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This site is indispensable for many video art open calls for festivals and exhibitions. Most festivals require their site for applying to their festival. However, FilmFreeway, very occasionally, inadvertently posts scams. When alerted, they will take them down. IMDb recently wrote this year that they were forced to "de-listed 42 international festivals in the past few years"...."‘Scammers’ are believed to set up fake festivals, upload them to portals such as FilmFreeway and take small submission fees for filmmakers to submit their work. But the ‘scammers’ allegedly never watch the films and there is no proof the festivals even exist." I was recently accepted to a film festival, ECRÃ advertised as live/in person, but they showed all video artwork "online" only (with no excuse...it was well after COVID). Another one this year was the BuenosAires Indie Film Festival - buenosairesindiefilmfestival.com. They don't show the work at all, neither online nor live. They have a website with no named judges or no past winners. They take the money for a supposed prize - all without any sort of public viewing. There is no web presence on Google other than their spotty 2-page website. Film Freeway eventually took this site down, and I was refunded my fee.

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.

Filmfreeway is a great way to find festivals and contests and is a one stop shop for the whole procedure. I have entered many festivals through Filmfreeway leading to major successes with two of my short films and three of my scripts.

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.

Some festivals to which I submitted my film appear to be illegitimate or fraudulent. For instance, Prague Shorts Shot, as listed on FilmFreeway, claims to have been active for two years, but their website is only four months old, and they have never screened any films; instead, they've manipulated images from another film festival and incorporated their logo. I uncovered these original images, presented them to FilmFreeway, and received a credit to my account in lieu of a refund, with the service fee I initially paid retained. This credit is now irrelevant to me, as I do not intend to use FilmFreeway again. Instead of offering advantages over direct festival applications, this platform appears to profit from questionable festivals. I urge you not to support this unethical website. Conduct thorough research, select reputable film festivals, and apply directly to them.

They charge you 60 dollars for a submission to a festival and they don't even provide feedback. Like why am I paying you for? They should at least give you an answer.

To get ahead of FilmFreeway on this, who seem to be waging a war against people who speak up - my name is Cadance Bell, an author & filmmaker from Australia who made the grave mistake of using the service in 2020. Since that time I have received many hundreds of spam emails for film festivals - most of which are scams or a notch above. I never requested to be signed up to any email lists and I never imagined that a company would divulge my sensitive & private contact details in this way. If you are a professional in the industry and want your identity and communications protected; avoid FilmFreeway.