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Choosing a Film Festival Software that Delivers

Your Step-by-Step guide to Film Festival Softwares

 
Does your Film Festival Management Tool offer the following?

1. Easy Integration to your Home Website

An ideal Film Festival Management Software boasts easy integration to your home website. With the same logos, banners, and overall branding, you can ensure that the festival landing page shares the look and feel of your home website, so that submitters know where exactly they are submitting their works to.

2. Quick and Easy Project Submission

A good Film Festival Management Software should be able to support large submissions handily. Speed is crucial as well – often times these feature-length submissions will take hours to upload, and there are ways to speed up that process. The newest technology involves something called a Filestack Content Ingestion network, which lets you optimize speed on the upload front using different upload “nodes” that exist in different points across the world, speeding up the overall submission process.

3. Easy Review

Look for a software that lets your selection and review committee easily access assigned upload links, view them, and score them in one simple and linear process. Ensure whether or not it lets you control who sees and scores each submission, if there are separate categories that different judges are being assigned to.

4. Intuitive Backend Analytics and Admin Tools

By using a Film Festival Management Dashboard that shows the status of each submissions, your festival administrators will have ample time to fix anything if something goes wrong. Last minute changes are pretty frequent for film submissions, so by helping admins immediately locate which content is where, quick changes are easy and confusion on what the final copy is can be eliminated.

5. Film Information and Submission Materials

If you get far enough to the interview stage, know that the best advice you can get is to remain true to yourself. With enough practice, you’ll be able to get to a stage where you can freely talk about the details of the project you’re trying to do and why the fellowship committee should consider you for the prize – but all rehearsals should end there. Make sure that the review committee gets to see your personality and get to know you as a person before a candidate.

6. Logistics and Fees

Your Film Festival Management Software should be able to process submission fees through all payment systems, create submission fee discount codes, and offer secure and trustworthy transactions all conducted through the software’s payment platform.

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