Your film is done. You took risks, had sleepless nights for months and your bank account is negative. Now you want it to be seen.
You open a submission platform. You scroll through hundreds of festivals and don't know any of them. No information about the people behind is shown. But submitting is easy, so you pay and click. Again and again, spread and pray.
Weeks go by without any answer. You still have hope, scrolling on Reddit for any signs. After months, the important festivals rejected you. Is that it? Then it screened at a festival – a fake one. The international premiere, wasted. And then it's shown nowhere.
Making films is hard enough.
Submission platforms list every festival and tell you little about them. Screentour shows you who's behind each one — who curates, what they've selected, whether your film fits — so you can decide where your film actually belongs.
Screentour is built with people who love film.
Free for indie filmmakers – for now and ever.
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Credits
Festival strategy needs more than one lens: academic research, a newcomer's reality, and a practitioner's ear. Every recommendation traces back to evidence and real careers, not hype.
Hochschule für bildende Künste, Film department
Since 1965, HFBK Hamburg has trained auteurs through the films of Helke Sander, Wim Wenders, Angela Schanelec and others. Every cohort steps into the festival circuit for the first time on their watch. They bring Screentour the newcomer's reality: what filmmakers actually need before that first submission.
Associate Professor in Film Studies, NTNU
Skadi co-founded the Film Festival Research Network and led the Film Circulation project, which tracked around 2,500 films through the international circuit. They bring Screentour the empirical foundation: how films actually travel, which festivals connect to which, and what circulation patterns the data reveal.
Filmmaker & host of Indiefilmtalk
Yugen is a filmmaker and has hosted Indiefilmtalk since 2017, with more than 200 conversations with programmers, sales agents, producers and directors. He brings Screentour the practitioner's ear: which festivals genuinely move films and careers forward, and where filmmakers build real connections and visibility.
Pricing
For indie filmmakers distributing by themselves.
Great for small teams with flexible pricing.
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