Your account

Two screens hold everything a festival knows about you as a judge. Your profile is who you are, where you are and what you are willing to review — shown the way it reads, with a pencil on each section to change it. Your account is the settings around it: whether festivals can find you, which ones may not, how much you can take on, which festivals you work for, and what reaches your inbox.

One set of settings, for the whole of FilmScorecard. Nothing here belongs to a particular festival. Change your bio once and every festival that can see you sees the new one; pause new assignments once and every festival you judge for is paused at the same moment.

Finding the screen

Three ways in:

• Profile and Account are the last two rows of the left navigation of the judging area, under Next submission, Open calls, Inbox — and Earnings, once any season has you on its roster (see Earnings).
• Your profile and Your account in the menu behind your name in the top-right corner. That menu is also where Sign out now lives — see Signing out.
• Their addresses directly:

/account/profile
/account

Both open even if you never finished the four setup steps — a profile you have not filled in yet simply shows empty. Arriving signed out sends you to the log-in screen.

What is on it

Your account opens with its title, Your account, and one sentence: "Your directory listing, how much you take on, and how festivals reach you. One set of settings across every festival you judge for." Under it — only while you are paused — the amber pause banner, then the four tabs.

Every setting is a row: on the left, its name and a sentence or two saying what it does; on the right, the control.

The tab is part of the address

Your account has four tabs — Directory listing, Availability, Festivals, Notifications — and the one you are on is written into the address:

Reload, or come back to a bookmark, and you land on the same tab. An address naming a tab that does not exist opens Directory listing rather than failing — so an old link to ?tab=profile or ?tab=what-you-judge still works; what those tabs held is on Your profile now.

Moving between tabs replaces the address rather than stacking it, so Back takes you off the account screen rather than walking you through four tabs.

What the screen does not carry

• No festival of its own. Nothing on this screen belongs to one festival, so the festival switcher along the top reads Your festivals rather than a name, with nothing in its menu highlighted; picking a festival from it opens your judging home for that festival. The sidebar is the same one every judging screen carries — the Your festivals list included, once any season has you on its roster — and a festival there opens the same place. With no seat anywhere, both the switcher and the list are absent.
• The line at the bottom of the sidebar reads "These settings belong to your account and follow you to every festival you judge for."

How saving works

Your account and Your profile save in different ways.

On Your account

Each setting saves in one of two ways:

• Switches and choices save the moment you change them, with no button — the listing switch and How you judge on Directory listing, the pause switch and its resume date on Availability, and everything on Notifications. On Directory listing and Notifications a line reads Saving… while the change is on its way. A refused change puts the control back where it was, with the reason in an amber strip at the top of its card.
• A list or a typed field waits for the tab's Save bar — the Blocked festivals card on Directory listing, and the Availability card. Change anything there and a bar floats at the bottom of the screen: an amber dot, Unsaved changes on Directory listing (or on Availability), Discard and Save changes. Discard puts the tab back as it was last saved; Save changes saves it and the bar goes.

With nothing unsaved, the tab ends with a quiet line instead: All changes saved., followed by Last saved and a date once there is one.

The bar warns you in two ways:

• "Fix the highlighted setting before saving." — a field on the tab is over its limit. Save changes stays greyed until you fix it.
• "Some changes weren't saved. The card above says why." — the save was refused. The card says why at its top, or under the field it belongs to, and nothing you typed is cleared. Fix it and press Save changes again.

Switching tabs keeps unsaved work. A change still waiting on Directory listing or Availability stays where you left it while you look at another tab, and that tab's name carries a small amber dot until you save or discard it.

Leaving the screen does not. Nothing warns you about unsaved changes here: following a link, or closing the browser tab, discards anything still waiting for Save changes, with no prompt.

The dates on the Directory listing card's own line and at the foot of Availability are the last time anything on your profile was saved — from this screen or from Your profile, not only from that card.

On Your profile

Every section saves on its own, and only when you press its button, inside the section's dialog. A successful save closes the dialog and shows the new values.

• The button — Save profile or Save what you judge — is greyed out until you change something in that dialog.
• Beside it, a monospace line: Saved just now immediately after a save, Saved Aug 14, 2026, 10:04 AM afterwards, or Not saved yet.
• A refused field is marked in red with the message under it, replacing that field's help line. A refusal that belongs to no single field appears as an amber strip directly above the Save row.
• Nothing you typed is cleared by a refusal. Fix the field and press Save again.

Your profile

/account/profile, under the YOUR PROFILE label. Five cards, read first:

• The intro — your photo or initials, your display name and pronouns, your judge type, where you are, and your public link.
• About — your short bio, or an Add a short bio link while it is empty.
• Credits — the same, with Add credits.
• What I judge — judge type, formats, genres and languages as tags, and whether you have a FilmFreeway account (Yes or No).
• Judging record — films scored, the share of them on time, and seasons judged. Nothing to edit: it is what you have done. It appears once you have a judge ID.

View public profile, top right, opens what a coordinator actually sees — see View public profile. It is not this page: your photo, for one, is not shown to coordinators yet.

Each of the first four has a pencil in its top-right corner (Edit intro, Edit about, Edit credits, Edit what I judge). It opens a dialog with just that section's fields and its own Save; Escape or clicking outside closes it without saving. Your phone number is in Edit intro but is never shown on the card.

About and Credits save with your intro's fields as they stand, so if your intro is missing something required — a judge who skipped setup has no country yet — their Save is refused with "Fix your intro first:" and the reason. Open Edit intro, fix it, and try again.

Your photo

At the top of Edit intro: your photo or your initials, Upload photo, and — only when you have one — Remove photo.

• PNG, JPG and WebP, up to 5 MB. The help line names PNG and JPG; WebP works too.
• The photo is not part of the card's Save. It commits on its own as soon as the upload lands, and the new image appears immediately while it is still going up.
• Remove photo puts you back to initials, straight away.
• A failed upload leaves your previous photo alone and says so under the row. You will see one of "Choose a PNG, JPG or WebP image.", "Choose an image under 5 MB.", or "That photo could not be uploaded. Your previous one is unchanged."

Your photo is not shown to coordinators anywhere yet — the judges directory draws initials for everybody, and so does your own preview of it. It is stored for the screens that will use it.

The fields

Emptying an optional field is a real answer and is saved as such.

Your display name is also what an application to an open call is filed under — it, or your full name, or failing both the email address on your judge record. See Applying to an open call.

Where you are

Country, State or territory and City replace the single Location box this card used to carry. The three of them are what the judges directory lets a festival narrow by — country first, then region, then city.

• Country is required and cannot be cleared. Choose Select a country again and pressing Save is refused with "Choose a country from the list."; the country you had saved is left exactly as it was.
• State or territory is a list, and only for the United States. Pick a country without one and the field disappears — and whatever state it held is cleared with it, so a move from Texas to Toronto never leaves "Texas" on your record. Pick United States again and it returns, empty. It is optional; Select a state is the blank answer.
• City is free text and genuinely optional. Write it the way people where you live write it; nothing checks it, and emptying it is a real answer that saves.
• Coordinators see the three of them as one line — city, then state, then the country's full name, skipping whatever you left out: "Austin, Texas, United States", "Seoul, South Korea", or just "Ghana".
• A festival searching the directory can type a country name and find you even if the country is all you gave.

This is the same answer as the About step, written in the same place. Change it here or on step 3 of the setup flow; both write the same profile and both require a country.

The three lists

Country, State or territory and Time zone open a list with a search box at the top rather than a plain dropdown:

1. Click the field. The list opens under it with the search box ready to type in.
2. Type part of what you want — gha for Ghana, wash for Washington, central or chicago for Central Time (Chicago, Dallas). Case does not matter.
3. Choose a row. The list closes and the field shows it; the card is now unsaved, like any other change.

If nothing matches, the list reads No match for "…". with a Clear search link; it is never simply empty. Escape clears what you typed, or closes the list once the box is empty; clicking anywhere else closes it too. Opening a list again always starts from the full list. On a phone, tap the search box to bring the keyboard up.

Directory listing tab

The first tab of Your account: whether festivals you do not already work for can find you, and which festivals may not invite you.

Directory listing

The first card decides whether festivals you have never worked with can find you at all.

Whether every festival on FilmScorecard can find you and invite you to a season.

One switch, not two. Being listed is being open to invitations — there is no separate "Open to invites" control, and no state where you are findable but cannot be invited. Off, and no festival you do not already judge for can find you or invite you.

None of this affects applying. Open calls is open to every judge with a finished profile, listed or not, and blocking a festival does not stop you applying to one of their calls.

Two things the card does not say:

• Invitations arrive by email and are also listed inside the app, on the Invitations tab of your inbox, which is where you accept, decline or block the festival — see Your invitations. The Invites and requests block on the Festivals tab is a different thing: a read-only record with no controls on it at all.
• A festival can only have one open invitation to you at a time, and that is exactly what it says: a festival whose invitation you declined can invite you to the same season again later.

Paid or Volunteer is a statement, not a price. You never name a figure anywhere on your profile — there is no amount box, and the card does not ask for one. What a coordinator sees on your directory card and in your profile panel is the word, Paid or Volunteer, beside your judge type. When they invite you they set the terms themselves, category by category — or invite you as a volunteer — and you accept or decline what they send. There is no counter-offer on an invitation — to ask for a different figure on one, reply to the invitation email and ask them to invite you again. Volunteer means you judge without pay; it is not a rate of zero, and a festival that reads it can still send you a paid invitation.

An open-call application is the other case, and the only negotiating surface in FilmScorecard. There you name a figure per category, and if the festival replies with different ones you can accept them or send back another set — see When the festival replies with different rates.

It is not used when you apply to an open call, either. The rates on an application are the figures you accept or type on that form, category by category, every time.

And it is not what you are paid. What a festival actually agreed with you is the per-category pair on the invitation you accepted, and what that has come to so far is on Earnings.

Both rows save the moment you change them — there is no button. The line at the foot of the card reads Saving… while the change goes through, then Saved just now; a refused change puts the control back and says why at the top of the card. Blocked festivals are a card of their own beneath this one, and they wait for the tab's Save bar — see Blocking a festival.

View public profile

View public profile — in the corner of the Directory listing card, and at the top right of Your profile — opens the same panel a coordinator sees in the judges directory, with an indigo strip across the top:

Preview. This is your profile as a coordinator sees it in the judge directory.

It shows your saved values, not your unsaved typing — press Save first. Its three tabs are Profile, Seasons and References, exactly as a coordinator gets them, and at the foot of it:

Your email, phone, capacity and coordinator note are never shown here.

Its header carries your location line — city, region and country, put together the way a coordinator reads it — so the preview is also the quickest way to check that the three fields read the way you meant.

Among the facts on its Profile tab is a cell headed FilmFreeway account, reading Yes or No, directly under Judge type. It is your answer to the tick box in What I judge, shown to a coordinator exactly as it is shown to you here. Nothing else about FilmFreeway is on the preview — not the handle you may have typed, and not whether any festival has turned FilmFreeway access on for you.

Two things the preview leaves out on purpose: a coordinator's private note about you (you are never shown one, and no coordinator can see another's), and the Invite to a season button, which is theirs to press.

The preview opens whether or not you are listed. It shows what a coordinator would see — deciding whether to list yourself is exactly when you want to look.

Blocking a festival

There are two places to block a festival and they do different amounts of work. This card is the quieter one. The other is the ⋯ menu on an invitation itself, which blocks the festival and closes every invitation from it you have not answered — see Blocking a festival from here. Both write to the same list.

The Blocked festivals card sits beneath Directory listing, with a count beside its title — None, or 2 blocked. Its one row, Festivals you've blocked, lists each festival you have blocked with the date you blocked it and an Unblock button. With none: "No festivals blocked." Under the list, Block a festival.

Block a festival opens a dialog with a search over every festival on FilmScorecard, minus the ones you have already blocked. Pick one and press Block festival.

Nothing is written until you press Save changes on the tab's Save bar. Blocking and unblocking are staged on the card — a festival you have just blocked shows no date until then — and Discard puts the list back as it was. Once saved, the line at the foot of the tab reads All changes saved. Last saved and the date of your newest block, or just All changes saved. once you have unblocked everything. See How saving works.

What a block does, exactly:

• That festival can no longer invite you to a season. Every route is covered: an invitation to your email address, an invitation from the judges directory, and re-inviting you to a season you previously declined or were removed from.
• The festival is never told. There is no notice, no mark on their screen and no way for them to ask. What they see is a neutral refusal that reads the same as a judge who simply left the directory.
• It does not hide you. Your profile stays in the directory exactly as before — the listing switch is what governs whether you can be found, and a blocked festival can still read your card. Blocking stops the invitation, not the reading.
• It does not touch a season you are already judging. You stay on the roster, you keep your work, and nothing about that festival's access to your profile changes.
• A block made here does not cancel an invitation you have already been sent. One already waiting on your Invitations tab stays answerable; this block only stops the next one. Block from the invitation itself if you want it closed as well — that route declines every unanswered invitation from that festival, across all its seasons.
• It does not stop you applying to them. A blocked festival's open calls are still on your board and you can still file an application against one — the block is about invitations coming the other way.

Unblocking takes effect immediately — that festival can invite you again as soon as you save. It also changes what you see: any invitation from them that was reading "Festival blocked" goes back to reading plain "Declined". Nothing about those invitations changed; the pill is drawn from this list, live.

The list is every festival on the platform, and nothing marks the ones you work for. Read the name carefully before you block it.

(Blocking a festival here is a different thing from blocking one person in your Messages — this one stops invitations from a festival; that one stops one staff member's conversation with you.)

What I judge

On Your profile, the What I judge card's pencil opens one card, five sections, one Save what you judge button. All of it is a preference, not a filter — the line at the top of the card says so:

Coordinators sort candidate judges by how well this matches a category. It is a preference, not a filter: a coordinator can still assign you work outside it.

That is now true of every section on the card, the FilmFreeway box included — see FilmFreeway account for what changed.

Judge type

First on the card: two cards, Creative judge ("Scores submissions on the creative scorecard.") and Technical reviewer ("Scores submissions on the technical scorecard."). Tick one or both; at least one is required, and saving with none gets:

Pick at least one judge type. A judge with no type cannot be invited to file anything.

It is the same pair step 1 of the setup flow asks. It is what the judges directory prints beside Paid or Volunteer on your card and in your profile panel, what its Judge type filter narrows by, and what a festival's invitation form starts from when they invite you from there — they can change it before they send. It does not decide your role on a season: that is on the invitation you accept, and it is the Role column of the Festivals tab once you have.

Formats

Two cards — Film and Screenplay, with the same descriptions the setup steps used. At least one is required, and saving with none gets:

Pick at least one format. A judge with no format cannot be assigned anything.

Your formats and languages are used one other place: they are what the open-call application form starts you off with on its Coverage step. Changing your answers there never changes them here.

Genres

The same fixed list of 29 genres every festival uses, with a search box, a monospace "6 of 29 picked" count, Clear, and a Select all 29 tick box that reads Select all 4 matching while a search is running.

A search narrows what you can see and nothing else. Selecting the matches, then clearing the search, leaves those picks alongside everything you had already chosen. A search matching nothing shows a block naming what you typed, the line "The genre list is fixed across every festival on FilmScorecard.", and Clear search.

Zero genres is allowed here, unlike the setup step that first asked you.

Languages

The same 12 languages, as pills, with Select all 12 and a count. Zero is allowed.

FilmFreeway account

The last section on the card opens with one line saying what the answer is for:

Festivals see this answer when they invite you. Each festival decides on your invitation whether submissions viewable only on FilmFreeway are offered to you.

Then a single tick box: I have a FilmFreeway account.

• Ticked, a field appears for your FilmFreeway profile or email (200 characters, optional), with the line "Optional, and stored for now: no screen shows it to a coordinator yet."
• Unticked, a note appears instead: "Submissions whose only screener is on FilmFreeway are not offered to you unless a festival turns FilmFreeway access on for you. A coordinator can still send you one." Unticking also clears the handle you had typed, on the server, so nothing stale is left behind.

This changed: the box no longer decides what you are given. It used to be the one answer on this tab that gated your queue — with it unticked, a submission whose only screener link was a FilmFreeway one was not offered to you, and ticking it brought those submissions back. That decision now belongs to each festival. On every season you judge, the festival holds a FilmFreeway access switch for you — set when they invite you, and changeable afterwards by their coordinators — and it is that switch, not your box, that decides whether FilmFreeway-only submissions reach you:

• With the festival's switch off — which is where every new place starts — a submission whose only screener is on FilmFreeway is not offered to you on that season. Not ranked last, not saved for later: it is out of your queue, out of your open count and out of the film you are shown next, and nothing on screen says a film was held back. Your total is simply smaller, the same way it is smaller when a festival scopes you to two categories.
• With the switch on, those submissions are offered to you like any other.
• Ticking or unticking this box changes neither. Tick it with the switch off and nothing arrives; untick it with the switch on and nothing leaves.
• A film you are already holding stays yours if a festival turns the switch off in the middle of a sitting — it is still on your judging home and still opens; score it, file it, skip it or hand it back exactly as normal. What you cannot do is pick it up again once you have let it go, until the switch is on again.
• A submission with no screener link at all is a different problem, and you are offered it whatever the switch says. Report the missing link rather than scoring blind — see Scoring a film.
• A coordinator can still hand you one you reported a problem with. The panel where they decide tells them the film's only screener is on FilmFreeway and that you have no FilmFreeway access on that season, and that it appears if they turn access on for you. The film waits in your queue and appears the moment they do. See A film came back to you.

What your answer does now is inform that decision. A festival inviting you reads it beside their switch as "Judge says: has a FilmFreeway account" or "Judge says: no FilmFreeway account", and its coordinators read the same line on your row of their roster afterwards; if you are listed in the directory, it is also the FilmFreeway account cell on your profile — see View public profile. It never sets their switch for you. Keep it accurate all the same: a festival that reads "no FilmFreeway account" has no reason to turn access on for you, and a festival that turns it on for a judge who cannot open the screener has put films in a queue that cannot be scored.

You are not shown the switch, anywhere — not on your judging home, not on the Festivals tab, not on an invitation. If a festival's FilmFreeway-only submissions are not reaching you and you think they should, ask that festival's coordinator to turn FilmFreeway access on for you; it takes effect on your next visit.

Your judging home reminds you while the box is unticked. An amber notice headed No FilmFreeway account on file reads "Festivals see this answer when they invite you, and decide whether submissions viewable only on FilmFreeway can reach you. Add yours so they can.", with two links: Add it in your account, which opens this tab, and Dismiss, which hides the notice on that browser for a year. Ticking the box removes it everywhere.

Availability

The Availability card

All four wait for the tab's Save bar — see How saving works.

Under the capacity box, a line: "You have 0 open assignments right now." That number is meant to be work you have claimed and not yet filed, but the films you take with Start scoring are not counted in it, so it is zero for everybody today — see What does not work yet.

Capacity and turnaround cap nothing. They are what a coordinator reads before assigning; no rule in FilmScorecard counts against either.

Your capacity does reach one form: it fills in the "films a week" box when you apply to an open call, but only if it is already between 1 and 20. A capacity above 20 leaves that box empty rather than being cut down to fit. See Applying to an open call.

None of these four is displayed to anybody yet, and the card says so: they are stored with your account, but no screen in FilmScorecard shows them, not the judges directory and not a season's judge panel. Say anything urgent in an email as well.

Pausing new assignments

The second card, Pause new assignments, is one row with an amber switch — Taking new assignments or Paused beside it — and the switch is the save: there is no button, it is not part of the Save bar, and it takes effect the moment you flip it.

Takes effect immediately at every festival. Assignments already open stay with you and keep their deadlines.

The row's sentence names who is told, whether the switch is on or off: "Coordinators at Riverside Shorts Festival and Northgate Documentary Prize see when you're paused, and are emailed once when you pause." With no active roster anywhere: "You're not on any festival's active roster, so pausing emails nobody."

While it is on:

• A second row appears — "Resume automatically on", a date box, with "Leave empty to stay paused until you resume." Changing the date saves immediately too.
• An amber banner sits at the top of every tab, headed New assignments paused, reading "Since Aug 12, 2026. Your 2 open assignments are unaffected.", with a Resume now button. Resume now is the same action as the switch.

What a pause actually does:

• No new submission is offered to you, at any festival. Your queue on your judging home empties.
• Work you have already started stays yours, keeps its deadline, and stays scorable.
• Coordinators at every festival you are active on are emailed once, naming the festivals they can see and how many open assignments you hold. They are told no action is needed.
• Your card in the judges directory reads "Paused, not taking new work", with an amber dot, and you are excluded from the directory's "Available now" filter.
• Festivals can still invite you, and you can still accept. A pause is about new work on seasons you already judge, not about being found.
• You can still apply to open calls, and a pause is not mentioned on an application. It is about the work you already have, not about the work you are asking for.
• It does not touch what you are owed. Your Earnings record — and your pay statement for a season you are paused on — is still there and still says the same thing. A pause is about new work, not about money already earned.
• A coordinator pausing your access to one season is a different thing, set by them and cleared by them. Both show as one Paused pill on the Festivals tab; resuming your account does not clear theirs.

Resuming — the switch, or Resume now — clears the pause and the resume date together. Nobody is emailed when you resume.

The automatic resume date

Nothing happens on that date; the pause simply stops counting. When the date arrives, the banner is gone, the switch is off, your queue is open and your directory card is green again — all on the next screen you open. There is no notice and nobody is told.

Two consequences worth knowing:

• Pausing again after an automatic resume is a new pause, dated today, and your coordinators are emailed again — they were never told about the resume.
• The date box starts empty when you pause again, rather than carrying the date that ended the last pause.

A date in the past is not refused: it simply means you are not paused.

Festivals

Two read-only tables and one thing you can do.

Each table runs edge to edge inside its card, under the card's title and sentence, with a line beneath it counting the rows. A long table scrolls inside its card with its heading row held at the top, and on a narrow screen it scrolls sideways with the Festival column pinned to the left.

Festivals you judge for

One row per season you hold a live place on — active seasons and seasons a coordinator has paused you on. Invitations you have not answered, and places that ended, are in the second table instead.

The status pill, in the order that decides it:

Under the table, a line counting the rows: "3 festivals, 2 seasons open. Sorted by festival name."

Empty: "No festival has added you to a season yet."

Nothing in this table says what a season pays or what you are owed — a closed season's row looks the same whether it paid you or not. That is on Earnings, one row up in the navigation. Nor does it say whether a season has turned FilmFreeway access on for you — see FilmFreeway account.

The row menu

The three-dot menu at the end of a row:

• Open this festival — your judging home for that festival.
• Ask to leave this festival, in amber, with the consequence under it: "Your 3 open assignments go back to the coordinator.", or "A coordinator confirms it." when you hold none.

A closed season offers no leave item, and neither does a row you have already asked to leave.

Asking to leave

Asking is not leaving. The dialog says so:

The coordinator is notified and confirms it. Until they do you stay on the season and keep your open assignments. Anything unscored is reassigned once they accept.

Press Send request and:

• The row's status becomes Leave requested and the leave item disappears from its menu. The row does not vanish — you are still on the season.
• You keep scoring. Nothing about your access changes until the coordinator acts.
• The coordinators who can reach that season are emailed, told how many open assignments you hold and that removing you from the season's Judges screen is how they confirm it.
• There is nothing more for you to do, and no way to cancel it from this screen. Ask the festival directly if you change your mind.

The dialog stays open if something goes wrong, with the reason inside it:

One thing to settle before you ask, if the season paid you: the coordinator confirms a leave request by removing you from the season, and removal takes your pay statement for it away with everything else — the season drops off your Earnings screen too. Print the statement first if you want your own copy of what you were owed — the festival keeps theirs either way.

Asking to leave is not the same as withdrawing an application. This one is for a season you are already on. An application you filed and want to take back is withdrawn from the call's own page — see Withdrawing an application.

Invites and requests

A read-only record, newest first: every invitation a festival sent you, and every application you filed against an open call.

Nothing here is a control. You cannot answer an invitation from this table — the Invitations tab of your inbox is where you do that, and it is the fuller record of the two: it carries what the invitation pays, who sent it and its deadline. You cannot withdraw an application from this table either; that lives on the call's own page, and on the application's.

Four things about the Your request rows:

• "Under review" covers being shortlisted too. Only a reply naming a different rate shows as Countered.
• Countered stays Countered after you answer it. This column reads the festival's own status for your application, and answering a counter does not move it — the row says a negotiation happened, not whose turn it is.
• The figures, and the buttons for answering them, are on the application itself — the call's address with /apply on the end, which is also what the festival's email links to. See When the festival replies with different rates.
• A withdrawn application leaves no row. Withdrawing deletes it, so it disappears from this table with everything else.

The rows arrive as soon as you apply. See Applying to an open call.

Under the table, a line counting the rows: "7 invites and requests, newest first."

Empty: "No invites or requests yet."

Notifications

One row per event — eight of them, in three groups — each with an Email switch and an In-app switch, then a row each for the two cadence selects. The line at the top names the address everything goes to.

There is no Save button: every switch and both selects save the moment you change them. Under the card a line reads Saving… while a change goes through, then All changes saved. Last saved and the date. A change that is refused flips back, with the reason at the top of the card.

Under them: Queue digest (Every morning at 8:00 AM / Weekly on Monday / Off) and Deadline reminders (1 day before / 3 days and 1 day before / 7, 3 and 1 day before).

Until you change anything on this tab, everything is on — both switches on every row — with a daily digest and 3-and-1 reminders, and the line under the card reads just All changes saved., with no date.

One row is locked, and four switches work

Invite to judge a season cannot be turned off for email. Its Email switch is on and cannot be moved, the row's own sentence reads "Cannot be turned off for email.", and the server puts it back on whatever a browser sends. Invitations, and the messages that settle one — an accepted application, a counter, a declined application, a withdrawn invitation — are how a festival reaches you about something you have to answer, so FilmScorecard does not let them be silenced.

Exactly four settings on this tab change anything today:

• The Email switch on "Message from a coordinator". Turn it off and a coordinator's direct message no longer reaches your email inbox.
• The In-app switch on "A scorecard was returned to you". Despite the row's name, what it controls today is the notice that lands in your inbox when a coordinator sends a film back to you after you reported a problem with it. Switched off, that notice is simply never created — and it does not arrive late when you switch it back on. The email about a returned film is separate and comes regardless. See A film came back to you. A scorecard the festival sends back to you for changes is not covered by it — that creates no inbox notice at all; it arrives by email and on your judging home's Returned list.
• The In-app switch on "New submission assigned to you". It controls the "Your categories changed" notice in your inbox when a festival changes which categories you judge and adds at least one.
• The In-app switch on "An assignment was withdrawn". The same notice, when a change only takes categories away.

Switching off either of those last two stops only the inbox notice. The email about your categories changing comes regardless; nothing on this tab turns it off.

Everything else — the other Email switches, the rest of the In-app switches (Message from a coordinator's included), and both selects — is stored and drives nothing. The inbox those In-app switches feed is live, but the returned-film notice and the categories notice are the only ones FilmScorecard writes today; there is still no queue digest and no deadline reminder in this release. Set them if you like; they are what those senders will read when they arrive.

Nothing here controls the Invitations tab. An invitation appears on it and counts towards your inbox badge whatever this tab says — there is no notification to switch off, because nothing is being sent to you.

No setting here has anything to say about open calls. Nothing emails you when a call is posted, and nothing emails you when you apply or withdraw — or when you answer a festival's counter. The one open-call email that does reach you is the festival's reply naming different rates, which is not on this tab either.

And nothing here has anything to say about your pay. No email and no inbox notice is sent when a festival approves your work, records a payment or voids one; your Earnings screen is a page you open, not a message that arrives. The one exception is an invoice you sent: you are emailed when the festival returns it or records a payment against it, whatever this tab says — see Sending an invoice.

Nor about FilmFreeway access. Nothing tells you when a festival turns it on or off for you; the films simply arrive, or stop arriving, on your next visit.

Signing out

Sign out is in the menu behind your name, top right, on the account screen and on your judging home. It confirms first, naming the address you are signing out of. That menu holds Your profile, Your account, Help and docs — which opens these guides in a new tab — and Sign out. Your projects joins them, under Your account, once you own a film or screenplay of your own on FilmScorecard — see Your projects.

The circle beside your name is always your initials, never your photo.

What does not work yet

Stated plainly so you are not left waiting:

• Sign-in and security, and payments. There is no email-change, password, two-factor, session or deactivation screen, and no payout account, tax details or fee record. An address like ?tab=security opens Directory listing. Paid or Volunteer, on the Directory listing tab, is the only thing on this screen that touches money — and it is a statement of how you judge, not an amount and not an account. The rates on an open-call application are separate figures, and no money moves through FilmScorecard for either. What a festival has actually recorded owing and paying you is on Earnings.
• Your open assignment count is zero for everybody, on the Availability card and in the Assigned column. The films you take with Start scoring are not counted in it, so it stays at zero however many you are holding.
• Most of the Notifications tab. Four switches do something — the coordinator-message email, and the In-app switches behind the returned-film notice and the categories notice — and the rest, both cadence selects included, is stored for later. See Notifications.
• Your note to coordinators and your accessibility needs are displayed nowhere. They are stored, and festivals you judge for are allowed to read them; no screen shows them. The same is true of your preferred turnaround, your weekly capacity and your phone number.
• Your FilmFreeway handle is shown to nobody. The yes-or-no answer is shown — as the FilmFreeway account cell on your directory profile, and to a festival's coordinators as "Judge says: …" beside their FilmFreeway access switch, in the invite dialog and on their roster — but the handle you typed under it is stored and displayed nowhere at all. Tell a coordinator directly if you want them to use it.
• Any view of which festivals have turned FilmFreeway access on for you. The switch is theirs and lives on their screens; yours show only its effect. See FilmFreeway account.
• Your photo is not shown to coordinators, including in the preview drawer and the directory, which draw initials.
• A street address, a postcode or anything nearer than a city. Country, region and city are the whole of where you are, and nothing measures distance between them.
• Cancelling a leave request. Ask the festival.
• Countering what an invitation offers you. Accept, decline and block are the three answers there are; see Your invitations. An open-call application is where figures are negotiated — see Applying to an open call.
• Answering a counter from this screen. The Invites and requests table reports that one arrived and nothing more; the answering is on the application itself.