Your festival entries

The Festivals tab of a project in Your projects lists every festival entry in that project as a table: where each entry stands, its scorecard and the festival's next date. This guide covers the table, the entry panel, adding an entry with its access code, moving entries to another project, and the project's Scorecards tab.

The tab opens under the heading Festivals, with one line:

Entries for Project at festivals that judge on FilmScorecard. Status and dates come from each festival.

An entry arrives by itself when the festival has the address your account logs in with; see Saving a submission to your account. One you entered with a different address can be added with its access code; see Adding an entry with its access code.

No judge is ever named here. The tab shows how many judges filed a scorecard and, once a category is unlocked, its score, but never who the judges were. What they wrote is on your scorecard.

Reading the table

Each row is one entry, with these columns:

• Entry: the festival's name, which opens the entry panel, and under it the season and the entry's SUB- number: "Fall 2026, SUB-04213".
• Category: every category the entry competes in, in one pill.
• Status: see The status pill.
• Scorecard: see The Scorecard column.
• Next date: see Next date.
• ⋯, at the end of the row, with two choices: Open entry, which opens the entry panel, and Move to another project.

Left of the Entry column, each row shows its number. It turns into a checkbox when you point at the row, for choosing several entries at once; on a phone the checkbox is always there.

On a narrow screen the table scrolls sideways. The header row stays at the top, and the checkbox and Entry columns stay pinned on the left, so you always know which entry a row is.

The status pill

The pill waits for the announcement on purpose. A festival can decide its selections and its awards long before it announces them, and the pill does not tell you early. These are the same dates your page waits for before a festival's result appears in its Laurels block. See The two dates.

A nomination or a finalist place is not Award winner. Only a win or an honorable mention turns the pill. A nominee, finalist, semi-finalist or quarter-finalist keeps the pill it had, and the standing shows as a laurel in your page's Laurels block and in the bell.

The Scorecard column

Next date

The festival's next announcement still to come, as a date with a word under it:

• Results: the festival's Notification date, while it is still ahead.
• Awards: otherwise, the festival's Award winners announced date, while that is still ahead.

The dates are read in the festival's own time zone. When neither is still ahead, or the festival has set neither, the column reads None scheduled.

Finding an entry

Above the table sit a search field, the Status filter and Add an entry. Everything here works at once, on the entries already on screen.

• Search, "Search 3 entries", matches the festival's name, the season and the SUB- number. Esc or the ✕ in the field clears it.
• Status lists the five statuses in the order an entry moves through them — In consideration, Selected, Award winner, Not selected, Withdrawn — each with how many of your entries have it. Tick as many as you like; the list stays open while you pick. Select all ticks or clears all five, and Clear clears them. The button reads Any status, the one status you ticked, or "2 selected".
• Clear filters appears once a search or a status is set, and clears both.

Sorting. Choose a column's heading to sort by it, and choose it again to reverse. The table starts on Next date, soonest first. Entries with no next date go last whichever way it runs. Status sorts in the filter's order; the other columns sort A to Z.

The line under the table says how many entries are showing, what they are filtered by, and how they are sorted: "1 of 3 entries, status Selected, matching "north". Sorted by next date, soonest first."

When nothing matches, the table gives way to a line naming the search or the status, such as No entry matches "north", with "Clear the filters to see all 3 entries." and a Clear filters button.

The entry panel

Choose a festival's name, or ⋯ then Open entry, and the entry opens in a panel on the right. The table stays in view behind it, with the open entry's name underlined. ✕, Esc or a click outside the panel closes it.

At the top: Festival entry, the festival's name, and the season, categories and SUB- number. Then:

• The status pill and one line about it: "Official Selection, announced 3 Oct 2026." for a selected entry or an award winner; "Not selected, announced 3 Oct 2026."; "In consideration. Results 7 Nov 2026." while the festival's Notification date is still ahead, and plain "In consideration." otherwise; or "Withdrawn."
• Festival run: the entry's dates, oldest first — Entry received, Scorecard released, Notification date and Award winners announced — each one only when there is a date for it. A date still to come is marked Upcoming.
• What the festival holds: "The copy you sent on 3 Jul 2026: title, synopsis, credits and press kit. Changes to your project do not reach it." While the festival's submission page is still open for edits, the button Copy current details into this entry sits under it, with "Offered while judging is open. It closes when results are announced." Once the page has closed, it reads "Judging has closed, so this copy is final."
• Linked:
  • Scorecard, with the same words as the Scorecard column and, once the festival has released it, Open. That opens your scorecard straight away, with no access code, because you are signed in to the account the submission is saved to. See Your scorecard.
  • Submission page, with Open. It opens the overview of your submission to that festival, again with no code. Its tiles lead to Submission details, where you correct your entry while edits are open, Questions for judges, your scorecard and how the festival judges, and, unless the festival has no contact address, Contact the festival. Once edits close, the Submission details tile says so. See Your submission page.
• Move to another project, at the foot. See Moving an entry to another project.

If the entry has left this project in the meantime, the panel reads "This entry is no longer on the list." If it cannot be read at all, the panel closes and a message says "That entry could not be opened. Try again."

Copying your project's details into an entry

The festival judges the copy you sent when you entered. If you have improved your project's Details since — a better synopsis, a new poster, more credits — you can send those to the festival's copy while its submission page is open. Saving on Details never does this by itself. See Your project's details.

1. In the entry panel, choose Copy current details into this entry.
2. If your project and the festival's copy already agree, the button changes to This entry already matches your project, and nothing is sent.
3. Otherwise a dialog of the same name lists only the fields that would change. Each shows the festival's current value, under the festival's name, beside Your project's. A field the festival holds nothing for shows "—"; a poster shows "Poster on file" beside "Your project's poster".
4. Choose Copy into this entry. It reads Copying… while it works, then a message names what was sent: "Sent your synopsis and poster to Riverbend Film Festival".

What it copies, and what it does not:

• Up to eight fields: the same eight a festival can be sent from the bell, which take their values from your project's Details in the same way: your Logline is sent as the festival's Tagline, and the directors, writers, producers and cast come from your Credits. See The eight fields.
• The title and runtime are never copied. The dialog says so at its foot: "The festival keeps the title and runtime you entered with."
• A field your project has nothing in is left alone. Nothing on the festival's copy is ever emptied.
• It counts as one edit by you on the festival's record, just like a send from the bell.

If it cannot be done:

Adding an entry with its access code

An entry the festival holds under a different address does not arrive by itself. Add it with the access code from the festival's email:

1. Choose Add an entry, above the table or in the empty tab.
2. Type the code into Access code. Spaces and capitals do not matter.
3. Choose Add entry. It reads Adding… while it works.
4. The dialog closes, a message says "Entry added to this project.", and the entry appears in the table.

The entry joins the project you added it from, whatever its title. Move it afterwards if it belongs somewhere else.

If the entry cannot be added, a line under the field says why:

Moving an entry to another project

Entries arrive in projects by title. When one lands in the wrong project, or you want it on a project of its own, move it. There are four ways in:

• ⋯ on the entry's row, then Move to another project;
• Move to another project at the foot of the entry panel;
• several at once: tick their rows, and a bar appears at the foot of the screen with "2 selected", Clear selection and Move to another project. The checkbox in the header row ticks every entry showing. A new search or status filter clears what you ticked;
• Move on an entry's "joined" update in the bell.

Then:

1. A dialog headed Move to another project, with the festival's name under it (every festival's, when you are moving several), lists every other project you own, A to Z, and under them A new project from this submission. The first one is chosen to begin with.
2. Choose where it goes and press Move. It reads Moving… while it works.
3. The dialog closes and a message confirms it: "Moved to project title".

What a move does:

• The entry leaves this project and appears on the other one, with its status and dates. Its results leave the laurels on this project's page and appear on the other's.
• Several entries all go to the one place you chose. With A new project from this submission, they share one new project rather than getting one each.
• A new project from this submission makes a project from the festival's copy, filled in the way an entry's first project is. See Which project it joins. Its title is the submission's title (the first entry's, when you move several), so that is the name in the message.
• A move changes nothing at the festival. The festival's copy, its record and its judging are exactly as they were.
• The project you moved it out of can disappear. If FilmScorecard made that project from a festival submission, you have never saved a change on its Details tab, never changed anything on its Page and never published it, and this was its last entry, it is removed. You are taken to the entry's new project, on its Festivals tab. See When a project goes away by itself.

If the move cannot be made, the dialog stays open with "That did not move. Try again." When you were moving several, any that had already moved stay moved, and the table shows which. Cancel closes the dialog at any time except while a move is under way.

No festival entries yet

A project with no entries shows, in place of the table:

No festival entries yet

Entered with another address? Add the entry with the access code from the festival's email.

with an Add an entry button beside it. See Adding an entry with its access code.

Entries that arrive by themselves fill a project by title. A festival entry joins a project with the same title, the same kind of work and a similar length. If none matches, it gets a new project of its own, so a project you added under a different title stays empty until you move an entry into it or add one with its code. See Which project it joins.

The Scorecards tab

The project's Scorecards tab lists every scorecard the festivals have released for this project's entries, under the line "From the festivals you entered. Only you can see this list." There is one row per category, so an entry in two categories has two rows.

No judge is ever named, and no score is combined across categories or projects.

• Search, "Search 4 scorecards", matches the festival, the season, the category and the SUB- number. Esc or ✕ clears it. When nothing matches: No scorecard matches "north", "Clear the search to see all 4 scorecards." and a Clear search button.
• Sorting: the table starts on Filed, newest first. Choose Scorecard to sort by festival A to Z, Judges for the most judges first, and the same heading again to reverse. Score does not sort.
• The line under the table counts the rows and names the sort: "4 scorecards. Sorted by filed date, newest first."

Before any festival has released one, the tab reads No scorecards yet.

What a scorecard holds, and unlocking it, is in Your scorecard.

Related guides

• Saving a submission to your account: how entries arrive in a project by themselves.
• The bell: what festivals are asking for, sending it from your project, scorecards to read, and the news each festival announces.
• Your project's details: the Details tab, where the values Copy current details sends are kept.
• The public film page: where each entry's announced results appear for visitors.
• Your submission page: the page the entry panel's Submission page opens.
• Your scorecard: the page the entry panel's Scorecard and the Scorecards tab open.