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SLOW OR NO RECENT CUSTOMER SUPPORT, AND I SUBMITTED MY AMERICAN FILM TO A EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL WITH CURRENT WEBSITE TECH ISSUES. NOT GOOD IS A NICE WAY OF PUTTING IT.🥴🥺

The best experience I had from using Filmfreeway was the day I deleted my account. If you are an independent filmmaker who is just looking for exposure, go any other route than these 'film' festivals. Unless you are already a part of that ecosystem, these festivals only want your money.

its maybe good, just register with your alternative email which you don't use, or just create a new email for submissions and avoid spams emails.

Started out a great site and alternative to WithoutAbox. However the site seems to have turned into a list of spam festivals that are virtual and all they appear to do is collect your money. People need to do more research on their own and submit directly to festivals if they can. Film Freeway can crack down on the useless virtual festivals if they want but they choose not to.

Film Freeway staff couldn't be nicer. The film festivals that are not the few big league names like Outfest, Sundance, Slamdance, and Tribeca on there are all seemingly Z-list festivals either owned by the same handfuls of groups of people, or they're all friends with each other. We were being bombarded with spam daily by the festivals. When we complained to the different festivals to remove us and stop the spam, we never won a film festival again after we were winning lots of lesser known festival awards. FilmFreeway doesn't put a stop to the data compromises. They are making your personal e-mail address available to all festivals and won't make it private. You could use a burner e-mail but every day you will be pounded for expensive entries by nobody film festivals and go crazy. FilmFreeway is worth it for major festivals you see stars premiering films at and not worth it for everyone else. Beware. Your e-mail address will be all over mailing lists. Complain and get blacklisted. Every indie filmmaker we ask about their FilmFreeway experiences backs this up. You won't have a career buying 90 fake film awards. We see actors with over 100 fake Z-list film "wins" whose careers you will never heard of but you're an "award winning director" or "award winning actor" now. Spend your money wisely on better headshots or any investment in your career. We met a second person who said her account was blackmailed after she complained and had a winning streak. Spend your money on a filmmaking class at a university or anything but this. If you want to throw money down the drain, at least take it to Vegas where your odds of winning are higher than us ever winning an award again because we've been blacklisted. We at least won some Z-list awards. Some people we met never complained about the spam and won 1 award at most. Avoid. Save your money. As for Slamdance or any A-list festivals, you won't have a shot at those anyway unless your bio reads that you majored in Feminist Film Studies at Harvard and wrote your thesis in nuns during the bubonic plague protesting the prices of supermarket food, or your movie stars a man who once played Batman seeking an "I'm a real actor's actor" notice. There are better ways to make it into the studio system than FilmFreeway and you'll have your money in the bank.

they don't support the writer. if a festival doesn't hold up to its side of the deal there should be refunds. there should always be refunds before script is read. honestly if you're entering a film festival and they keep the judges names private it's BS. i've won over 40 times on filmfreeway and literally nothing happens except i've spent a ton of money for nothing. also most of their festivals charge you for awards. my suggestion: stick to the big festivals. save your money to make movie instead of betting these smaller festivals will help.

COSA MI PIACE: La piattaforma è molto utile perché ci sono quasi tutti i festival nazionali e internazionali. Una volta creata la scheda del corto o del film bastano pochi passaggi per iscriversi. COSA NON MI PIACE: - Nei filtri di ricerca non c'è la possibilità separare i featival annuali da quelli mensili. - Purtroppo FilmFreeway non seleziona i Festival quindi è pieno zeppo di finti festival fatti a posta per spennare i filmmaker... Altro che festival... BUSINESS! CONSIGLI - Evitate come la peste i festival mensili, sono tutte truffe! - Evitate i festival con costi assurdi, quelli seri hanno diversi sponsor/partner, quindi non hanno bisogno lucrare sui i filmmaker indipendenti.

This is quickly turning into a complete waste of resources and money. 1 out of over 20 “not selected” festivals will explain why your film wasn’t selected. I don’t think many of the films make it to a human. I could understand this for Sundance, etc, but particularly short film festivals and monthly’s. They should be able to communicate why your film didn’t make it. Many don’t even send you a courtesy email, and the ones that do are automatically generated and totally impersonal. For the fees of some these festivals, this is petty and lame and clearly a scam. Good luck!