The public film page

Every film or screenplay a filmmaker keeps in Your projects has one public web page. It is the filmmaker's own: they build it from blocks, they choose how it looks, and only they can publish it or make it private. It carries whatever blocks they put on it — the title and details, a trailer, text, stills, links, press quotes, screenings, cast and crew and, with Creator Pro, a contact form — and laurels for the results festivals on FilmScorecard have announced for it.

It never carries a score, a rank, a judge's name or anything a judge wrote, and nothing a festival has not yet announced. Those are not hidden on the page; they are not sent to it at all.

The page lives at

https://filmscorecard.com/p/<address>

where <address> is made from the project's title when the project is made, and can be changed while the page is not public. See The page address.

This guide is mostly for filmmakers. Filling the page in is Editing your page. If you run a festival, see If you run a festival for what reaches the page from your seasons.

Who sees it

Anybody includes you. Somebody with no account, a judge, a festival's staff, FilmScorecard's own staff and the filmmaker themselves all get the same answer from the address. There is no password, and no edit control on the page for anybody. You build and preview it from the Page tab of your project in Your projects, never from its public address.

Every new page starts not published yet. Nobody can open its address until you publish it.

Making your page public

Open your project and choose Page (at /projects/<id>/page). That tab is where you build the page; the bar across its top says where the page stands. Before the first publish it reads Page with a Not published yet pill, the address the page will have, and a Publish page button on the right.

Everything you change on the Page tab saves to a draft as you go. Visitors never see the draft: they see what you last published, and nothing changes for them until you publish again. Building the draft is Editing your page.

1. Press Publish page.
2. The first time, a dialog opens: Your page is live — "Anyone with the link can see it now. Edits stay in your draft until you publish again." — with a short Where to use it list, Copy link (it reads Copied for a moment) and Done.

The page is up from that moment; there is nothing to wait for. The pill leaves the bar, and the button reads Published, greyed, until you change something. After that it reads Publish 1 change, Publish 3 changes and so on, and pressing it says "Published. 3 changes are live."

Publishing can be held. While a colour is hard to read or a field needs fixing, the button is greyed and a red line beside it says why: "Fix colours to publish", "Fix 2 fields to publish" or "Fix colours and 2 fields to publish". See What holds publishing.

Only you can publish your page. Festival staff cannot, and neither can FilmScorecard's own staff. Publishing is free, and nothing is sent to anybody when you do it.

Making it private again

Press ⋯ in the page bar, then Make page private. There is no dialog: the page can always be published again. The message "Your page is private." appears, and the bar's pill reads Private.

From the next request the address answers Page not found for everybody, you included — the same screen a mistyped address gets. Nothing about it tells a visitor the page used to exist. Search engines drop it on their own schedule, which FilmScorecard cannot hurry.

Nothing is lost. Your draft and the page's address stay. Press Publish page to make it public again: the message reads "Your page is public again." What goes up is your draft as it stands then, so any changes you made while the page was private go up with it.

If either button is refused, a message says so and nothing changed: "That did not change. Try again.", or "This project is no longer available." when the project is no longer yours.

If your page is taken down

FilmScorecard can take a page down. When it does:

• The page goes private at once, and its address, its images, its counts and its contact form all answer as if it did not exist.
• You cannot publish it. The page bar says "This page was taken down. Contact support." beside a greyed button, and the Page card on your project's Overview reads Taken down, with no Copy link.
• You can still edit your draft and change the page's address.
• No email is sent to you, when it is taken down or when it is restored. To ask about it, use the contact form.

When the takedown is lifted, the page stays private until you press Publish page yourself.

The page address

The page's address is made once, when the project is made: when you add it yourself, or when FilmScorecard makes it from a festival submission saved to your account. It comes from the title as it stands then, lower-cased, with accents taken off and runs of anything that is not a letter or a digit turned into a single hyphen: Salt Flats becomes salt-flats. It is cut to 80 characters if the title is longer. If another page already has that address, -2 is added, then -3, and so on. A title that yields nothing usable, such as ???, gets film- and eight letters and digits of its own instead.

You can change it while the page is not public: before the first publish, or while it is private (or taken down). Press Change beside the address in the page bar, type the new one in Choose your page address and press Save address. An address is 3 to 60 lowercase letters, digits and single hyphens, and it must not already belong to another page: "That address is taken." See Page address.

• While the page is public, the address is fixed. Change is not shown. Make the page private first if you must move it.
• The old address is not redirected. Once you change it, the old address answers Page not found, and anyone holding a link to it lands there. Pick the address before you share the link.
• Changing the title does not rename the page. Neither does anything else on the Details tab.
• Making it private and public again keeps the address, so a link somebody saved works again the moment you republish — as long as you did not change the address in between.
• An address longer than 60 characters, from a long title, keeps working as it is until you change it.

Seeing it as a visitor sees it

The preview on your project's Page tab is drawn the same way the public page is, in your page's own design. Two ways to see exactly what a visitor gets:

• View as visitor, in the page bar (in the ⋯ menu on a phone). The builder steps aside; a Draft preview bar with Back to editing sits over your draft, full screen, exactly as Publish would put it up — empty and hidden blocks left out. It shows what visitors will see, not what they see now. The contact form's Send is greyed: nothing can be sent from a preview. On a project without Pro, the preview leaves the contact form out and shows Made with FilmScorecard, as the public page does.
• Open the address yourself, while the page is public. You get the published page, exactly as a visitor does. While it is not public, you get Page not found like everybody else.

Your own visits are not counted. Neither View as visitor nor a visit to the public address while you are signed in adds a view, a visitor, a video play or a link click. The contact form on the public address is the real one, though: a message you send yourself from it is sent, like anybody's.

Password protection

A page has no password. It is either public, for anybody holding the address, or not public, for nobody. There is no way to show it to some people and not others; to stop people seeing it, make it private.

There is no judges-only screener on the page either. Nothing on it is shown only to judges or festivals, and no judge's or festival's screen links to it.

What visitors see

The page is your blocks, in the order you put them, in your page's own design: its theme, fonts, colours, link-button style and background. There is no FilmScorecard bar or menu around it.

Only filled-in, shown blocks reach a visitor. A block you have hidden, or one with nothing in it, is left out entirely — no heading, no gap where it would go. A block's heading, where it has one, is yours, or its own default when you leave it empty.

The layout.

• Side column: on a wide window, the Header, Social links and Link buttons sit in a column on the left that stays in view while everything else scrolls beside it. On a narrower window, and on a phone, the page is one column, with those blocks first.
• Centred: one column on every screen, centred, in block order.
• A background image, if you chose one, is shown dimmed behind the page, with your blocks on a panel of your background colour.
• "Made with FilmScorecard" sits at the bottom right of the window as visitors scroll, and comes to rest at the foot of the page. It is plain text, not a link. A project without Pro always shows it; with Pro you can take it off with the Made with FilmScorecard footer switch on the Design tab, then publish. See Editing your page.

The blocks:

Every link opens in a new tab: Link buttons, social links, ticket links, review links and places to watch. All of them are full https:// addresses. Everything you typed shows as plain text.

There is no Share button on the page. Visitors share it by its address; what a pasted link shows is in Link previews and search engines.

The video

Before anybody presses play, nothing loads from Vimeo or YouTube. The frame shows the image you picked as its cover, or a plain frame captioned with the video's address (without its https://).

• Press play and the video starts in the frame.
• A Vimeo or YouTube link that cannot be played in a frame — a Vimeo On Demand page, for instance — opens in a new tab instead.

Messages from visitors

Visitors write to you through a Contact form block, when your project has Pro and your published page has one shown. There is no way to put your email address on the page instead: the form is the only way, and your address stays hidden.

The contact form is part of Creator Pro. On a project without Pro, the page leaves the Contact form block out, whatever your draft holds: you can keep one in your draft and publish, and it simply does not show.

• When Pro starts, your published page changes at once: a Contact form already on it shows, and Made with FilmScorecard goes if you had switched it off. There is nothing to publish again.
• When Pro ends, the form leaves your page at once, and Made with FilmScorecard comes back if you had taken it off. Nothing is deleted from your draft or your published page: take Pro again, and the form and your footer setting come back without publishing.

Contact form

Under the block's heading and your intro sit four boxes — Your name, Email, Organisation (optional) and Message (up to 2,000 characters) — a person check and a Send button, which reads Sending… while it works. The boxes are the same on every page; only the heading and the intro are yours.

Where the message goes:

• It is emailed to the address you log in with, as it is when the message is sent, from FilmScorecard's own address. The subject reads "Name sent a message about Title". Reply goes straight to the visitor.
• Your address is never shown to the visitor.
• It is also kept, in your bell, under Updates: "Name sent you a message". If the email cannot be sent, the bell says so and the message is still there to read. See Reading a message.
• It is listed on the project's Messages tab, marked New, where you can reply to it and archive it.
• It is kept with the project, and deleted with it.

Limits. A page takes at most 10 messages an hour from everybody together, and 3 an hour from any one network.

What a visitor can meet:

Festival results on your page

Festival results reach your page as laurels, at the top of your Laurels block, each marked ✓ Verified. They are written by FilmScorecard, never by you, from the festival entries in this project — the submissions saved to your account and grouped under it — and they show only what each festival has announced.

• They need a Laurels block. A new page does not start with one; add it from Add a block, under From FilmScorecard — see Laurels. Without it, no festival result is on your page.
• They fill in and change by themselves. A result a festival announces after you publish appears on its own, with no publish and no change to your draft; a result that is taken back goes the same way.
• You cannot edit them, or hide one on its own. You can rename, move, hide or remove the whole Laurels block, and add laurels of your own under them.

See Your festival entries for the entries themselves.

The two dates

Each festival season has two dates of its own, set by the festival: the Notification date and Award winners announced. Each is read in the festival's own time zone, and arrives at the start of its day. Nothing on your page about that festival moves before them, whatever the festival has decided.

Notification date

A withdrawn or disqualified entry never appears, before or after the date.

Award winners announced

Before the date, or with no date set, nothing decided in the season's award pools reaches your page.

From the date, the festival's laurel reads the entry's highest standing across the season's award pools:

One laurel per entry, whatever it won. Two wins in one season still make one Winner laurel, and the award's own name is not on it.

The two dates are independent. A season whose awards date has arrived while its Notification date has not shows the award regardless.

What each festival's tile shows

Each festival laurel is one tile in the Laurels block, one per festival entry that has something announced, newest season first. It reads, top to bottom:

• the result, from the tables above — Official Selection, Winner and so on;
• the festival's name;
• the season's year and the first category the entry competes in — 2026, Drama — or the year alone;
• ✓ Verified.

There is no festival logo and no laurel artwork, and tiles are not links. The laurels you add yourself follow them, with no Verified mark.

Across organizations. Your page lists every festival on FilmScorecard that holds an entry in this project, whichever organization runs it, each behind its own two dates.

Visitors and you see the same laurels. The Laurels block on the Page tab shows only the results that are already on your page; an entry with nothing announced yet is not shown anywhere.

Link previews and search engines

A public page can be indexed by search engines, and there is no switch to stop it. A page that is not public is never indexed.

Pasting the address into a message or a social post shows a preview card, built from your published page:

• the title: the project's title;
• the text: your Header's tagline, or, with no tagline, the first line of the first Text block that has any text — or no text at all;
• the image: your poster when the Header's layout is Poster, the still you chose when it is Still, otherwise the first image of your first Images block — or no image at all.

There is nothing to set. Change the card by changing those blocks and publishing. Hidden blocks never feed it.

Images

Every image on the page is served through the page's own address, and only while the page is public: the poster while the Header shows it, and every image a shown block draws.

• A replaced image shows at once. Each uploaded image has an address of its own, so a new image is a new address, and a new poster shows straight away too.
• One thing to know about making a page private. Once a visitor has seen an image other than the poster — a still, a photo, a video cover or the background — their browser and the caches along the way may keep it for up to a year. So after you make the page private, after it is taken down, or after you publish without that image, somebody holding the exact address of one image — not the page — may still open it. The poster is kept only by each visitor's own browser, for up to a day. The page itself, its contact form and its counts stop at once.

What your page counts

Your page counts these, one total for each per day, with or without Pro:

• a view: one load of the page by a visitor;
• a visitor: somebody who loaded the page that day, counted once however many times they load it;
• where each visitor came from: the website they arrived from, such as Instagram, or a word of your own (see Naming where visitors came from), taken from their first visit of the day;
• a video play: a visitor pressing play on a Video block, whether the video then plays in the frame or opens in a new tab. It counts once per Video block per visit: pressing it again adds nothing;
• a link click: every press of a Link block's button.

What is and is not counted:

• Only Link buttons count as link clicks. Social links, Tickets, Read the review and places to watch are not counted.
• Nothing is put on the visitor's device, and no cookie is used. To count each visitor once a day, the page combines the visitor's IP address and browser with a random value that is replaced every day, and keeps only the scrambled result, for that day only. No IP address is stored. Where a visitor came from is kept as a website's name only, never the page or link they came from, and nothing else about them is recorded: no name, no email address.
• A visitor who reloads the page counts again, for a view and for a play, but not as another visitor that day.
• Not counted: your own visits while signed in, View as visitor, the Page tab's preview, FilmScorecard's own staff while signed in, anybody signed in as a member, staff or judge of an organization holding one of this project's festival entries, and anything while the page is not public or is taken down.
• You see the totals for the last 30 days on your project's Overview, in its Page card, under Last 30 days: Views, Video plays and Link clicks, with or without Pro. See Your projects.
• With Pro, the Stats tab shows them all, visitors and where they came from included, for the last 7 days, the last 30 days or since you first published.
• Nobody else sees them, and they are never on the page itself.

Naming where visitors came from

When you share your page, add ?ref= and a word of your own to its address:

https://filmscorecard.com/p/salt-flats?ref=newsletter

The page opens as usual, and visitors who open that link are counted under newsletter in Stats. The word is letters, digits, dots, hyphens and underscores, up to 40 characters. See Naming a source yourself.

What the page never shows

Not sent to the page at all, whatever your project holds:

• Scores, ranks, scorecards, judges' names or notes — nothing from judging.
• A festival's unannounced decisions, and never In consideration or Not selected.
• Anything from a festival's copy of your submission. Your page is your project, not what the festival received; what you change on one never changes the other.
• Festival tracking numbers, SUB- codes, entry fees or prices.
• A screener, or anything meant only for judges.
• The address you log in with, or any email address of yours.
• Messages, or what the page counts: views, visitors, where they came from, video plays and link clicks.
• Your draft. Edits wait in it until you publish.
• Hidden blocks, and empty ones.

When a link shows "page not found"

A page address answers Page not found — for everybody, its own filmmaker included — when:

• the page is not public: never published, made private, or taken down;
• it is an old address: the filmmaker changed the page's address since, and old addresses are not redirected;
• the address is mistyped — it is lower-case letters, digits and single hyphens, nothing else;
• the project no longer exists — see When a project goes away by itself;
• it is the address of a page a festival published for a submission before pages became the filmmaker's own. Those pages are retired, and their addresses lead nowhere.

All of them read the same. A page that answers is always a public page.

If you run a festival

You have no control over a film's public page. It belongs to the filmmaker who keeps the project. A submission's detail panel has no Public page card any more: you cannot publish a page for a submission, and you cannot take a filmmaker's page down.

What reaches it from your festival is one laurel per entry, built only from what the filmmaker's own festival entries carry, and only once you announce:

• your festival's name, the season's year, and the first of the categories the film is entered in;
• Official Selection, from the season's Notification date, for a submission you selected;
• its award standing, from the season's Award winners announced date — Winner, Honorable Mention, Nominee and so on, never the award's own name.

Both dates are on Settings → Season; the standings are decided on Awards and in the award pools. Your festival's logo is not on the laurel, and your festival's website is not linked from the page.

Your submission record does not feed the page. When a filmmaker first saves a submission to their account, the project FilmScorecard makes for them starts as a copy of your record — its title, tagline, synopsis, credits, poster and a few more fields; see Which project it joins. After that the two are separate: editing the Information tab changes nothing on their page, and their page changes nothing on your record.

Results appear only on the pages of filmmakers who have saved the submission to their FilmScorecard account, put a Laurels block on their page and published it. The same announcements reach that filmmaker's bell and their Festivals tab; see The bell.

Your visits are not counted in the filmmaker's figures while you are signed in as a member, staff or judge of an organization holding one of the film's entries. Signed out, you are counted like any visitor, and never named.

What does not work yet

• An old address is not redirected, and the address cannot change while the page is public.
• No password, no custom domain, and no way to keep a public page out of search engines.
• No day-by-day view of the counts, and nothing about who visited. Without Pro, the Overview shows the last 30 days as three totals; Stats, with Pro, goes back to your first publish.
• One owner per page. Nobody else can be given a hand in editing it.
• The wording of festival results is FilmScorecard's. Every laurel says Official Selection, Winner and the rest in the same words, with no laurel artwork and no festival logo.
• "Page not found" is the ordinary light screen, whatever your page looks like.

Related guides

• Editing your page — the Page tab: blocks, the design, the draft and publishing.
• Your projects — the project's tabs, and the Overview with its Page card.
• The bell — the messages visitors send, and festival news.
• Creator Pro — the contact form, Messages, Stats and taking the footer off, for one project.
• Messages — every message from your contact form, to reply to and archive.
• Stats — what your page counts, by period, with where visitors came from.
• Your festival entries — the entries the festival laurels are built from.
• Festival settings — where a festival sets its two announcement dates.
• Page not found — what a page that is not public answers.