For festival organizers and their judging panels

Run your festival's submissions and judging in one place.

Bring in your entries, assign them to judges, watch the scoring land, and approve your selections. Your judges get a workspace built for the actual work.

Import entries by CSVBlind independent scoringMany festivals, many seasons
riverside.filmscorecard.com/2026/review-queue
Riverside Shorts Festival2026 Season
12 need attention
Review Queue

132 submissions in judging

Scored331/396
Approved88/132
Judges active14/16
SubmissionJudges inStatus
The Long Way Home3 of 3Ready
Salt and Static2 of 3Judging
Nine Minutes to Anywhere1 of 3Overdue
Tidewater3 of 3Approved
How it works

From a list of entries to a decided season.

01

Bring your submissions in

Import a CSV export from whichever platform takes your entries. FilmScorecard matches the columns, flags duplicates, and shows a full preview before anything saves.

riverside-aug-2026.csvPreview
The Long Way HomeNew
Salt and StaticNew
Nine Minutes to AnywhereDuplicate
38 new4 duplicates2 need attention
Nothing is saved until you confirm the batch.
02

Assign films to judges

Spread each category across your panel, three judges per film, and see who is loaded up and who has room. Reassign in a click when a judge goes quiet.

Panel load396 assignments
M. Okonkwo24/26
R. Delacroix15/26
J. Hartley4/26
Judges declare categories and genres they want, and FilmScorecard honors it when assigning.
03

Review, then decide

Your coordinator reads every scorecard, returns anything thin, and approves the rest. Ranked results give you the shortlist your programming decisions come from.

Short Film, DramaRanked
01Tidewater9.1
02The Long Way Home8.6
03Salt and Static8.2
Returned to judge2 cards
Nothing reaches a submitter without coordinator approval.
The platform

Everything a judging season actually needs

One place for entries, panels, criteria, progress, and results. Run one festival or a dozen, season after season, without rebuilding your process each year.

For judges

Build a judging career, not a pile of spreadsheets.

One profile, one queue, every festival you work with. Say which categories and genres you want, take paid assignments from festivals that need your eye, and keep a record of the seasons you have judged.

Get hired

Judge for more than one festival

Your profile is visible to every festival on FilmScorecard. Organizers looking for a documentary judge or a horror panelist can find you and invite you.

Get paid

Paid assignments, tracked

Festivals set what an assignment pays. You see the rate before you accept, and what you have earned across the season in one place.

Your terms

Set your preferences

Choose the categories and genres you want, cap how many films you take per round, and pause when your schedule fills up.

The work

Watch, score, move on

Screener, criteria, and notes on one screen. Drafts save as you type, and you can pick a film back up on your phone between screenings.

Blind scoringNo spreadsheets, no email threadsYour judging history stays yours
Human review guarantee

Every score and every word of feedback is written by a human judge. No AI judging, ever.

Judges work blind. They cannot see each other's scores or comments while they write, so three opinions stay three opinions.

A judging coordinator reads and approves every scorecard before it reaches a submitter, and can return any scorecard to its judge.

Optional

Share the feedback with your submitters

Once your coordinator approves a scorecard, you can release it to the filmmaker as a formatted summary: scores, the breakdown, and every judge comment. Give it away, or charge for it and keep the revenue at prices you set.

This is a setting, not the point of the platform. Turn it off and FilmScorecard is simply how your season gets judged.

Scorecard releaseEnabled
At claimWhile judging is still open$25.00
LaterAfter results are released$30.00
Host netEvery sale, minus a small percentage
You set the prices, and you can release for free.
Get started

Set up your festival in five minutes

Create your season, import your entries, invite your panel. Judges join with a profile and start taking assignments.