creating marketing videos that we use on social media to promote the event. (typically 100 short videos per event) Sponsors will receive:
- a logo and hyperlink added to all social media.
- a logo included in the “sponsored by” section of our printed materials
- distribution of your printed materials or coupons to every attendee.
$1000 - Help us market the event in local print media. We have run ¼ page ads in several newspapers to promote our upcoming events. One Sponsor will receive:
- a logo added to our print media ads.
In addition:
- a logo included in the “sponsored by” section of our printed materials.
- distribution of your printed materials or coupons to every attendee.
Every film festival that we operate has it's own group of paid local judges for each event. Our core team manages the judges, file delivery, live event staff, graphic design, web design, marketing, promotions, media, and legal responsibilities of our core company.
Founder of Film Festival Circuit, LLC in 2008, Mikel is the director of 10 ongoing film festivals in the United States. Mikel worked in production from 1999-2015 as a Sound Mixer, Field Producer and Production Manager on Feature Films and Television.
Mikel Fair
Festival Director
With 15 years of television experience as a script supervisor, Juan leads our group of judges on a mission to find the best content for the San Antonio audience.
Juan Montero
TSFF Lead Festival Judge
With 20 years of Film Festival Judging Experience, Etienne leads our group of judges on a mission to find the best content for the Austin After Dark Film Festival.
AADFF Lead Festival Judge
Collects feedback from the judges in each market and creates social media videos for promotional purposes.
Judging Coordinator
Our graphic designer since the Houston Comedy Film Festival started accepting submission in 2008. Mario has created every logo, certificate and badge image for our events.
Graphic Designer
Our Production Manager in charge of projection, file delivery, file management and event manager. Zeami is a jack of all trades, working to keep our film festival system optimized and organized.