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I am a film festival organizer and would like to share my experience. Our festival hosted a public screening on July 15, which took place as planned. The event was attended by guests and winners, and complete documentation was submitted to the platform, including event photos and an official venue rental invoice. At the time, support confirmed that everything was in order. Approximately six months later, the festival was set to non-public following an allegation that the listed venue was falsified. Despite repeatedly providing evidence from my side (photos, invoice, and email correspondence) and requesting clarification, this documentation was not accepted, and no specific evidence supporting the allegation was provided. I am sharing this experience to highlight the importance of clear communication and transparent verification processes for festival organizers.

I’m new to producing short films. I was recommended Filmfreeway.com by a fellow student in my masters documentary course. I entered a short fictional film in to some festivals and a short documentary into other festivals. So far three festival notification dates have come and gone without any response from any of the festivals. My films are still “under consideration” for three festivals despite one of them apparently taking place in three days. It feels like filmfreeway.com don’t take any responsibility for scam or pseudo festivals being on their website. Are they getting a cut from the fees struggling film makers pay to these rip off festivals? If so I find that despicable.

Ottimo film di Stefan Ziegler che racconta la verità

Perhaps it was okay when it started out but now it's stuffed to the gills with scammers and spammers. Opportunists make a killing here from desperate filmmakers and nobody checks their bona fides. Film Freeway should shut down. They don't bother filtering out even the obviously dishonest ones like, for eg. /mnicff and they provide no way for people to report these chancers and rent-seekers preying on first-time filmmakers. Short Film Depot and others charge a small extra fee but at least take their job seriously. The sooner FF goes out of business the better, but, like its festivals, will probably just re-brand and pop up again elsewhere...!

So many fake or fraudulent festivals. One for example, had us selected as Semi-Finalists. I sent them an email asking what does it mean and if we are going to be screened. After sending it, I see they changed the status to our film Not Selected. I complained about this to FilmFreeway (also several times in the past about festivals not respecting their terms or notification dates - one for example demanded Spanish subtitles afterwards even if their official rules, this wasn't mentioned) and they said that there is nothing they can do. They don't have any enforcement system except to send an email to the festival which of course, didn't help at all. I wasted so much money over the years on this platform and only this year I realize how much of a scam it all is. You have no way to verify what the fee is for, if anybody even watched your movie, let alone actually receive feedback. All you get are automatic e-mails.

Very disappointing experience with FilmFreeway. I was charged unexpected fees which was due to their website /operations bug. When I raised this with support, I received no support - their response was arrogant, insistent on their policy without even trying to understand the situation and the bug I reported, no apology and no solution. Besides this fee, there were also lots of spam emails without respect for customer privacy and data, lots of scam festivals, and FilmFreeway should really treat customers with more respect. I really hope the market gets more competition, as right now it seems that they are monopoly and this has clearly fostered bad behaviour. I would really limit my use of this site in the future wherever I can.

NEVER DO FILM FREEWAY IF YOU MAKE FILMS

Low quality website with lots of scam festivals.