Asset Gathering
You need many different assets from creators in order to run your festival. A few examples include: Video files for both online and in-person screenings Logos and posters for the print program Trailers for online marketing and social media These assets are all over the place. Some of them are in FilmFreeway (but not in the right format or dimensions...
A Dynamic Online Presence
SparqFest gives you four different portals: The public festival site The Staff Portal The Creator Portal The Jury Portal You can make the public web site your singular online presence, or you can simply link to it from your public web site for critical SparqFest functionality. What's on the Public Site? The public web site is designed both as an aud...
In-Person Programming
Because of when we launched SparqFest as a solution (mid-2020), many people think of us as a solution for online festivals. We initially built the software, however, to run a purely (at that time) in-person festival: Minnesota WebFest. The software had three initial areas of focus: Get all the assets we need from filmmakers Help the jurors do their ...
Online Programming
Your SparqFest subscription includes support for online streaming of your Official Selections as well as support for a number of different live streaming architectures. Online Screenings When we collect screeners from your creators, we stage those assets for use in both in-person and online screenings. For in-person screenings, festival staff (and n...
Integrated Ticketing
SparqFest ticketing allows you to sell tickets online for both in-person and online events. One ticket may grant access to a specific event, or may cover the entire festival. Define Rich Entitlements You can define any number of tickets, each with different entitlements. The tickets you define can control access in any of the following ways: A singl...
Audience Choice Voting
Audience choice voting is always something that the filmmakers love and audience members want. It's also something that most festival directors hate. We hate the tedium of remembering to give out the ballots, collecting the ballots, explaining the rules, the tallying of the ballots, and then the ultimate popularity contest that can often ensue. Spar...
Juried Awards
Our optional Judging Module includes support for both audience choice (described elsewhere) and juried awards. For juried awards, you set up the different awards for your festival, define your voting rules, and invite in jury members to review the nominees and pick a winner. Maximum Secrecy Our entire jury process is designed so that only those who ...
Global Content, Local Experience
Content can come into your festival in any language: living, dead, historic, or constructed. If you have a fan fiction selection in a constructed language like Klingon or Sindarin, we can present that work (assuming Unicode support for the alphabet) just the same as we would a selection in French or in Chinese. When we present a page for a selection...