FilmFreewayReviews of filmfreeway.com

I paid thousands on Film Freeway applying to festivals. I now receive literally tens of thousands of junk emails from all sorts of festivals I never heard of nor applied to. I can only explain this by Film Freeway selling our data to third parties. Utterly useless website.

This place is ridiculous. Festivals only use filmfreeway to make extra money but they simply don’t even try to watch your film. We’ve created an account for filmfreeway but only one festival really viewed the film out of 50. But we probably spend thousand’s. After having a world sales who places the film without filmfreeway it works and we’ve got 10 festivals in just 2 month. Don’t spend a cent on filmfreeway. Get a worldsales instead. This place is the biggest bulls**t.

I paid this company to enter my film into a film festival, never heard anymore from the festival or FilmFreeway about my entry? Then i noticed they advertised another film festival in France, this time i tried to contact the festival direct, trouble is none of my many emails got answered, i could not find the festival anywhere, it was as though it did not exist? This was my first time at entering any of my work into a festival, i was a rookie! Luckily i spoke to a friend who had worked as a pro camera man on loads of major block busters, under many very famous directors all over the world, he told me to get my money back ASAP, this company is renowned for taking money to enter film festivals, then you hear nothing! All i can say is that i have been bombarded daily from Film Freeway with offers of entering new film festivals, and strangely all of the festivals have very short deadlines to enter your film? Perhaps the unwary may pay and enter one of these so called back yard wooden shed festivals, or one of the spectre translucent festivals that cannot be found anywhere on the net or in the industry, or in any film guide literature - be very wary, contact the film festival direct, if they don't answer then they are not worth contacting! However i have contacted PayPal who are trying to get my hard worked for money back from Film Freeway! BE WARNED!

FilmFreeway is basically a junk mail machine that shares your email address with hundreds of fake and pointless "online festivals" who again share it with others, and if you should ever try to submit a film to any of them, don't expect to hear back. If you've put blood, sweat and money into making a film, don't just lump it into an aggregate website; carefully select the festivals you want to submit it to and go to them directly. If they have a FilmFreeway link on their site, stay well clear.

WARNING! For the indie filmmakers, especially those that make shorts on a micro budget. After a few submissions you will (or you won't!) see a filmfreeway sudden "SERVICE Fee" to "help us run our platform, build new features and offer best customer service". The submissions are already so high, why sudden additional service fees have to come out of the struggling filmmakers pocket? I emailed them asking why there is no disclosure, no heads up about the sudden fees, why no transparency - they emailed back with even more hard sell - suggesting to get a Gold membership "... . "We have recently introduced a nominal service fee on paid submissions to help us cover the costs of operating our platform. Also, there are no service fees for Gold members, should you become interested in trying this service in the future. " Which means - you, filmmaker not happy with sudden additional Service fee, why not buy a membership?! I feel cheated. So many articles online state that "filmfreeway is always FREE to filmmakers". Dishonest. Disappointing. Not trustworthy.

Spent $700 with these bums at FilmFreeway. Out of 12 film festivals I applied to, I only heard back from 4. You would think the 8 other film festivals would have been gracious to at least say they were passing, right? They took our $50 bucks and laughed their way to the bank. AVOID applying to film festivals. If your film is any good, just email the festival director and send them the film with NO APPLICATION FEE.

Complete crap company, they have a list of requirements to make you’re festival public I did everything on the list and they still denied me. Not sure the policy or politics behind this company but after reading the reviews glad they didn’t.

This company is scam. We had the festival for three years in their archive, without a reason, they closed the account, took the users' money. We have to stop the competition because the works were lost. We made the complaint and everything is documented and the users can to witness it. Not recommended.