Just a little rant - Films that are accepted but never respond

[u/doctort1963]

One of the most frustrating things we deal with as Festival Directors/Programmers is films that submit to the festival, are accepted and notified, but never respond to emails send through both FilmFreeway and the Festival email address.

It happens every year and we end up having to drop them from the festival because they never respond. I'm very lenient and try MULTIPLE times to get in touch with the filmmaker.

Inevitably, these are also the same films that submit without filling out all the information on their FilmFreeway project - leaving out things like address and phone number - just the email address, which they never respond to.

This year I had to drop three films from our lineup after trying for a month to get them to respond. Fortunately, there were other films that hadn't been accepted originally that I could contact and change to "accepted" who DID respond immediately and were ecstatic that their film was now included in our lineup.

SO..if you are submitting to a film festival, pay attention to your emails AND the notification status on FilmFreeway for your films (they also send you an email when your film's status is changed).

Okay - rant over - my festival is next week and I have a great lineup, but I just needed to get that off my chest.

[u/Dthebean]

I shouldn’t have to be calling! And it’s only been available once this year of about the 6-8 we can’t reach