Festivals

Connect your festival staff, filmmakers, and the audience and you will deliver the ideal festival experience.

Makes sense, but it’s easier said than done. To tighten the bonds between your festival and all of its participants, you need to move beyond the static, one-sided festival experience. You need a single place for exchanging updates, ideas and feedback. You need great technology that empowers your community to build an exceptional experience for themselves. And of course, you need to do all of this with your current festival budget and resources.

A Different Kind of Festival Experience

Improve the strength of your festival community year-round with a rich, personalized program guide for your attendees, and powerful tools for audience members, filmmakers and festival staff to communicate like never before.

Gauge audience interest in specific films, predict ticket sales, and evaluate programming performance and attendee satisfaction through film ratings, reviews and user activity on the community site.

Increase box office receipts, screening attendance, and future growth through a powerful marketing platform that tunes you in to the pulse of your audience.

Become a B-Side Festival Community

B-Side has created the new gold standard for online film festival communities. With over 150 festivals using our technology today and 250 on tap for 2008, B-Side is showing audiences across the continent a new way to participate in the festival experience.

As a free service for all member festivals, B-Side hosts the festival program guide portion of your web site, providing expert technology that delivers unprecedented communication, collaboration and intelligence for all of your festival participants.

We customize the B-Side Festival Community for you to match the look and feel of your own site, so festival-goers never feel like they’ve left your online festival experience.

B-Side makes it simple to import and format your film content and calendar information so that the entire service can be up and running in less than one week. In fact, you can export data directly from Withoutabox and into your B-Side festival community.

What does a B-Side festival community look like?

Audience members receive their own personal online program guide, including:

• Festival-wide and personal screening schedules
• Audience ratings and reviews of films
• Filmmaker blogs providing direct interaction with participating filmmakers

Filmmakers connect to their audiences with:

• Opportunities to “build buzz” for screenings of films, based on interest and reviews from audiences
• Easy-to-use blogging and news tools that foster more personal and local outreach
• Instant, direct feedback from attendees at each of their screenings

Festivals gain insight into and share more with their community through:

• Continuous visibility of audience interest for scheduled films
• A festival blog as a fast, easy way to communicate updates and changing promotions
• Audience feedback and analysis for planning future program
• Ongoing community services throughout the year