Online Festival Entries
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 6:22 pm
There are several services which aim to make it easier for film makers to enter festivals. In turn that is good for festivals. Most of them allow you to fill in details of your film once and not have to repeat it all for every festival. They usually allow you to send the film either on DVD, memory stick or other solid media ... or to upload it to their site, where it can be seen only by the festivals in which it is entered,
The famous name is Without-a-Box https://www.withoutabox.com but it has not been liked by smaller non-commercial events because of the fees it charges to film makers and, especially, to festivals.
Ned Cordery pointed out to me that there is now a Canadian challenger: Filmfreeway https://filmfreeway.com/. It costs the film maker nothing. If the festival has no entry fee it costs the festival nothing, otherwise it takes 8.5% of the entry fee.
There are various other similar systems operating on modest scales and usually with modest fee:
https://festhome.com/
http://www.reelport.com/
http://www.shortfilmcentral.com/
http://www.shortfilmdepot.com/
http://www.uptofest.com/en/quienes_somos
http://www.clickforfestivals.com/
http://www.filmfestivallife.com/
http://www.festivalfocus.org/
http://festival.movibeta.com/web/contro ... roller.php
There may be more that I have not discovered. Of course for most of them their target is the indie film makers, people on the edge of the commercial world and hoping to make their careers there. But since most film makers say their real aim is to get their work seen ... these offer ways that are less hassle than researching festival, burning discs, packaging them up and sending off international money transfers.
Dave
The famous name is Without-a-Box https://www.withoutabox.com but it has not been liked by smaller non-commercial events because of the fees it charges to film makers and, especially, to festivals.
Ned Cordery pointed out to me that there is now a Canadian challenger: Filmfreeway https://filmfreeway.com/. It costs the film maker nothing. If the festival has no entry fee it costs the festival nothing, otherwise it takes 8.5% of the entry fee.
There are various other similar systems operating on modest scales and usually with modest fee:
https://festhome.com/
http://www.reelport.com/
http://www.shortfilmcentral.com/
http://www.shortfilmdepot.com/
http://www.uptofest.com/en/quienes_somos
http://www.clickforfestivals.com/
http://www.filmfestivallife.com/
http://www.festivalfocus.org/
http://festival.movibeta.com/web/contro ... roller.php
There may be more that I have not discovered. Of course for most of them their target is the indie film makers, people on the edge of the commercial world and hoping to make their careers there. But since most film makers say their real aim is to get their work seen ... these offer ways that are less hassle than researching festival, burning discs, packaging them up and sending off international money transfers.
Dave