# Open calls

> From FilmScorecard Help: https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/open-calls

**Open calls** is the row under **Next submission** in the left navigation of
your judging screens, at `/judge/open-calls`. It is the one screen in FilmScorecard
that looks past the festivals you already judge for: **every festival on the
platform that is hiring judges for a round posts it here**, with the work they
need covered and what each category pays.

The board is a wall of cards. Each one opens a page about that call — what the
round is, which categories need covering, what each of them pays, and what an
application will ask you for.

**You can apply now.** The form behind **Start application** has a guide of its
own — [Applying to an open call](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/applying-to-an-open-call.md) — which also
covers answering a festival that replies with different rates, and withdrawing
an application afterwards.

Your own queue — the film in front of you at a festival that already has you on
its panel — is on [Your judging home](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-judging-home.md). Whether you judge
for pay or as a volunteer, and whether you are listed in the judges directory
at all, are on [Your account](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-account.md).

## Why the board can still be empty

Nothing is wrong with your account. **Festivals can now post a call themselves**
— there is a switch on their own settings screen that lists a season here — but
posting one is optional, so how much is on this board depends entirely on how
many festivals have turned it on. Meeting "No open calls right now" is not a
fault.

**A call that is posted is a real call.** **Start application** opens a real
form and files a real application — see
[Applying to an open call](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/applying-to-an-open-call.md).

If a festival wants you on a panel without going through the board, they invite
you by email — see [Your judging invitation](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-judging-invitation.md).

## Getting to the board

**Open calls** is the second row of your judging navigation, directly under
**Next submission**, on every judging screen. It carries a **plain grey number**
— deliberately not the amber one the Inbox uses:

- The number is **open calls you have not applied to**.
- **No number means none**, rather than a `0`.
- **It is not an alert.** Amber in FilmScorecard means something is waiting on you;
  an open call is a noticeboard, not a message, so it stays quiet.
- **It does not change when a festival replies to you.** A counter waiting on
  your answer shows as a pill on that call's card and page; the navigation row
  stays the plain market count.
- **It moves the moment you do something** — apply, withdraw, open an unread
  inbox item — and on a full reload. Simply moving between screens leaves it as
  it was, and it does not tick over while you sit on one.

Both screens need you **signed in with a finished judge profile**. Signed out,
you go to the log-in screen; with an unfinished profile you are sent to finish
it first — see
[Setting up your judge profile](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/setting-up-your-judge-profile.md). **And if you
have not agreed to the current Judge Code of Conduct**, a one-box confirm page
stands in front of both screens until you do — see
[The two role agreements](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/terms-and-privacy.md#the-judge-code-of-conduct-and-the-festival-host-agreement).
The application form itself is not held back by it: its own Submit carries the
box.

**You do not have to be on anybody's panel to read this board.** It is the whole
platform's calls, not the calls of the festivals you already judge for.

The line at the foot of the sidebar on these screens states the rule these
screens are built on:

> Your rate and your application are visible to the festival you applied to,
> never to other judges.

### The three tabs

Under the heading sits a strip of three, each with a plain count and each with
an address of its own:

| Tab | What it holds |
| --- | --- |
| **Open calls** | Calls you have **not** applied to. The marketplace. |
| **Applied** | Calls you **have** applied to, whatever the festival has done since. |
| **Past** | Applications on calls that closed, once a month has gone by with nothing further happening on them. The record. |

**Every tab shows its count on every tab**, so you never have to click one to
find out whether it is worth clicking. **No count is ever amber** — the pill on
the card is what marks a call that is waiting on you.

## Which calls are on the board

**Every open call on FilmScorecard, at every festival, whoever runs it.** This is the
one screen that deliberately crosses between organizations — a marketplace
nobody can see across is not a marketplace.

A call is **open** when the festival's opening date has passed (or there is no
opening date) and its closing date is still in the future (or there is no closing
date at all).

| The call | Where it is |
| --- | --- |
| Open, no application from you | **Open calls.** |
| Open, you applied | **Applied.** |
| Closed, and something moved on your application within the last month | **Applied**, so it stays somewhere you can find it. **Applying, the festival replying, your answer to their reply, and their decision all count as a move** — so answering a counter on a closed call keeps it in front of you for another month. |
| Closed, and a month has passed with nothing happening | **Past.** Its page still works if you kept the link. |
| Closed, and you never applied | **Nowhere.** It leaves the board at the close. Its page still works — see [One call in detail](#one-call-in-detail). |
| Not open yet | **Nowhere**, and its page gives "page not found". A call a festival has scheduled but not published is invisible everywhere until it opens. |

**A festival can take its call down at any time**, and it comes off the board
the moment they do — even if the closing date it was showing is still weeks
away. **If you had already applied, nothing is lost:** your application stays on
your **Applied** tab, marked closed, and the festival can still accept or
decline it — and **you can still answer a counter on it.**

**A call also leaves the board while its festival is unavailable on
FilmScorecard** — from the **Open calls**, **Applied** and **Past** tabs alike,
and from their counts, even when you have applied to it. Its page, and your
application's, give "page not found" meanwhile, so there is nothing to apply to
and no counter to answer. **Nothing is lost:** once the festival is available again, the
call and your application are back where they were. See
[When a festival is unavailable](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/when-a-festival-is-unavailable.md).

**Withdrawing your application to a closed call takes it off the board**, because
your application was the only reason a closed call was listed for you. See
[Withdrawing an application](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/applying-to-an-open-call.md#withdrawing-an-application).

### The order

The board arrives in a fixed order:

1. **Open calls, soonest to close first.**
2. **Open calls with no closing date**, after those.
3. **Closed calls you applied to**, most recently closed first.

The line under the grid says the same thing back to you: "5 open calls and 1
closed call, all festivals. Open calls first, closing soonest first, then closed
calls you applied to." — with "filtered" in place of "all festivals" while
anything is narrowing the board.

**You can change it** with the **Sort** menu — see
[Searching, filtering and sorting](#searching-filtering-and-sorting).

## Reading a card

| On the card | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| The name in bold | **The festival.** |
| **"CALL-201 · Spring 2024 · Round 1 shorts panel"** | The call's code, the season, and the round the festival is hiring for. The last part is the festival's own name for the panel, and on a call posted from a festival's settings screen it simply reads **"Judge call"**. Quote the **CALL-** code if you ever need to refer to a call. |
| A pill in the corner | Your status on this call, when you have one. See [Your status on a call](#your-status-on-a-call). **No pill means you have not applied.** |
| **"$8.00 to $16.00 per scorecard"** | What the work pays. See [Money on these screens](#money-on-these-screens). |
| **"Paid 30 days after invoice"** | The festival's payment terms, under the pay line — on a paying call whose festival has set them, and nowhere else. |
| **"About 30 films, 4 judges needed"** | The size of the job, built from whatever the festival posted. Any part they left out is left off; a call that posted neither has no line at all. A pace the festival posted is not shown. |
| **"You judged here in 2026, 11 films scored"** | Only when you have really judged an earlier season for that festival and filed scores in it. It is your own record and nobody else can see it. |
| The closing line | See [The closing line](#the-closing-line). |
| **View call** / **View application** | The card is one big link — the whole thing opens the call. It reads **View application** once you have a status on it. |

**"View application" opens the call's page, not your application.** The two are
different screens: the call's page is the advertisement, and your application
lives at the same address with `/apply` on the end — see
[Finding your own application again](#finding-your-own-application-again).

**"4 judges needed" is what the festival is hiring, never how many seats are
taken.** Nothing on this board counts applicants or filled places, on any call.

**No category names are printed on the card**, though the search box still
matches them: the call's own page lists **the categories that call opens**, with
what each one pays. A festival can open a call to some of its season's
categories rather than all of them, and a category it left out is not on the
page, not in the form, and not something the search will find that call by.

## The closing line

The date at the foot of each card, and the **Applications** row on a call's page.

| It says | When |
| --- | --- |
| **"Closes in 12 days, May 12"**, plain grey | The closing date is more than a week out. |
| **"Closes in 5 days, May 12"**, in an amber pill | **Seven days or fewer.** |
| **"Closes today"**, in an amber pill | The last day. |
| **"Applications closed Apr 28"**, plain grey | It has closed. |
| *nothing at all* | The call has no closing date. It does not close, so no line is invented. |

Two things worth knowing about that number:

- **It is whole days and never hours.** "Closes today" is the floor: a call
  closing in four hours says "Closes today" and nothing more precise, because a
  countdown in hours invites you to start something you cannot finish.
- **The day is counted in universal time (UTC)**, so the figure reads the same
  at nine in the morning and at eleven at night, and it can be a day out from
  your own calendar if you are far from UTC. A call that closes later today
  reads "Closes today" right up to the moment it closes, and then reads
  "Applications closed" — both are true.

**The festival chose a date, not a time.** A call closes at the end of its
closing day in **that festival's season time zone**, which is another reason
the countdown can look a day out from where you are sitting.

**The deadline is real at the moment you submit**, not at the moment the form
opened. An application submitted after the close is refused with the date on it
— see [If applying is refused](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/applying-to-an-open-call.md#if-applying-is-refused).

**Closing a call does not close the conversation.** A festival can still decide
an application it already holds, and **you can still answer a counter on one**,
however long ago the call closed.

## Money on these screens

**A call does not post one rate. The season behind it posts a price per
category, and that is what you see.**

- **Every figure is per scorecard you file.** One category, one film, one card,
  one payment of that category's price. There is no flat-fee-for-the-round
  option on this surface.
- **The figure on a card and on a call's rail is a span across the categories**
  — the cheapest and the dearest — and it **collapses to one figure** when every
  category pays the same. **It spans the categories that call opens**, not the
  whole season, so two calls at one festival can quote different ranges. It is
  never a total, and nothing on these screens adds two rates together.
- **The per-category prices are on the call's own page**, one against each
  category name. See
  [Categories they need covered](#categories-they-need-covered).
- **Every figure carries two decimal places** — `$200.00 to $350.00`, never
  `$200 to $350`, and thousands are grouped: `$1,200.00`. Elsewhere in FilmScorecard
  a whole-dollar rate can print without the cents; **here it never does**, so
  that two calls' figures can be compared without a second look.

Two states are **not** money and must not be read as `$0.00`:

| It reads | What it means |
| --- | --- |
| **"Not priced yet"** | A paying festival that has not set figures for its categories yet. **You can still apply**, and name what you want for each category you pick. |
| **"Volunteer, no payout"** — or just **"Volunteer"** on a call's rail | The season pays nobody, by decision. Applying means volunteering your time, and the application never asks you for a figure. |

**You are quoted these prices and paid these prices.** Applying on **Festival
pricing** accepts what is posted; choosing **Custom** and changing a figure asks
for something else, and the festival can reply with a figure of its own —
**which you then accept, or answer with figures of your own.** What is finally
agreed per category is what an accepted application is worth — see
[Step 3](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/applying-to-an-open-call.md#step-3--rate-and-submit) and
[When the festival replies with different rates](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/applying-to-an-open-call.md#when-the-festival-replies-with-different-rates).

**These prices stay the call's, whatever you and the festival settle on.** The
per-category figures on this page are always what the festival posts to the
market; your own ask, and any counter, live on your application and nowhere
here.

**The price is frozen the moment you apply.** A coordinator who edits a category
afterwards does not change what you were quoted or what you agreed to.

**When the festival has set payment terms**, they sit beside the prices — on the
card and under the call's category list — as one line: "Paid 30 days after
invoice", or "Paid on the 1st of the month". **No line means the festival has
set none**, not that it pays on the spot.

**Nothing here is a payment.** No money moves through FilmScorecard: the
festival pays its judges itself — see
[the Payment card](#the-right-hand-column) at the foot of a call's page.

## Your status on a call

Five states, and they are the same on the card, on the call's page, on your
Applied tab and on your application itself.

| Status | What it means |
| --- | --- |
| **Not applied** | You have no application on this call. **It draws no pill** — the absence of a relationship is not worth a chip. |
| **Applied**, indigo | Your application is in and the festival has not decided. |
| **Counter received**, amber | **The festival has replied with different rates and is waiting on your answer.** |
| **Accepted**, green | You are on that panel. |
| **Not selected**, amber | The festival filled the panel from other applications. |

**"Applied" covers everything between filing and a decision that is not waiting
on you.** A festival works through applications privately — marking one to come
back to, for instance — and none of that changes your status here. In
particular:

- **Counter received is the one state that asks you for something**, and it is
  the only reason a pill turns amber before a decision. It appears the moment a
  festival replies with different figures and **goes back to Applied as soon as
  you answer** — whether you accept their rates or send back your own — because
  neither is waiting on you any more. It also goes back to Applied if the
  festival **withdraws** the counter without replacing it.
- **The pill is not a link and the figures are not on the card.** It says a reply
  is waiting; what they are offering, per category, and the two buttons for
  answering it are on your application — see
  [Finding your own application again](#finding-your-own-application-again) and
  [When the festival replies with different rates](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/applying-to-an-open-call.md#when-the-festival-replies-with-different-rates).
- **Nothing tells you where you stand in a queue of applicants**, because no such
  number is sent to your browser at all.

**Applied and Counter received are the states you can withdraw from.** Once a
call reads Accepted or Not selected there is no withdraw control anywhere. See
[Withdrawing an application](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/applying-to-an-open-call.md#withdrawing-an-application).

**Accepted means you are on that panel for the categories you picked.** A
festival that accepts your application puts you on the season scoped to the
categories your application named and the kind of work you said you could
cover — not to everything they run. They can widen or narrow it afterwards, and
nothing tells you when they do.

### Finding your own application again

**Nothing on the board or on a call's page links to it**, which is worth knowing
before you go looking: **Start application** is the only button that points at
the application address, and it is drawn only while you have no application.
Once you have one, there are two ways back to it:

- **The address.** It is the call's own address with `/apply` on the end. Open
  the call from the board, then add `/apply` — or bookmark it the first time.
- **The festival's email.** When they reply with different rates, that message
  carries a link straight to the screen where you answer.

Everything the application screen shows is described in
[After you apply](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/applying-to-an-open-call.md#after-you-apply).

## Searching, filtering and sorting

Everything on the toolbar applies as you set it. There is no Apply button —
the whole tab is already on the screen.

- **The search box** is headed "Search festivals and categories", and that is
  exactly what it matches: **festival names and category names, and nothing
  else.** Capitalisation is ignored and it matches anywhere in a word, so
  `short` finds "Documentary Short".

  **The category names it matches are the ones each call opens.** A festival
  that runs a Documentary Short category but did not open its call to it will
  not be found by searching for it.

  **It does not match the round line** printed on the card — "Round 1 shorts
  panel" is a festival's own shorthand and searching it would make the same word
  mean two things. **It does not match the CALL- code either**, though the code
  is printed on the card: search is for finding work you might want, and you
  already have the call in front of you if you can read its number. **And it
  does not match a place**: calls carry no city in this version, so there is
  nothing to search for.
- **Format** — **Film** and **Screenplay**, with a count each. Ticking both means
  "either". It carries **Select all** and **Clear**, and picking an option
  **leaves the list open** so you can pick a second. (Feature and short are not
  formats here; they live in category names.)
- **Sort** — the trigger shows the order you are in, and the menu offers four:
  **Closing soonest** (called **Recently updated** on the Applied and Past
  tabs), **Festival A-Z**, **Rate, high to low**, and **Films, most first**.
- **Clear filters** appears in the toolbar as soon as the search or the format
  filter is set. **It does not reset the sort**, which hides nothing and removes
  nothing.

**There is no filter for your own status**, so a call waiting on your answer is
found by looking rather than by narrowing. On the Applied tab, **Recently
updated** brings it near the top: the festival's reply counts as an update, and
so does your own answer to it.

**"Rate, high to low" orders by the dearest category each call posts.** A call
that pays nothing yet, and a volunteer one, sort to the bottom.

**The count beside each format option is of the whole tab and never moves when
you pick something else.** A count that shrank as you chose would only be telling
you what you had already chosen.

At the right of the toolbar, a monospace line reports both at once — **"3 open,
1 closed, of 5 open and 2 closed"** — so a narrowed board can still tell you how
much it is hiding.

**The tabs and the toolbar stay pinned to the top** as the cards scroll under
them, so search, the filter and the other tabs are always one tap away.

### Your filters are in the address

Search, Format and Sort all live in the page's address, and each tab is an
address of its own. So **a filtered board can be bookmarked, shared or reached
again with the back button**, and reloading keeps what you set.

An address somebody mistyped or edited by hand never breaks the screen — a value
FilmScorecard cannot read simply narrows nothing, and an unreadable sort falls back
to the default order.

### When nothing is listed

Three different empty states, and they are not the same thing:

- **Your filters exclude everything** — "No open calls match these filters" over
  "No call matches the filters you have set.", or "Nothing matches *what you
  typed* with these filters.", with a **Clear filters** button.
- **The Open calls tab is genuinely empty** — "No open calls right now" over
  "Festivals post a call here when a round needs judges." **There is no button**,
  because nothing you can do changes it. See
  [Why the board can still be empty](#why-the-board-can-still-be-empty).
- **The Applied tab is empty** — "No live applications" over "An application
  shows here until a month after the festival answers it, or a month after the
  call closes."

The **Past** tab has its own pair — "No past applications yet" over "An
application moves here a month after its call closes, or a month after the
festival answers it. Nothing has reached that point." — and, when it does hold
something, **Older applications** and **Back to the newest** at the foot.

## One call in detail

A card opens a real page with an address of its own — `/judge/open-calls/` and a
long identifier — so a call can be bookmarked, shared, and opened in a new tab.
**A call's page keeps working after the call closes**; only the board drops it.
**← All open calls** at the top goes back.

The heading block carries the round, the festival's name, and a monospace line —
**"CALL-201 · Spring 2024"** — with your status pill beside it. **That pill is
the same one the card wears**, including the amber **Counter received**.

### The work

Up to five labelled facts, and then the festival's own paragraph about the round.

| Fact | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| **Films** | "About 30" — an estimate made when the call was posted, not a promise. **It is the only film figure on these screens**, and it is about the whole round. |
| **Judging window** | "Jun 1 to Jul 10" — **when the panel scores**, which is a different thing from when applications close. |
| **Formats** | Film, Screenplay, or both. |
| **Languages** | What this slate is in, in their words. |
| **Scorecard** | "Preliminary Shorts, 5 criteria" when one scorecard covers the whole call, or "Varies by category, 3 scorecards" when the categories differ. |

**Anything the festival did not post is left out entirely** — no dashes, no "Not
specified" — and the grid closes up around the gap. **Expect most calls to be
sparse here**: the screen a festival uses to open a call collects the deadline,
the kind of judging and the categories, and **none of the five facts above**, so
a call posted from it arrives with an almost empty grid. A call with none of
them still shows the card and its heading. **A festival's expected pace is no
longer shown here, even on a call that posted one**: films differ in length, so
a films-a-week figure misled more than it told.

**A sparse call still takes a full application.** Nothing the application asks
depends on these facts. See
[Applying to an open call](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/applying-to-an-open-call.md#the-three-steps).

### Categories they need covered

**The categories this call opens, with what each pays** — under a **Film**
heading and then a **Screenplay** heading. A heading with no categories under it
is not drawn, and an episode category, or one with no kind of its own, sits
under Film. The count in the card's header is the number of *categories* on
offer here.

**The prices are in columns**, headed once: **Category**, then **Creative**
and/or **Technical** — one column for each kind of judging the call hires for.
The list scrolls inside the card once it is long, with the headings staying put.

| A price cell shows | When |
| --- | --- |
| A figure — `$16.00` | What that category pays for that kind of judging, per scorecard filed. |
| **"Not priced"** | The festival has set no figure for it yet. This festival is quoting nothing for it — **and it is never printed as `$0.00`.** |
| **"—"** | That category cannot be judged that way: it has no scorecard for that kind of judging. |
| *no price columns at all* | A volunteer panel. There are no prices because there is no pay. |

**On a paying call whose festival has set payment terms**, one line under the
list says when it pays — "Paid 30 days after invoice".

- **The prices are live**, read at the moment you open the page, and they come
  from the season's own category pricing rather than from anything typed on the
  call. **They are the call's posted prices and never your own** — a figure you
  asked for, and any counter the festival made, are on your application.
- **This list can be narrower than the season's line-up.** A festival chooses
  which of its categories a call is open to. Where they opened it to all of
  them, this is the whole season; where they picked a few, it is those few, and
  **a category that is not listed here cannot be applied for** — it is not on
  the form either.
- **A category is also left out when nothing on it can be judged the way this
  call hires.** The restriction and the scorecards narrow the list together, so
  a listed category is one you could genuinely be assigned from.
- **There is no film count here.** Festivals tell you the size of the round —
  "About 30" above — and not how it splits across categories.
- Under the list: "You pick the categories you want in the application. Taking
  fewer than all of them does not weaken your application."
- A call with nothing left after both of those narrowings keeps the card and
  says **"No categories listed yet"** rather than showing an empty list. **Such
  a call cannot be applied to at all** — see
  [When you cannot apply](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/applying-to-an-open-call.md#when-you-cannot-apply).

### What your application states

The last card is the list of things the application will ask you for, so the cost
of applying is known before the form opens: **Categories you want** ("Pick from
the 6 above. The coordinator assigns inside what you pick."), **Formats you can
cover** ("This call takes films and screenplays."), **Languages and subtitles**,
and **What you are paid**. **It no longer mentions your pace or the dates you are
away**, because the application no longer asks for them.

The last bullet is where the money is stated in a sentence:

| It reads | When |
| --- | --- |
| "$16.00 per scorecard filed. You can accept that for each category you pick, or ask for something different." | Every category pays the same. |
| "$8.00 to $16.00 per scorecard filed, depending on the category. You can accept what is posted or ask for something different." | They differ. |
| "Nothing on this call is priced yet. You can still apply and name what you want for each category you pick." | A paying festival with no figures set. |
| "This is a volunteer panel. There is no fee for the work, and applying means volunteering." | A volunteer season. |

Bullets that depend on something the festival did not post are dropped, so a bare
call shows a shorter list.

**That list is what the form asks**, over three steps — the form also asks
which kind of judging you want when the call hires for both — see
[Applying to an open call](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/applying-to-an-open-call.md).

### The right-hand column

**Pay, per scorecard** at the top, and under it the span across this call's
categories. Under that, a line saying what to do about it:

| The figure | The line under it |
| --- | --- |
| `$16.00`, or `$8.00 to $16.00` | A line saying this is what each category pays per scorecard filed, and that you can accept the posted price or ask for something different. |
| **Not priced yet** | "This festival has not priced its categories yet. You can still apply and name what you want for each one." |
| **Volunteer** | "This panel is unpaid. Applying means volunteering your time." |

Then a short summary — the **Applications** closing line, **Judges needed** when
the festival posted one, and the **Season**.

Under that, one of these, and never more than one:

| What you see | When |
| --- | --- |
| **Start application**, a blue button, with "Three steps, about five minutes. Nothing is sent to the festival until you submit." | The call is open and you have not applied. It opens the form — see [Applying to an open call](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/applying-to-an-open-call.md). |
| **Application in review** — "Applied May 3", "Your application covers 2 categories, at the prices on your application. The coordinator reviews after May 12.", and an amber **Withdraw application** | You have applied. When the call has closed or has no closing date, the second sentence is "You will hear either way." |
| **You are on this panel** — when scoring opens, and an **Open your queue** button | You were accepted. |
| **Not selected for this panel** — "The festival filled the panel from other applications. You can apply again next season." | You were not selected. **No reason is ever shown here.** The festival picks a reason when they decline and it reaches you in their email, not on this screen. |
| Nothing at all | The call has closed and you never applied. There is nothing left to do on it, so nothing is offered. |

Four notes on the **Application in review** block:

- **It names no figure**, on purpose: your application is a price per category
  now, and one number in this sentence could only be a summary of several. The
  full breakdown is one click away on the application itself, and putting it in
  two places is how the two come to disagree.
- **"2 categories" is dropped when there is nothing to count**, and the sentence
  falls back to "the categories you picked". That is what an application filed
  before the application form existed looks like. **An application filed before
  per-category pricing reads the same sentence as every other** — the single
  per-film figure it once quoted here is gone.
- **It does not change when the festival replies with different rates.** The
  words are the same; only the pill beside the heading turns amber and reads
  **Counter received**. The figures, and the two buttons for answering them, are
  on the application itself.
- **Withdraw deletes the application**, here exactly as it does on the
  application's own screen, with the same confirmation — **with one difference**:
  the extra line about a standing counter is only on the application screen's own
  Withdraw. See
  [Withdrawing an application](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/applying-to-an-open-call.md#withdrawing-an-application).

**Open your queue** goes to that festival's judging home. If the festival has
since paused or removed you there, that address gives "page not found" rather
than an explanation — the **Festivals** tab of
[your account](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-account.md#festivals) is where your standing at each
festival is spelled out.

Then **About the festival**: the festival's one-line description — at most two
lines of it, however long it is — what the festival wrote about itself, a
monospace "9 seasons on FilmScorecard", its location and website when it has
given them, and your own history line when you have one.

And last, **Payment**:

> The festival pays you directly. FilmScorecard keeps your statements and
> invoices but does not pay judges.
>
> Paid by — The festival

**That is the whole arrangement, and the Judge Code of Conduct says the same.**
FilmScorecard holds no judge pay and there is no payout account to connect
anywhere in it. Treat a figure on this surface as a record of what was agreed.
Once you are on a paid panel, your statement on [Earnings](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/earnings.md) is
where that record lives.

### When a call's address does not work

**"Page not found"** covers four different situations and deliberately does not
distinguish them: an address that was mistyped, a call that never existed, a
call a festival has scheduled but not opened yet, and a call whose festival is
unavailable on FilmScorecard at the moment. A closed call is *not* one of
them — those pages keep working.

## What other judges see

This screen is built around one promise, and it is worth stating in full:

- **Your prices and your application are visible to the festival you applied to,
  and to no other judge.** Not their contents, not their existence, and not
  whether either of you has replied to the other.
- **You never see another judge's anything either** — no name, no rate, no
  application, no ranking.
- **The board shows no applicant counts and no filled seats**, on any call, ever.
  "4 judges needed" is the size of the panel being hired, and there is no figure
  anywhere for how much of it is spoken for.

None of that is a setting, and no festival can switch it on. The private facts
are never sent to your browser in the first place.

## On a narrow window or a phone

- The sidebar becomes a bar across the top with a **Menu** button.
- The cards reflow to fewer per row, and to one on a phone.
- **Format and Sort fold into one Filters button** the moment the toolbar
  would run onto a second line, and always on a phone. It opens a panel with
  one row per filter; the button shows how many formats are picked.
- On a phone the toolbar is one line — search and **Filters** — and the count
  gives way to the line under the cards, which says the same.
- The tabs are one line; if they do not fit, swipe them sideways.
- On a call's page, the right-hand column moves underneath the left one.
- **Start application** goes full width, and every control is a comfortable size.
- **Apart from the tabs, nothing on these screens scrolls sideways.**

## What these screens do not have

Named plainly so you do not go looking:

- **No link to your own application.** The pill says a reply is waiting; getting
  to the screen that answers it means the address with `/apply` on the end, or
  the festival's email — see
  [Finding your own application again](#finding-your-own-application-again).
- **No answering a counter from the board.** The accepting and the sending back
  are on your application — see
  [When the festival replies with different rates](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/applying-to-an-open-call.md#when-the-festival-replies-with-different-rates).
- **No badge and no notice from the board itself when a festival replies.** The
  pill appears when a page loads; the festival's own email is the only thing
  that arrives unprompted.
- **No filter or sort by your own status**, so a call waiting on your answer is
  found by looking down the Applied tab rather than by narrowing it.
- **No editing an application you have already sent.** Withdraw and apply again,
  while the call is still open, is the only way to change one — and the second
  application is quoted at today's prices. Sending back a revised ask changes
  the figures only, and only in answer to a counter.
- **No alert when a new call appears.** The quiet number beside **Open calls** is
  the only signal, and it moves when a page loads. No email goes out for a new
  call — and none goes out when you apply, either.
- **No saving or shortlisting a call for yourself.** Keep the link.
- **No location.** Calls carry no city, so there is nothing to filter or search
  by, and none is shown.
- **No film counts per category**, anywhere, on any of these screens.
- **No sign of the categories a festival left out of a call.** You see what the
  call opens; the rest of the season is not shown and there is nothing to ask
  for.
- **No different categories for each kind of judging.** On a call that hires
  for both, one application can ask for both — but for the same categories under
  each.
- **The board itself writes nothing.** Filtering, sorting and searching change
  only what you are looking at. The only things on these screens that write are
  **Start application** and **Withdraw application**, both of which live on a
  call's own page.

## Related guides

- [Applying to an open call](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/applying-to-an-open-call.md) — the three-step form
  behind **Start application**, what each step asks, what happens when you
  submit, answering a festival that replies with different rates, and
  withdrawing afterwards.
- [Your judging home](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-judging-home.md) — the screen the **Open calls** row
  sits under: the film in front of you at a festival that already has you.
- [Your account](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-account.md) — listing yourself in the judges directory,
  whether you judge for pay, and the festivals you judge for.
- [When a festival is unavailable](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/when-a-festival-is-unavailable.md) — why a
  call can leave the board and come back.