InFestation :: Film Festival Strategy & Management

Experience

InFestation is managed by Linda Kearns who has over 10 years industry experience, seven of those in film festivals and markets.

She most recently worked with Arclight Films as their Festivals & Markets Manager, acting as their key liaison between all film festivals and producers.

Whilst there she implemented the use of customised festival strategies by film; developed a tiered and prioritised ongoing list of festivals; plus fostered and researched relationships with new up-and-coming festivals and created a festival back history database for all films Arclight had represented.

Linda has coordinated festivals for over 75 films including NOISE (which played recently at Sundance 2007) and MACBETH (Toronto 2006) and liaised with a multitude of festivals from around the globe.

She has a BA Communications majoring in Film & Television production and a Grad Dip in Screenwriting from the University of Technology Sydney. Her own short films have been selected for numerous international festivals around the world.

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