In just five short years, FootageFest has become the fastest-growing content expo in the world.
The main function of FootageFest is to bring content buyers and sellers together, as well as celebrating the innovative repurposing of third-party content.
Our industry segregates us from each other for no rational reason, and then makes a huge deal when it creates events that bring us together. FootageFest doesn’t wait for its members to find us – we cast a huge net and successfully recruit the top content professionals in the industry to join us, to learn with us, and to celebrate with us.
Everyone in the industry that touches third-party content at all is invited into the circle: “Users” are not only made up of researchers and clearance folks, but writers, directors, producers and editors. Likewise, “Providers” are not just made up of stock footage professionals, but TV and film studio licensing reps, production companies, independent shooters, and news and viral video agencies.
FootageFest is the essential meeting point for the archive community to network, share insights, and discover rare content.
Growing exponentially every year, FootageFest continues to attract dozens of niche footage libraries, hundreds of archive and clearance professionals, producers, studio licensing reps, and regional footage research reps from Toronto, Mexico City, New York, as well as across the Atlantic – from the U.K., Ireland and, yes, The Middle East.
Finding the right archive footage can be a challenge – FootageFest makes it easier by bringing content and contacts together in one place. No region is too small, no language is too complex. FootageFest unites all of us to learn, discuss, challenge, and celebrate this amazing industry we have made our home.