PODCAST | Diego Aparicio interviews Angelique Muller, festival programmer of the Valletta Film Festival.
Angelique Muller is a programmer at the Valletta Film Festival (VFF). From 2019, the festival will dedicate its competition to production from 34 small nations in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, with filmmakers invited to attend for 2-3 days. Other sections at VFF include: Islanders; Without Boarders; Teens Only; and Masters of Cinema. VFF is currently the largest film festival in Malta.
During the 2019 edition of New Horizons, we talked to some of the participants of the ICO’s course for festival professionals, “Developing Your Film Festival”. “Developing Your Film Festival” is an intensive training program for professionals working in the festival industry. The training is organized by the London Independent Cinema Office. Each year, it is held as a part of a different European film festival. So far participants of more than 170 film festivals around the globe took part in “Developing Your Film Festival”. The instructors were experts of Berlinale, Hot Docs, as well as Rotterdam and Toronto film festivals. Training participants will have the opportunity to learn how to increase their audience, promote the festival internationally, gain sponsors and more.