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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.

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.

We will be happy to give the highest rating to this company. The high level of service and professionalism make FilmFreeway one of the most leading and strongest companies in the world in the film industry helping filmmakers to find high quality film festivals and film festivals to find good works. We thank them from the bottom of our hearts and wish them only good luck and success in this hard business.

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!

This is a great platform for filmmakers very helpful and kind customer service they really try to help the film community worldwide the right place for a creative mind

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.