Anyone use www.withoutabox.com?

[crookedfeatures]

what do you guys think of it?

How do the festivals you apply to through their webpage actually see the film to judge it? Do you upload a screener to withoutabox or something?

I think I've missed the point of it because if you have to send the festivals a DVD seperately then to me it seems a completely worthless "service".

[TJ_the_director]

good question.

however, a small festival in this area filled out their program by checking with withoutabox for films related to the genre of the festival. that would be reason enough to use it, wouldn't it?

[miker]

I've set up an account and had a poke around. It looks like good use of a relational database.

It looks like a good way to spend money on submission fees. I love the way festivals for indies screw the filmmaker with an administration fee and sell tickets to the public.

It pulled up a list of 36 fests for the UK ... not bad. That means filling in one form and submitting to the likes of Chichester and Raindance automatically. I guess. Does anyone trust automated systems?

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ February 13, 2005 07:21 AM: Message edited by: miker ]</font>