Q&A: I’ve made a short film? Now what?

Question by Mike: I’ve made a short film? Now what?
I’ve been making movies for about a decade now. Over the years I have been able to collect high end gear and learn professional techniques. I have made a short film, about 30 minutes long, and I don’t know where to go from here. This is not a joe-schoe youtube video that me and my friends make one weekend. I need to know where do I go from here.
The local theaters are big chain theaters and I’m not sure if they would air my movie, but I don’t even know who I would need to contact for this information.
iTunes has a whole section for short movies. This section is where my movie would probably fit in.

Best answer:

Answer by Chris S.
You can submit it to film festivals.

You can try to make it available on iTunes.

You can upload it to Vimeo.

Unfortunately, film festival programmers don’t like 30 minute short films. They like “shorts” that are not longer than 10 or 15 minutes.

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