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# Fiona Festival

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## Posts
- [Film Festival Management Software: Features, Benefits & FAQs](https://www.fiona-festival.com/blog/film-festival-management-software): Discover what film festival management software is, which features to look for and what questions to ask yourself before deciding on a new provider.
- [Sustainable guest management](https://www.fiona-festival.com/blog/sustainable-guest-management): If you run a film festival, you’re likely aware that sustainable guest management is complex, balancing budget, festival integrity, and environmental concerns. Here’s how some festival clients manage this.
- [Guest management at film festivals: avoid common pitfalls](https://www.fiona-festival.com/blog/guest-management-at-film-festivals): Guest management differs across film festivals. You might keep it simple or have an elaborate plan. No matter the size or scope, challenges are inevitable. We’ve listed some common pitfalls.
- [Finding Alternative Film Festival Funding: This is how festivals across Europe do it](https://www.fiona-festival.com/blog/alternative-film-festival-funding): Funding is rarely straightforward due to political shifts, reduced subsidies, and rising costs, which threaten financial security. Consequently, more festivals are using diverse alternative funding sources to sustain their events.
- [Evolving Festival Dynamics: The Quest For Relevance](https://www.fiona-festival.com/blog/the-quest-for-film-festival-relevance): Festivals expand in scope, embracing more and more new activities. This growth, often due to their search for relevance, is promising but will demand more of your festival team. Read about some examples and how you can manage the increased complexity.
- [YOU are creative, AI is not](https://www.fiona-festival.com/blog/ai-in-film): The AI buzz was all over Cannes, where filmmakers felt unease (or fear), and specialists tried hard to calm things down. Are we right to be afraid? Read about the emerging filmmakers' take on the role of AI in film and storytelling.
- [Is film festival programming becoming a precarious job?](https://www.fiona-festival.com/blog/film-festival-programming-job): Film programming is one of the most essential parts of organising your film festival. Reasons enough to care about these heroes who do your programming. Read our tips on supporting your programming staff
- [Fiona Festival integrates with Shift72](https://www.fiona-festival.com/blog/fiona-festival-integrates-with-shift72): Film festivals are trying to keep up with digital transformation and the need for user-friendly film festival software is booming. We're thrilled to announce our collaboration with Shift72, a frontrunner in video on demand.
- [Film festival ticketing software: features you need to look for](https://www.fiona-festival.com/blog/film-festival-ticketing-software): How is a film festival different from, for instance, a music festival, and what should you look for in festival ticketing software to ensure smooth operations? To help you, we’ve made a checklist of the most important questions.
- [Unlocking the Power of Film Festival Organizing Software](https://www.fiona-festival.com/blog/film-festival-organizing-software): Explore festival management software features and functionalities. When integrated with other digital systems, these software solutions create a smooth and efficient experience for users and audiences.
- [Starting a film festival: the ultimate guide](https://www.fiona-festival.com/blog/starting-a-film-festival): Starting a film festival can be a challenging but rewarding experience. By following these tips, you can create a successful event that showcases the best of (independent) filmmaking and brings together a community of film enthusiasts.
- [Hallelujah for hybridity? Two and a half years on…](https://www.fiona-festival.com/blog/film-festival-hybridity): No, this is not another opinion piece on The Future of Film Festivals. Instead, we want to look at how festivals currently connect and collaborate with filmmakers and audiences. Is hybridity still the way to go?
- [Shiftpicker: A huge time saver for your volunteer coordinator](https://www.fiona-festival.com/blog/film-festival-volunteer-management): 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A big support and important part of your festival: volunteers. No film festival can do without, right? Fiona helps you simplify your film festival volunteer management. 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. With the Shiftpicker module, you can extend this functionality. The module helps you ease up the planning of the volunteer shifts - for yourself as well as for your helpers - without losing control.Supposing you are a volunteer manager - you will probably recognize this scenario:
- [MyFestival integration: how IDFA provides a seamless user experience](https://www.fiona-festival.com/blog/myfestival-integration): 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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 of a MyFestival integration with our industry platform to give your guests a seamless user experience.This way, they only need one login to buy tickets and fill out forms. You can even make important information (such as appointments and invoices) easily accessible to them. Finally, you can allow certain logged-in users to view restricted information throughout your website.Many festivals are already using our MyFestival integration. Especially the way IDFA uses the module makes a good example. The International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2020 takes place from 18 November to 6 December - mostly online and, hopefully, partly in cinemas. This article will explain what the MyFestival integration entails, how IDFA applies the module, and what you can learn from them.The goal of connecting your MyFestival environment to Fiona and our industry platform is to help you provide a smooth user experience, whether your festival takes place online or in the cinemas. When you log in to your account on the IDFA website, you will immediately notice how well Fiona integrates with the MyIDFA industry platform. Or actually, you probably won’t notice at all (and that is precisely the point). When you are a guest at the festival, you will find all your open entries, invoices, new forms to fill out, and your appointments in your MyIDFA. When you are a volunteer at the festival, you will find all details on your shifts here.Based on the user’s account, the website pulls all this information from Fiona: which forms are open, which entries belong to a user, their invoices, appointments, and shifts. Once a user opens a form or an invoice, they will be redirected to Fiona’s industry platform without the need to log in again. The styling of the industry platform matches the festival’s website for an even more seamless feel.Fiona comes with a stand-alone industry platform for your festival. Although this platform does not integrate with your website, we make sure the styling matches your website.In MyIDFA, you have everything in one place. Guests can find all their scheduled appointments, including Q&As, screenings, and other activities.This year, IDFA moved its entire professional program online, and now, all market meetings will take place virtually. Using the MyFestival integration made it possible for its guests to log in to their account and participate in their online appointments - right from the website of IDFA.Sometimes films are only available for certain groups of viewers, like Docs for Sale guests, jury members, or schoolteachers. In Fiona, you form those groups and grant them the user rights to watch films and videos. All accounts connect to the MyIDFA platform. If someone logs into their MyIDFA account, the website automatically checks with Fiona which user rights the person owns. If this person has the required rights, they can watch films or view film pages. In this case, your admin sets the user rights in Fiona. The website checks and verifies the rules for each logged-in user via Fiona.Fiona doesn’t come with a ticketing module, yet the MyFestival integration can support ticketing and badging. At IDFA, MyIDFA is the link between Fiona and the ticketing system: all accredited guests and all volunteers are published from Fiona to the ticketing system to ensure they all receive the right badge. Once you are an accredited guest at IDFA, you will be able to purchase tickets through your MyIDFA account.At IDFA, MyIDFA is the link between Fiona and the ticketing system: all accredited guests and all volunteers are published from Fiona to the ticketing system to ensure they all receive the right badge. Once you are an accredited guest at IDFA, the website and the ticketing system will identify you as such. So you only have to log in to your MyIDFA account to get your festival tickets.Last but not least, once you log in as a guest, you can view all details of the festival’s guest list. The IDFA website retrieves all information on the guestlist from Fiona.Our MyFestival integration connects all essentials systems for you to smoothen the complete festival experience for your guests. A brief recap of all its functionalities:
- [Remain a business meeting place: facilitate online appointments for your film market](https://www.fiona-festival.com/blog/facilitate-your-film-market): 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Most festivals are currently forced to adopt a hybrid form. Besides their regular and online program, they have turned the complete professional (industry and film market) program into a virtual event. After all, a film festival also remains a place where contacts are made, and business bonds forged. But, when your festival is online or hybrid, how do you facilitate meetings between your professional guests?With the film market scheduler module in Fiona, you can already use the meeting planner. Through online forms, you can request your professional guests to enter their availability and to set with which projects or guests they’d like to meet. Based on everybody’s availability and preferences, Fiona calculates who meets who when and where. And the best thing: you can control the algorithm for how to automatically plan these meetings. This is how a reliable meeting program is created, with full control but without doing all the puzzling yourself. The only thing is, in times of social distancing and travel restrictions, it is quite hard or even impossible to meet in real life. So, there has to be an alternative.
- [The show must go on: we help you move your festival online](https://www.fiona-festival.com/blog/move-your-film-festival-online): Lately, COVID-19 has given a lot of festivals a hard time, but one thing is and always was sure: the show must go on. That is why we are very pleased and proud to present our newest features. Read on to explore these features and learn how they will help you move your film festival online. While your festival plans are being revised, other developments in your organization will grab the opportunity to speed up. For example, we are sure your festival has already thought about an online program but maybe haven’t had the opportunity to work it out yet. Due to the coronavirus crisis, it is inescapable to move your film festival online, partly or completely. So, now is the time to take the big step, but how do you do that: 'move your film festival online'? Earlier this year, we discussed how your film festival can remain valuable with an online program. First, you have to remain a meeting place; second, you have to provide a secure platform for your audience to watch your online screenings. That is what we have focused on by building our newest features - together with three major Dutch film festivals (IFFR, IDFA, and NFF), and the German documentary festival DOK Leipzig. The Netherlands Film Festival (NFF) and DOK Leipzig will be the first festivals to put our new functionalities into practice.Let your visitors enjoy your festival program from home, with scheduled online screenings and video-on-demand. You can set up virtual public meeting rooms, so they can meet up with like-minded people.Enjoying your festival screenings from the couch at home. It is now possible with scheduled online screenings in set timeframes. By integrating Fiona and your ticketing provider, they can now purchase tickets on your website not only for regular shows but for online shows as well. If desired, you can add mandatory alternative screening content to films, like trailers, or add pre-recorded events such as talk shows, masterclasses, and Q&As.With video-on-demand shows, you can stay connected with your audience all year round. You can offer selected films that people can watch from anywhere, within a certain timeframe. In Fiona, you can grant access by integrating your ticketing system with Fiona, and from the end of 2020, you will be able to set the availability of films per region.What is a film festival without a place to discuss the film you just watched? Being a meeting place before, during, and after a screening is one of the most characteristic facets of a film festival - that is the reason why we think it is key for your online festival. By adding virtual public meeting rooms to your online shows, you can meet the need of your visitors.When your professional guests are not able to visit your festival, or you want to move your festival entirely online, you can set up online appointments. In Fiona, you can schedule both online and on-site meetings with the automatic meeting scheduler. As a participant of an online appointment, you just go to your MyFestival account to start your virtual meeting. All online appointments for your professional guests are securely and stably hosted by Fiona.One of our partners, the Netherlands Film Festival (NFF), will be the first festival using our corona proof features. They have announced that this year, during their 40th edition, the festival will partly go online. Their NFF Conference for international film professionals will be completely online - you can register for the program and watch the daily sessions live, or watch them later.From September 25th to October 3rd, anyone will be able to watch their films online (via their website: filmfestival.nl) as well as in cinemas in Utrecht. Moreover, they have decided to go big for their anniversary: their film premieres will be shown in almost 100 cinemas throughout the Netherlands.So, we fully support our Fiona users and other film festivals and we hope that with the release of our newest features we can make sure that your show can go on. We shortly recap our online festival features that will help you move your film festival online:
- [Improve your screening copy logistics with FilmFetch and Fiona Festival](https://www.fiona-festival.com/blog/screening-copy-logistics-with-filmfetch): In this digital era, file sharing through the cloud is becoming a standard in all sorts of industries. Thanks to the collaboration of Fiona and FilmFetch, there is now a new, secure method for sharing DCP files between film makers and festivals.
- [Keep it simple: Connect to specialized tools](https://www.fiona-festival.com/blog/film-festival-central-data-hub): A lot of festivals wish to have an ‘all-in-one’ software program. What if your solution is created around one steady core, which is connected to multiple, smaller solutions? All made by specialists, taking care of a specific part of the process.
- [How to pick a tech provider](https://www.fiona-festival.com/blog/tech-provider-for-your-film-festival): When searching for a new tech provider, it is not always easy to determine which company will be the best match for you. We have gathered some tips to consider when selecting your tech providers, to help you make a more educated choice.
- [Three reasons why a custom made database no longer pays off](https://www.fiona-festival.com/blog/custom-film-festival-database): Do you believe your festival can only work with a database created especially for your festival? Something that is customised up to your every wish and needs? Let us convince you otherwise.

## Pages
- [Peter Goldman | Co-founder of Fiona Festival Software](https://www.fiona-festival.com/about-fiona-festival/peter-goldman): Peter Goldman is co-founder of Fiona Festival Software, a specialised platform for film festival management. Within Fiona, Peter works across product strategy, user experience, sales, marketing and client implementation. This gives him a close view of how festivals organise their internal workflows, where operational complexity appears, and how software can support teams before, during and after the festival.
- [Client Success Story: MOOOV](https://www.fiona-festival.com/cases/mooov-film-festival): MOOOV’s many different activities have their own logic and planning methods. Their previous software had worked well for other cultural institutions but fell short in meeting the specific demands of the film festival. They still had to do a lot of work manually, plus they missed a way to plan schematically, with a drag-and-drop system. Nor could they easily create a screening schedule. Since they were the only film festival client for that software developer, development of the current software would be costly and time-consuming. They were advised that seeking an alternative software solution would be a wiser choice.
- [Cases](https://www.fiona-festival.com/cases): “(…) It’s very user-friendly, so the whole team went along, which didn’t happen with the previous system.” – Greet Stevens – Financial & Digital management“It went quicker than expected. Fiona is un altro mondo.” – Simona Gamba“(…) Yes, but if you put it in Fiona, you have much less work after that.” – Marion Klomfaß – Festival Director“(…) It’s very user-friendly, so the whole team went along, which didn’t happen with the previous system.” – Greet Stevens – Financial & Digital management
- [Client Success Story: Nippon Connection](https://www.fiona-festival.com/cases/nippon-connection): While the start-up was very quick, the Nippon Connection team understood it easily, immediately implemented it in their workflow, and liked it!
- [Client Success Story: Locarno Film Festival](https://www.fiona-festival.com/cases/locarno-film-festival): After years of working with tailormade software, building on top of it, and integrating new elements, it became increasingly complex for Locarno to maintain a clean and smoothly running database. This, of course, poses a risk. The last thing you want is to be in the middle of all your preparations and find yourself unable to access essential information or deal with a software malfunction. Given the software’s complexity, they would have needed a dedicated software engineer to keep going. This was reason enough for Locarno to go on the lookout for a new software solution with a dedicated support team, that could help them move forward and grow sustainably. They created a shortlist of software suppliers and compared them (including us) in terms of possibilities, their trust in the service and its continuity, and of course, costs. Ultimately, they chose to undertake this process with us.One of the major challenges in switching software for any film festival is the limited time available for testing. Testing the software is best done during the festival, which is also the worst time because these are the days when you want to avoid any errors. Therefore, the software must be integrated and perfected in the preceding months, in addition to your usual workload. Fortunately, this is a challenge we know how to handle. We began by familiarizing ourselves with their existing system and determining the best way to migrate data. In the first year, we had the Locarno team test only some of the modules. By the second year, the entire team was using Fiona. To facilitate this transition, we provided a daily digital walk-in hour, allowing anyone with questions or needing extra support or clarification to join the meeting during that time.Locarno was changing its software, website and ticketing partner all at the same time. So, besides a software supplier, they needed consultants and partners to help them oversee the whole process of technical changes. As they describe it: “Fiona is at the center of everything, it was the main core that we needed to make work.” To make sure that we could make that core work for Locarno, we were very involved in the technical change. We offered our expertise and knowledge to the Locarno team, of course, and also to their other technical partners. All so that we could customize Fiona to the specific needs of Locarno and deliver on being the solid core of their digital tools.We could continue discussing this collaboration endlessly, but you would likely prefer to hear it directly from the source. So, we asked Locarno about their experience with Fiona Festival software, particularly in comparison to their previous workflow, and this is what they said:
- [Get a free whitepaper](https://www.fiona-festival.com/whitepaper): By implementing these factors, festival organisers can create an engaging and sustainable event that captivates audiences, satisfies stakeholders, and contributes to the growth of the film industry.
- [Sustainability and Inclusion](https://www.fiona-festival.com/sustainability-and-inclusion): At Fiona, we are committed to building a sustainable future for ourselves and our planet. We understand that our business operations have an impact on the environment, and we take this responsibility seriously. We strive to minimize our carbon footprint by implementing sustainable practices throughout our organization. 
- [Get a free demo of festival management software](https://www.fiona-festival.com/demo): Festival programming
- [Fiona Festival](https://www.fiona-festival.com/): Easy to use softwareFiona is smart and intuitive
- [Features](https://www.fiona-festival.com/features): Fiona has many features included, but you can extend it with even more functions. Add one of the following features to further customize Fiona to your needs.
- [Integrations](https://www.fiona-festival.com/film-festival-software-integrations): Some film festival software integrations are built with specific partners, while others use Fiona’s APIs to support the festival’s own workflow. This helps keep films, screenings, venues, guests, professionals, badges and programme information consistent across Fiona and the other tools your festival depends on.Typical workflows:
- [Fiona Festival customer support](https://www.fiona-festival.com/film-festival-software-features/customer-support): When you work with Fiona, you will enjoy high-quality customer support and expertise. We find it important that your team can work as smoothly as possible, so we always act swiftly, adequately, and decisively. While implementing Fiona, we do this by providing training so that you can get to know Fiona. After that, you can rely on our customer support team and our help center.
- [Film festival media and publication](https://www.fiona-festival.com/film-festival-software-features/film-festival-media-and-publication): In Fiona, there are a lot of options to make your film festival media and publication smoother. You can provide films, persons, and shows with a lot of detailed information. We also offer the possibility to add all kinds of content that reveals more about a film or person. You can write and translate texts and add images and videos. Once you have collected the right content, you can make it public. With just a single click of a button, Fiona publishes the selected content to your website, to your Festival App, or to your ticketing provider – or to all three.With our publication API, Fiona enables you to publish anything to all your online channels. Whether you want to publish your full festival program or just one still to a film page on your website – you are in control.
- [Film festival management tools](https://www.fiona-festival.com/film-festival-software-features/management-tools): Working with different departments and a lot of data requires a streamlined workflow and tools to keep things organized. That's why Fiona comes with handy film festival management tools as standard. So that you can monitor and optimize your organization and planning anytime, anywhere.During your festival, you create a lot of data – in the selection process, during production, and with the evaluation of your event. Fiona enables you to create appealing reports of almost everything, like films, shows, guests, volunteers, etc.
- [Productivity boosters](https://www.fiona-festival.com/film-festival-software-features/productivity-boosters): We understand what you, as a festival, need to work as effectively and efficiently as possible. No wonder that in Fiona, you will find productivity boosters that simplify your work. Such as, a smart, intuitive navigation, daily to-do-lists, up to date status lists and bulk actions. As well as creating templates for your mailings and reports and adding custom fields to be able to retrieve all necessary information.In Fiona, you navigate intuitively and smoothly through your database. So that you know that you are working in the right context, when you edit or supplement information. You can dive deeper in related content without losing your initial context, saving clicks and time. By the way, Fiona saves your changes automatically.Fiona is very easy to use, so everyone learns to work with our software quicklyDive deeper in related content without losing your initial context saving clicks and timeCreate and manage your own up-to-date worklists and overviews that fit into your working process. Filter your overviews by progress status to get real-time insight into the work to be done, and share your favorite lists within your team.Create shortcuts to your favorite overviews and worklists on your startpageCreate overviews to list all informationCreate and manage your own up-to-date work lists that fits into your working processFilter your overviews by progress status, to get real-time insight in the work to be doneShare your favorite lists within your teamGet an insight into the state of work by using statuses. In Fiona, you can create your own statuses for films, guests, publication texts etc. Keep track of the work to be done by assigning a status to a card and sections on a card. By means of an overview, you will always be up to date of any progress.Apply statuses to different sections of a cardShow status in overview to keep track of progressDo you need to retrieve or store information that is not covered by Fiona’s default fields? Then you simply add custom fields. Pick a type, enter the values to be chosen, and use your custom fields in mailings, reports, overviews, and forms.Add your own custom fields of various typesUse custom fields in mailings, reports, overviews and formsYou can create endless amounts of templates for mailings and reports. With only some basic knowledge of HTML and CSS and our easy-to-use template editor, you can already create appealing templates yourself. Also, with a master template, you have a consistent layout for all your future mailing and reporting templates.Create your own templates with an easy to use template editorUse HTML and CSS to create appealing reportsApply master templates for a consistent lay-out of all your reportsReach out to film makers, guests and volunteers with personalized or static mailings. Select the recipients: a contact person, to relations with a specific role or to a list of selected contacts.
- [Guest service and CRM](https://www.fiona-festival.com/film-festival-software-features/guest-service-and-crm): While running a film festival, it’s not only about films, but also about the people behind these films. Your contacts, whether individuals or companies, are very valuable to your festival. Therefore, we offer an extensive guest service and contact management feature as standard.
- [Volunteer management](https://www.fiona-festival.com/film-festival-software-features/volunteer-management): Our volunteer management feature helps you to keep your list of volunteers complete and up to date. You are able to simply keep track of anything a single volunteer does or prefers during their job. Whether it is about their diet, or how they do their job at your festival – you always have a clear overview of information about each volunteer.In Fiona, you can manage your volunteers for each festival edition. Fiona enables you either to re-invite your best volunteers from a previous edition or to start from scratch. Also, Fiona allows you to view a volunteer’s complete history within your festival. This way, your volunteer management is always accurate.
- [Film logistics](https://www.fiona-festival.com/film-festival-software-features/film-logistics): With our festival management software, you are able to manage and automate the entire process around film logistics in one place. Whether it’s about retrieving or checking screening copies – managing your film logistics in Fiona is more efficient and easier than ever. Besides, with our extensive film logistics feature, you are now always 100% sure that you are delivering the right file to every venue.Fiona has an indepth integration with FilmFetch. As a result, the entire process of retrieving, uploading, checking and forwarding DCPs and Vimeo players has become automated.
- [Additional modules](https://www.fiona-festival.com/additional-modules): Fiona has many features included, but as we offer customizable film festival software, you can extend our festival management software with even more functions. Add one of the following additional modules to further customize Fiona to your needs.Does your festival organize a film market or a film forum? Then you probably deal with a lot of manually scheduled appointments. With our film market scheduler, we offer an automated planner for one-on-one meetings.
- [All features](https://www.fiona-festival.com/film-festival-software-features): Fiona Festival includes powerful film festival software features to support you throughout the entire process of organizing your festival. Fiona simply enables you to work smarter and more effectively. We help you achieve more with less, with a higher level of control and insight.
- [Film festival programming](https://www.fiona-festival.com/film-festival-software-features/film-festival-programming): Large festivals have to deal with a lot of data when it comes to film festival programming. In Fiona, all this data is stored in one place, and we'll help you create a good workflow so the whole process of submission, selection and production runs smoothly, and your entire team can work streamlined.
- [Contact](https://www.fiona-festival.com/contact): hello fiona-festival.com
- [Blog](https://www.fiona-festival.com/film-festival-management-blogs)
- [About Fiona Festival](https://www.fiona-festival.com/about-fiona-festival): About Fiona Festival's start

## Categories
- [Behind the Scenes of Film Festivals](https://www.fiona-festival.com/blog/topics/behind-the-scenes-of-film-festivals)
- [Film Festival Operations](https://www.fiona-festival.com/blog/topics/film-festival-operations)
- [Film Festival Software Integrations](https://www.fiona-festival.com/blog/topics/film-festival-software-integrations)

Fiona Festival offers Film Festival Management Software that is fully customizable for film festivals all over the world.