Reel Call - Film Festival Submissions and Programming Platform with Protected Screeners

Dashboard, submissions pipeline with board and table views, submission detail with 6 tabs, screener assignment with an auto-assign preview, and the shortlist and selection board. Each of the 34 sample submissions opens its own detail page.

2 completed views in round one and 3 once shortlisted (client policy). Auto-assign matches category, then language, then the lowest runtime load, and always skips a screener who declared a conflict.

Direction 30%, story and structure 25%, craft 20%, originality 15% and fit with the festival 10%, with the average and spread per criterion on every submission's Reviews tab.

34 submissions from 26 countries across 5 categories, 14 screening committee members, 7 staff users and 5 shortlist vote rounds, inside edition-wide totals of 5,912 submissions.

Screeners That Leak

Private links and shared passwords let a film travel beyond the committee. No player can fully stop screen recording, so screeners need to be streamed only, with DRM and a per-viewer watermark that traces a leaked copy back to the account that played it.

Coverage and Fair Workloads

With about 60 paid and volunteer preselectors covering different categories and languages, some films were watched by no one and some screeners carried far more runtime than others, with nobody able to see either until it was too late.

Conflicts and Confidential Data

A preselector may have worked on a film or know its makers, so conflicts must block scoring and voting. Diversity answers are optional, kept apart from the entry and never shown during selection, and personal data falls under Bosnia and Herzegovina's 2025 data protection law and, for EU entrants, possibly the GDPR.

Eligibility, Fees and Premieres

Each category has its own runtime range and premiere rule, fees step up from early to regular to late deadlines in EUR with the BAM equivalent, and filmmakers from low and lower-middle income countries on the World Bank list get the fee waived automatically.