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Sad to say that I was naïve enough to believe this was a legit website... the obvious bots giving fake feedback was enough to fool me. I can't get my money back but I can stop you wasting yours. Here's what will happen if you submit: Nobody will read your work, they'll just reject it or give you a meaningless title like 'Selected' or 'Quarter Finalist' which means precisely nothing. They advertise services like script reading which never arrive.... most don't even have real contact details or websites you can go to. I dread to think how many people have fallen victim to this. Will be reporting to the cyber fraud division of the police, although I doubt they'll do anything... don't make the same mistake I did!

I am a documentarian and use FilmFreeway. I find it easy to use and to keep track of important festivals. I have been selected for 3 festivals on here this year with my 2nd feature.

Ho partecipato ad Opi soulplace film festival e sono rimasto veramente soddisfatto dell'organizzazione filmfreeway che posso assolutamente consigliare e che mi ha garantito un'ospitalità eccellente!

Where to start?! I receive dozens of spam emails daily to both my company and personal accounts. I only registered these addresses through FilmFreeway, so I know they have not been found elsewhere. I also do not list the email address publicly on my profile. Which means they can only be getting my details directly from FilmFreeway - but they deny this, and claim I must have the address posted elsewhere. There's zero vetting, and zero barrier to entry, which means that there's endless fake or scam festivals that are solely there to take your money and run - and because FF takes a cut, they do nothing to stop this. There is no way to tell if a festival actually shows a film in a cinema environment - even those that post a cinema as the location, there's never images to back it up. FF also takes payment for sponsored listings, which is fine because they have to make money, but the whole front page is littered with ads which means you can easily miss out on actual upcoming deadlines because they are hidden by paid listings. Their additional service fee added to every transaction is also ridiculous - again, especially since they take a cut from the festival too. This place needs a complete overhaul or just a new competitor to swoop in.

As others have said. After successfully using Filmfreeway, I now receive an un-ending quantity of spam from film festivals I've never heard of. Multiples per day. After posting this review, Film Freeway deactivated my account and threatened to sue me.

The awards show company california music awards is the one i submitted too. THey were very unprofessinal not even looking at my submission until 2 days before the event in san fransisco ca! the website says that you can rate your experince but i wasnt able to due to this colosion

WARNING: I just received an unsolicited email from Japan International Film Festival from Chiasa Sakurai who claims to be the Festival Coordinator for Japan IFF. I tried to look up the people involved with the festival(s discussed below) and they don't seem to have any online presence. I then decided to look up the Registrant Organization for the japanfilmfest domain and found that the site was registered to: Pegah Tarkhooni. Curiously enough Pegah Tarkhooni is also the CEO and Registrant Organization for the Munich New Wave Short Film Festival website as well as the Venice FullShot Film Festival (Full Shot cinemag) website. Curious.. I thought. I actually regretfully paid for a submission of my film to the Munich New Wave Short Film Festival thinking the event was online due to the pandemic but realize now it is a way for Pegah Tarkhooni or anyone else involved to have multiple festivals at once and get quite a lot of revenue from artists submitting to seemingly different festivals in different parts of the world (Tokyo, Munich, Venice and how many more?!) that were actually all created by the same person. So nice of them to invite me to submit my film (a $60 fee for an online event!) to the Japan International Film Festival, no? I wrote to FilmFreeway and requested that they look into both Pegah Tarkhooni and the very suspicious film festivals that are disguising themselves as support and community for creatives but were really just created to empty the wallets of hard working artists. Reprehensible. Pegah Tarkhooni care to comment? I would be happy to get a clear explanation and change my review... Contact the festivals you are interested in directly. I will update my review if I ever hear back from the 'people' associated with the 'festivals' or from FilmFreeway with their action plan.

I've been using film freeway as a platform for years and have never had any issues! It's user friendly, filmmaker friendly, and contains everything you'd need to apply to film festivals in one place!