Filmfreeway Reviews

I paid this company to enter my film

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

Basically fine but their data protection makes it not worth while

At its core it is a good service You can sign up for film festivals and generally the festivals are real The issue lies with the fact you can barely unsubscribe from emails Festivals can obviously email huge lists of emails and it doesn t matter if you unsubscribe from individual festivals because another festival can still email you It is understandable if they re ones you ve entered but they rarely are Most recently I have received a ton of emails on an account for my own festival that hadn t even launched yet I made sure to specifically unsubscribe from their emails but clearly they don t care Support tells me they don t give out my email which I suppose is possible and that FILM freeway acts as a middle man so the third parties never actually see my email but that is not really the point when my inbox is filling up with these useless emails I have specifically been told by support I will no longer receive emails and since then yesterday evening I ve received 4 I m sure by the end of the day I ll have even more Fully recommend using a throw away email with them If this is their approach to your data I would worry about all your other information too

WARNING - Sudden Hidden Fees No Transparency

WARNING For the indie filmmakers especially those that make shorts on a micro budget After a few submissions you will or you won t see a filmfreeway sudden SERVICE Fee to help us run our platform build new features and offer best customer service The submissions are already so high why sudden additional service fees have to come out of the struggling filmmakers pocket I emailed them asking why there is no disclosure no heads up about the sudden fees why no transparency - they emailed back with even more hard sell - suggesting to get a Gold membership We have recently introduced a nominal service fee on paid submissions to help us cover the costs of operating our platform Also there are no service fees for Gold members should you become interested in trying this service in the future Which means - you filmmaker not happy with sudden additional Service fee why not buy a membership I feel cheated So many articles online state that filmfreeway is always FREE to filmmakers Dishonest Disappointing Not trustworthy

Scam company don t use it

This company is scam We had the festival for three years in their archive without a reason they closed the account took the users money We have to stop the competition because the works were lost We made the complaint and everything is documented and the users can to witness it Not recommended

Spent 700 with these bums at

Spent 700 with these bums at FilmFreeway Out of 12 film festivals I applied to I only heard back from 4 You would think the 8 other film festivals would have been gracious to at least say they were passing right They took our 50 bucks and laughed their way to the bank AVOID applying to film festivals If your film is any good just email the festival director and send them the film with NO APPLICATION FEE

Complete crap company

Complete crap company they have a list of requirements to make you re festival public I did everything on the list and they still denied me Not sure the policy or politics behind this company but after reading the reviews glad they didn t

This place is ridiculous

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

Very scam company

Very scam company We have used this platform for 2 years they have used our image to take users money When we registered another festival they asked us for money and we didn t refuse and they closed both accounts creating big problems for the various participants and for our organization We have also sent all the press information on our events supported by the institutions but we have not solved anything We filed a complaint with the Canadian police and reported it to the Embassy these scams cannot be suffered We do not recommend using it if you do not want to lose your money and damage the image

Scam Festivals Junk Emails

Where to start I receive dozens of spam emails daily to both my company and personal accounts I only registered these addresses through FilmFreeway so I know they have not been found elsewhere I also do not list the email address publicly on my profile Which means they can only be getting my details directly from FilmFreeway - but they deny this and claim I must have the address posted elsewhere There s zero vetting and zero barrier to entry which means that there s endless fake or scam festivals that are solely there to take your money and run - and because FF takes a cut they do nothing to stop this There is no way to tell if a festival actually shows a film in a cinema environment - even those that post a cinema as the location there s never images to back it up FF also takes payment for sponsored listings which is fine because they have to make money but the whole front page is littered with ads which means you can easily miss out on actual upcoming deadlines because they are hidden by paid listings Their additional service fee added to every transaction is also ridiculous - again especially since they take a cut from the festival too This place needs a complete overhaul or just a new competitor to swoop in