You've finished a film. Now how do you get it programmed at your preferred festival? Samah Ali is a film festival strategist, meaning she works with documentary directors and producers to achieve their film festival goals. Samah is also a distributor and film programmer at Academy Award-qualifying festivals like Hot Docs, DOC NYC, Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. In this episode, Samah discusses how to think about premiere status, submission vs solicitation-based film festivals, and what a strategist like herself can bring to the table. Check out Samah's blog: https://stratali.net/ Samah Ali on Twitter Rough Cut on Instagram Jennie Butler on Instagram Sky Dylan-Robbins on Instagram Video Consortium on Instagram Click here to support the Video Consortium *Special thanks to Amy DiGiacomo for helping us produce this episode*