FilmFreewayReviews of filmfreeway.com

I submitted to several legitimate film festivals, then had been receiving lots of prompts and didn't check as well as I could have – I've been listed as a semi-finalist in two festivals that don't appear to actually exist at all. This site is a scam, it has a lot of fake festivals and is taking a lot of money from people. UPDATE: The Film Freeway site got back to me, they have removed the two festivals that were scams and given the entry fees I paid as credit to apply for other festivals on their site. Please spend time doing a bit of extra research to ensure the festival you are submitting to is valid – one of the ones I submitted to had a website with winners listed (but not active links, the films were possibly made up) and an Instagram page which matched the style of the website and information on Film Freeway. The giveaway was that on the FilmFreeway site, there were lots of reviews from people who had been listed as "semi finalist" but no evidence of an actual event, or promotion of winners.

I recently had an unexpected and disappointing experience with the platform. When I tried to pay for one submission, all the other submissions in my cart were charged simultaneously. I had planned to spend $30, but instead, $270 was taken from my account without giving me the chance to review or confirm what I was paying for. This made me feel like the platform decided on my behalf, which was very frustrating. When I reached out, I was told that this happened because I had other tabs of the site open. However, this behavior is not something I’ve encountered on other platforms, and it seems like a major flaw in the system. As a student from Russia living in the U.S. without financial support from my family, this unexpected charge was a significant blow to my budget—$270 is what I would normally live on for an entire month. I only wanted to participate in one affordable screenwriting competition, but this experience left me feeling disappointed and financially stressed. I hope the platform can address this issue to avoid similar situations for others in the future.

Terrible experience with some of the festivals we submitted to, whereby we had no communication let alone response once paid up. Need to be very wary when using Film Freeway.

Why do the media not expose this unashamed scam between film festivals and their host site Filmfreeway . This company should be sent to trial .

I got all the Filmfreeway money I spent on fake festivals back in the form of credit. I changed my 1 star to 3. Below my initial review: "As a first time short film maker I completely trusted this site since at least 2 local film festivals told me to go here. In my enthousiasm I payed hundreds of euros to hoax festivals. The worst part is that FILMFREEWAY actually promotes them by sending you emails with reduction codes! Never again!"

A terrible site, overflooded by unserious "festivals" and scam artists. Poor tech, terrible support and absolute waste of ALL parties time.

The platform is very nice and easy to edit your movie. Only this! There are a lot of fake Festivals all over the world; in South America, in East Europe , etc. I have experienced fake festivals: 2 of them, one in La Paz, Bolivia and another one in Belgrade, Serbia. The festival in Bolivia had a fake web page: one page ONLY, with submission form and nothing else. The director of the festival had a family name from Eastern Europe. The festival has 30 categories Best short film, Best actor, Best- you name it... The Film festival in Belgrade had a foreign director of the festival, (won't give names). I am Serbian, so I wrote in Serbian. She answered me in English. I was in Semifinals with my script. The person who won wasn't even in Semifinals! The fee was 20€ with a discount.

There are very few festivals on FilmFreeway that are worth your time and effort; I spent about a $1000 USD in total and nothing good has come of any of it! The festivals are haphazardly put together, a lot of woke festivals where you have to meet every DEI marker and because I rely on good work, not those markers, I don't believe my work is viewed. I receive continuous spam in my email from garbage festivals that are just wanting my money, so much spam that it's too much to even comb through to see if there are legit festivals that would be worth my money. JUST PASS, don't waste your money!