June Highlights: our top 5 film festivals

June - the film festival season is coming to an end, while summer and, hopefully, many open-air screenings are around the corner. We are festively starting June with the second part of IFFR's 50th edition. In the meantime and afterward, we travel (digitally, of course!) to England for Sheffield DocFest, to Germany for Berlinale, and [...]

Shiftpicker: A huge time saver for your volunteer coordinator

A big support and important part of your festival: volunteers. No film festival can do without, right? Fiona helps your volunteer coordinator to easily manage your team of volunteers. By default, you can keep track of your volunteers’ personal data, preferences in volunteering, their history within your festival, and your internal remarks on their work. [...]

Top 3 films at TIFF 2021

2021 is kicked off by TIFF, Tromsø International Film Festival. Due to the current circumstances, we are unfortunately not able to travel to this northernmost region of Norway, but it would have been magical to attend the festival. Think about it: the day the festival starts, on January 18, the sun has only been rising [...]

Happy holidays: Fiona’s film tips and 2021 festival calender

2020 – the year that the digitization of film festivals really took off; That your festival virtually connected professional guests from all over the world; And that the program of your film festival could be watched from home. Now, 2021 is just around the corner, and we are curious to see what it has in [...]

Our 3 favorite films at IDFA 2020

The International Documentary Festival Amsterdam already started last Wednesday, but you can enjoy at least ten more days of their festival program. With their hybrid form, there is a lot to enjoy both on-site and online. Currently, in the Netherlands, there are only 30 people allowed in a screening room. With IDFA Extended, selected films [...]

MyFestival integration: how IDFA provides a seamless user experience

Most festivals have a “MyFestival” environment on their website: a place where visitors and guests can log into their account and buy tickets or festival badges. Sometimes, there is a different environment for guests to fill out entry forms. With Fiona, we give you the possibility to integrate your MyFestival environment with our industry platform [...]

Must-sees at DOK Leipzig 2020

Film festival season is here: this week is all about DOK Leipzig, the German documentary and animated film festival – running from October 26th to November 1st. This 63rd edition of DOK Leipzig will take place partly in cinemas throughout Leipzig and partly online - “Watch DOK wherever you want”. So, even if you’re not [...]

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