Your Festival, Safe & Snug

Your Festival,
Safe and Snug.

 
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WORK SMARTER

Why put all your eggs
in one basket?

FestNest is the first truly customizable film review and selection platform that has been engineered from the ground up by people in your shoes — festival organizers with decades of combined knowledge and expertise.

FestNest is built on a few simple tenants:

  • A single submission source does not give you the widest variety of films to choose from.

  • When all of your information is in front of you, decisions are clear.

  • It is better to work smarter than harder.

FestNest allows your organization to bring all of your data into a single system—with a single click, and gain insights from reviewers in a straight-forward, easy-to-view manner.

 

ABOUT US

Dan Moore (Indy Film Fest) and Jon Gann (founder of DC Shorts, festival consultant) have developed organizational processes and built systems for dozens of festivals worldwide. With FestNest, they bring these proven best practices and strategies together.

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We’re just scratching the surface

Every day, we’re adding more functionality to the system, based on user input and industry trends. Here are some of the ways FestNest can improve your review process today:

    • Each user’s account can link to multiple organizations or events.

    • Import data — with a single click — from 5 major submission sites, and 2 legacy systems.

    • Single unified tracking codes for all imported and manually entered submissions.

    • Storing multiple years’ of data with historical searching. Know your filmmakers over the years and see the trends of what they have submitted.

    • Completely customize review questions based on your event’s needs, or use one of our suggested forms developed from best practices.

    • Create as many review rounds as needed, and monitor progress of each round on a single screen.

    • Organize films into multiple lists.

    • Organize reviewers into multiple groups.

    • Assign films randomly, to sets of reviewers, or to individuals.

    • Glance at how your reviewers are performing to reward top screeners, and let overworked ones take a break.

 

WHAT USERS ARE SAYING

Gone are the days of jumping around to 5 different film submission sites. Finally, a spot where I can keep track of what I need to watch.
— Hell's Half Mile


Organized, simple, and sophisticated. It made me more efficient, and actually helped me to watch more films!
— INDY FILM FEST

MEDIA PLAYER

Download our media player that uniquely plays all formats, and allows for quick playlist creation.

Save
Time

FestNest gets you out from under the crush of films you and your staff (or volunteers) watch and review. Our easy-to-use software simplifies the tasks formerly performed through submission platform back-ends, spreadsheets, and email — and gives you back the most valuable commodity of all — your time.

Save Money


Those moments you steal throughout the day to check on your reviewer’s progress, glance at your film submission stats, and email staff and volunteers adds up quickly. Time is money — so make the most of what you have the least.


Save
Your
Sanity

No more lost scribbles or Post-It notes. No more worrying that your hard drive may fail, leaving you in a lurch. Achieve the satisfaction and occupational zen knowing all of your information is available to you in a single glance — safely stored and backed up in the cloud.

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