Use Case

Festival API for Submission Consultants and Agencies

Support client strategy, shortlist building, and recurring submission research with structured festival data that cuts manual lookup time.

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Why submission teams need a faster research workflow

Consultants, agencies, and film programs often repeat the same festival research work for different films. They need a fast way to shortlist active festivals by fit, fee ceiling, geography, and deadline urgency without jumping through dozens of tabs and spreadsheets every week.

What Festival API gives you

Shortlist acceleration
Generate candidate lists for client films using deadline, fee, category, and country filters.
Workflow-friendly output
Plug festival results into internal dashboards, spreadsheets, CRMs, or agent workflows.
Research consistency
Apply the same structured criteria across multiple clients, titles, or cohorts.

What consultants and agency teams can build

  • ✓Client shortlist generators for different film types and budget ranges
  • ✓Weekly deadline reports for active client submissions
  • ✓Internal festival research dashboards for consultants and assistants
  • ✓Educational tools for film schools, labs, and incubators teaching submission strategy

Simple consultant workflow

  1. Define the client's film profile, target regions, and fee ceiling.
  2. Query Festival API for matching active festivals and sort by shortlist logic.
  3. Export or push results into Sheets, Airtable, CRM notes, or internal dashboards.
  4. Repeat the workflow as deadlines change and submission windows open or close.

Sample request

cURL
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ***" \
  "https://festivalapi.com/v1/festivals?category=feature_film&fee_max=75&deadline_after=2026-07-01"

Why not keep using spreadsheets and assistants?

Many consultants will still use spreadsheets, but Festival API makes those workflows much faster and more consistent. It reduces repetitive lookup work, gives teams cleaner inputs, and makes it easier to automate shortlist generation or recurring reports.

Useful supporting assets

Make submission research faster and easier to repeat

Festival API helps submission consultants and film-service teams move from manual festival hunting to repeatable, tool-friendly research workflows.

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