An incomplete record
FilmScorecard can tell you which submissions are missing part of their record. It names the gaps on the Information tab of the detail panel; nothing marks them on the Submissions list.
It is advice and nothing else. Read the next section before you read anything else on this page.
Nothing is ever refused for being incomplete
There is no consequence anywhere. Concretely:
- An incomplete submission saves normally. No warning dialog, no disabled Save button, no field turning red.
- An incomplete submission imports normally. No row is rejected for it and no import reports it.
- An incomplete submission is judged normally. It reaches judges' queues and is scored like any other.
- Judges never see any of this. No sentence, nothing on the dashboard or the scoring screen. It is a coordinator's working note.
The note exists so you can chase the gaps before judging opens, not to stop anything happening.
What a complete record is
Four things:
| Item | Where it is filled in |
|---|---|
| Tagline | Information tab, in the Project card above Synopsis — see The tagline, the statement and the poster. |
| Synopsis | Information tab, under Tagline. |
| Poster | The Poster card at the bottom of the Information tab. |
| A statement | Information tab, in the box under Synopsis — headed Director's statement on a film, Writer's statement on a screenplay. A submission has one statement, so having it is the whole of this item. |
A field of spaces does not count. Whitespace reads as empty.
All four are also fields the submitter can fill in themselves, on their own submission page, while judging is under way — which is the fastest way to clear a run of gaps you did not create. See Letting submitters fix their own details.
Imported submissions are measured on less
A submission that arrived through a FilmFreeway import is measured on the synopsis and the statement only. Its tagline and its poster are not counted against it.
The reason is that FilmFreeway's export carries neither. There is no tagline column and no poster in the file, so a batch of 148 submissions would arrive with 148 notes on day one — which is the point at which nobody reads the note again.
A hand-entered submission is measured on all four.
Two consequences worth knowing before you rely on this:
- An imported submission with a synopsis and a statement reads as complete, even with no tagline and no poster. That is intentional, and it means the note is not a checklist for "ready to program".
- Editing an imported submission does not change which standard it is held to. Add a tagline and a poster to an imported row and it is still an imported row; take the tagline away again and no note appears. A submission that arrived by import is never measured on all four.
Today, importing is the only way a submission reaches a season, so in practice every row on your list is on the shorter standard, and the note appears when a synopsis or a statement is missing. See Importing submissions.
This is not the same as the import's own blank-field report. That one happens during an import, describes gaps in the file — email, category, running time, synopsis — and is shown once, in the preview grid and on the batch. This one describes the record as it stands today, and is shown on the submission itself, for as long as the gap is there.
Where you see it
Nowhere on the list. There is no dot, no filter, no column and no count in the footer; the list does not say which rows are short.
On the Information tab: the sentence
Open the submission and a quiet grey note sits at the top of the Information tab, above the first card, naming exactly what is absent:
This submission is missing a tagline, a poster and a statement.
It lists only items this submission is actually measured on, always in the same order — tagline, synopsis, poster, statement — and it disappears when the record is complete rather than turning green. It is deliberately not red and not an error: it is a note about the record, not a problem with the form.
What it does not tell you
- Whether anything else is missing. Credits, runtime, language, country, the screener link, and every staff-only field an import fills — none of them are counted, however much you may want them.
- Whether the film is ready to judge. A submission with no screener link reads as complete if it has a synopsis and a statement. That is a different problem with a different fix — see Opening a submission.
- Who left the gap, or when. Nothing in the note is attributed. That question is answered one tab over, on the panel's Audit tab: every edit to the record, by a coordinator or by the submitter, with the fields it changed and what each held before — so a synopsis that was cleared can be traced to the edit that cleared it, and the grey line under this note — "Edited by the submitter on 10 Sep 2026." — has a See what changed button that takes you straight there. A gap that has been there since the import shows as the import's own entry and no edit to that field after it: nothing was ever saved into it, so there is nothing more to list.