# Your judging home

> From FilmScorecard Help: https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-judging-home

Once a festival has you on a season, `/judge` is the screen you work from. It
shows **one film at a time** — the next thing for you to score, or the film you
already have in hand — with your festivals down the side and your totals across
the top.

This page covers what you land on, what every number means, and the two states
that appear when there is nothing in front of you. Scoring itself starts on
[Scoring a film](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/scoring-a-film.md). The rule that you hold one film until
you finish it is on [One film at a time](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/one-film-at-a-time.md). Skipping has
its own page: [Skipping a film](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/skipping-a-film.md), and what happens when a
festival fixes what you reported is on
[A film came back to you](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/a-film-came-back-to-you.md). A scorecard a festival
sends back to you for changes is listed at the top of this screen — see
[Scorecards sent back to you](#scorecards-sent-back-to-you). Announcements,
notices, the invitations festivals have sent you and your conversations with
festival staff live one row down, on [Your inbox](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-inbox.md). Work you do
not have yet — every festival on FilmScorecard that is hiring judges — is on
[Open calls](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/open-calls.md). What every festival owes you for the work you
have already filed — and your record of the work that carries no pay — is on
[Earnings](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/earnings.md). Everything about you
rather than about the work — your profile, your capacity, pausing, the
festivals you judge for — is on [Your account](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-account.md). If you want
to know why a particular film is or is not in front of you, see
[How the judging queue works](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/how-the-judging-queue-works.md). A festival
card that has gone grey is explained on
[When a festival is unavailable](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/when-a-festival-is-unavailable.md).

## Where you land

Opening `/judge` sends you straight to one festival — you never see a list to
pick from. The address it lands on is `/judge/` and a long identifier, which is
worth bookmarking if you judge for more than one festival.

Which one it picks:

1. **The festival you last did something in.** Scoring or skipping a film
   counts; opening the screen does not.
2. **Otherwise, the season you accepted most recently.**

Three things happen before that:

- **If you are not signed in**, you go to the log-in screen. See
  [Logging in](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/logging-in.md).
- **If your judge profile is unfinished**, you are sent to finish it and come
  back afterwards. See
  [Setting up your judge profile](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/setting-up-your-judge-profile.md).
- **If you have not agreed to the current Judge Code of Conduct**, you are
  asked to first. See [The Judge Code of Conduct](#the-judge-code-of-conduct).

**If no festival has you on a season as an active judge, you stay on `/judge`**
and get the card described in
[No festival has assigned you films yet](#no-festival-has-assigned-you-films-yet).

### The Judge Code of Conduct

**Every judge agrees to the Judge Code of Conduct**, once per version, across
every festival. You tick "I agree to the Judge Code of Conduct" when you accept
an invitation, apply to an open call or accept a festival's counter offer. **If
you were already judging before it existed — or FilmScorecard has since
published a new version — your next visit to any judging screen shows it
first**, in place of the screen you asked for:

1. The heading **Judge Code of Conduct**, and a box: "I agree to the Judge Code
   of Conduct". The name is a link that opens the document in a new tab, at
   `/code-of-conduct`.
2. Tick the box and press **Confirm**. Pressing Confirm without the box ticked
   reads "You need to agree to the Judge Code of Conduct to continue."
3. The screen you were going to appears, at the same address.

**Until you confirm, you cannot start or finish a film.** Anything you had
already typed on a film you hold is kept, and is there when you come back.
**Your account screen and applying to an open call are not held up** — the
application form carries its own box.

**You are asked once per version.** A small correction to the wording does not
ask you again; a new version does, and agreeing to an older version does not
count for a newer one.

## The frame around the screen

**The same frame is on every judging screen.** This one, Open calls, Inbox,
Earnings, Your account and your pay statement all sit inside it, with the
same rows, the same **Your festivals** list, the same switcher and the same
counts — and it stays in place while a screen inside it loads.

**Down the left** (a **Menu** button on a narrow window or a phone):

| Row | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| **Next submission** | The screen you are on. |
| **Open calls** | Every festival on FilmScorecard that is hiring judges for a round, whoever they are. The quiet grey number is the open calls you have not applied to; no number means none. See [Open calls](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/open-calls.md). |
| **Inbox** | Announcements and notices from your festivals, the invitations they have sent you, and your conversations with their staff. **The amber count is everything waiting on you: unread items, unread messages, and invitations you have not answered.** No count means nothing is. See [Your inbox](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-inbox.md). |
| **Earnings** | Your money and your work record across every festival you judge for: what is outstanding, what has been paid, your approved scorecards and their rates, one statement per **place you hold on paid terms**, the invoices you have sent, and a Volunteer tab for the places that carry no pay. **The row is there for any judge with a place on a season, paid or volunteer** — with no place anywhere it is absent rather than greyed. The quiet number beside it is your outstanding balance, folded from your paid places alone; no number means $0.00. See [Earnings](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/earnings.md). |
| **Profile** | Who you are and what you judge, read the way it shows and edited a section at a time. See [Your profile](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-account.md#your-profile). |
| **Account** | Your directory listing, your capacity, your festivals and your notifications. See [Your account](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-account.md). |
| **Your festivals** | One row per festival you judge, with its season year and an amber count of what is left in your queue there. **No badge means nothing is left.** A row opens this screen for that festival, from wherever you are. |
| The line at the bottom | "Your scores are visible to festival coordinators only, never to other judges." That is a statement of how the platform works, not a setting. **On the Earnings screens the line changes** to say who can see your money instead; Open calls says who can see your application, and Your account says its settings follow you everywhere. |
| **Help · Terms · Privacy · Contact** | Four small grey links under that line: these guides, the Terms of Use, the Privacy Policy, and the contact form for writing to FilmScorecard itself. On a narrow window they are at the foot of the **Menu**. See [Contacting us](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/contacting-us.md). |

**Along the top**: the festival switcher (your festival's name with a caret —
it opens the same list), the words **Judge portal**, and your name with
**Judge** underneath it. **The switcher is on every judging screen.** Here and
on a pay statement it names the festival you are looking at and highlights it
in the menu; on Open calls, Inbox, Earnings and Your account — screens that
belong to no festival — it reads **Your festivals** instead, with nothing in
the menu highlighted. Picking a festival from it opens this screen for that
festival, wherever you were. It is absent, along with the sidebar list, only
when no season has you on its roster.

Three things about that name block:

- **The word under your name is always "Judge"**, whatever roles the festival
  gave you. It is a label for the area, not your role on the panel.
- **The circle beside it is your initials, never your photo**, even if you
  uploaded one.
- **It is a menu**, and it holds **Your profile**, **Your account**, **Help and
  docs** and **Sign out**. **Help and docs** opens these guides in a new tab,
  so the film you are scoring stays where it was. Signing out confirms first,
  naming the address you are signing out of. Two more rows appear only for
  some people, both under Your account: **Your projects**, once you own a film
  or screenplay of your own on FilmScorecard — see
  [Your projects](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-projects.md) — and **Platform console**, for
  FilmScorecard's own platform administrator and nobody else.

### When the counts move

The numbers in the frame — the Inbox and Open calls counts, the Earnings
balance and each festival's amber count — are read when the frame is drawn,
and then:

- **They move the moment you do something.** Opening an unread item,
  archiving, applying to a call, filing a scorecard, skipping a film — each of
  those redraws the frame, so a count you have just changed is right straight
  away.
- **The Inbox count also moves on its own.** It is re-read about every 30
  seconds on every judging screen — this one, the Inbox and the rest alike — so
  a message a festival sends you shows up in it without a reload. Nothing is
  re-read while the browser tab is behind something else.
- **The others stay as they were while you move between screens.** Go from
  Open calls to Earnings and back without acting on anything and they show
  what they showed last.
- **Reloading the page re-reads all of them.**

## The heading and the three numbers

The heading is **Your judging**. Under it, in order:

- **The season year** — "2024 Season" — **only when every season you judge is
  from the same year.** Judge a 2024 season and a 2025 season and the year is
  left off rather than picking one.
- **A monospace line: "4 scored, 22 left, 1 upcoming".** These span **every
  season you judge**, not the festival you are looking at — except a festival
  that is unavailable, which counts for nothing here. The cards underneath are
  the per-festival breakdown.
- **A pace pill**, sometimes.

| The pill says | When |
| --- | --- |
| **"Your queues are clear"** | Nothing is left anywhere, and nothing is upcoming. |
| **"About 3 films a day to finish on time"** | At least one of your seasons has films left and a closing date still in the future. The figure is the tightest of those seasons, rounded up. |
| *nothing at all* | You have films left but no season has a closing date in the future — there is no deadline to pace against, so nothing is invented. **Or nothing is left but films are still upcoming**, so your queues are not called clear. |

**"Upcoming" means films that exist but have not been released to you yet.**
Before a season's judging opens — the festival has not opened it yet, or its
opening date is still ahead — that is every film waiting for you there. Once
judging opens, it is the films
[waiting for their technical review](#films-waiting-for-their-technical-review):
films whose creative scorecard is yours to take, held back until the festival
approves the film's technical review. With neither, every mention of upcoming
disappears from the screen rather than showing a zero. Upcoming films join the
"of N" total on the festival card below only when they arrive.

**A film you are holding is in none of these three numbers.** It is not
"scored" yet and it is not "left in your queue", because you already have it.
It is counted in the "of N" total on the festival card below.

**Nothing in these numbers is about money.** Work on a place that pays and work
on one that does not are counted the same way here — the difference shows up
only on [Earnings](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/earnings.md).

## Scorecards sent back to you

**A festival can send a scorecard you filed back to you**, with a note, when it
wants something changed before it approves it. When it does, an amber card
headed **Returned** appears under the three numbers, above your festival
cards, listing each one:

> **Solstice**
>
> Returned — Drama Film · *the festival's note, as they wrote it*
>
> **Make changes**

The oldest one sent back comes first.

1. Press **Make changes**. The film's scoring screen opens with your scorecard
   as you filed it, and the festival's note above it under **Returned**.
2. Change what the note asks for. Everything saves as you go, the same as any
   card — see [Autosave, and the dot](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/scoring-a-film.md#autosave-and-the-dot).
3. File it again with the same button you used the first time. It goes back to
   the festival for approval, and leaves this list.

What to know about it:

- **It never stands in the way of new work.** It is not a film you are holding:
  the **Next submission** card below is unchanged, and you can take and score
  new films before or after you deal with it. There is no 48-hour clock on it.
- **Your pay for it does not change.** It stays at the rate it recorded when you
  first filed it. While it is back with you it is not approved, so it is not
  on your statement yet — it joins it once the festival approves it.
- **You are emailed when it happens**, with the same note — "A scorecard for
  *the festival* was sent back to you". The festival can remind you with a
  second email. Nothing names who on their staff sent it.
- **An award recommendation the festival added to your scorecard stays
  theirs.** You can change your own picks, but not one marked **Added by
  coordinator** or **Changed by coordinator**.

**This is not a film coming back.** A film you *skipped* because it would not
play, handed back after the festival fixed it, is a different thing — see
[A film came back to you](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/a-film-came-back-to-you.md).

## Your festivals

One card per festival you judge, in alphabetical order. **Clicking a card
switches the screen to that festival**; the current one carries a faint indigo
fill.

Each card carries the festival's name, its season year, and:

**A date line**, which only appears when the season has a closing date set:

| The line | What it means |
| --- | --- |
| **"Judging opens May 3"** | The opening date is still in the future. Nothing is in your queue there yet. |
| **"Judging closes May 24"** | Judging is running. |
| **"Judging closed Apr 24"** | The closing date has passed. Your films are still there — see [After the deadline](#after-the-deadline). |
| *no line* | The festival has not set a closing date — or its opening date has passed but the festival has not opened judging yet, so there is no date worth printing. Nothing is wrong with your account either way. |

**A pill beside it:**

- **"12 days left"** while judging is running.
- **"3 past due"** in amber once the closing date has passed, counting the
  films still in *your* queue. It disappears when you have none left.
- **Nothing** before judging opens — including while you wait for a festival
  to open judging after its date — or when no closing date is set.

**Then the progress bar and two lines:**

- **"4 of 28 scored"** — the bar and the line say the same thing. The bar turns
  green at 100%.
- **"22 left in your queue, 0 upcoming"**.

Three things about those numbers that surprise people:

- **The total shrinks as other people work.** "of 28" is your own workload —
  what you have dealt with plus what is still open to you — and films leave
  your queue once enough scorecards are in, or under way, on them. Watching 28
  become 26 is the system working, not a fault. [How the judging queue
  works](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/how-the-judging-queue-works.md) explains the rule.
- **A film you skipped is counted in the total but never in "scored"**, so once
  you have skipped something the bar stops just short of full. That is correct:
  you dealt with the film, you did not score it. **A film a coordinator hands
  back to you stops counting as skipped** and returns to "left in your queue",
  because it turned out to be work after all.
- **The film you are holding is not in "left in your queue" either.** So a
  screen showing you a film with "22 left" is showing you a 23rd. It moves into
  "scored" when you file it.

**A festival that is unavailable is a grey card** with its name, its season
year and the line "This festival is unavailable." — no date, no pill, no
progress, and it cannot be clicked. See
[A festival that is unavailable](#a-festival-that-is-unavailable).

## The film in front of you

The card headed **Next submission** is the whole of your work. There is one
film on it — either the next one chosen for you, or the one you already have in
hand — and no way to browse past it or pick a different one. How the next one
is chosen is on
[Which film comes next](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/how-the-judging-queue-works.md#which-film-comes-next).

The monospace line in its top corner — **"6 of 28, 22 left in your queue"** —
is your position. **The first number counts everything you have dealt with,
skips included**, plus this one; a film that has come back to you steps out of
it again.

| On the card | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| The poster | The film's poster, on the left, when the festival or the filmmaker has uploaded one. **A film without one has no image at all**, and the details take the whole card. On a phone the poster sits above the title. |
| The title | The film's own title. |
| **"PCFF24-142 · 14 min · Film"** | The festival's tracking number, the length, and whether it is a film or a screenplay. Any part with nothing behind it is left out. |
| **In progress** | An indigo pill, on a film you have already started. See [The film you already have](#the-film-you-already-have). |
| **Returned** | An amber pill, on a film a coordinator has sent back to you, with a note block underneath. See [A film sent back to you](#a-film-sent-back-to-you). |
| **Past due** | An amber pill once the season's closing date has passed, with "Still open to you." beside it. |
| **Due** | The season's closing date. Absent when the festival has not set one. |
| **Runtime** | "14 min" for a film. **A screenplay's page count also appears under "Runtime"** — read it as "length". |
| **Category** | Which of the season's categories this film competes in, narrowed to the categories you were given. Several read as "Drama Film + 2 more". |
| **Scorecard** | The scorecard your roles put you on for that category, and how many questions it has — "Drama Film, 10 criteria". Several read as "+ N more". |

Under the card: **"The next film appears here once you submit this score."** —
followed by "3 more to come." while films are
[waiting for their technical review](#films-waiting-for-their-technical-review).

**There is no way to watch or read the film from this card.** The screener
link, the password and the film's full record are on the scoring screen, one
press away.

### Start scoring

The blue **Start scoring** button takes the film and opens
[the scoring screen](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/scoring-a-film.md). **It is not a link.** Pressing it
claims every card that is open to you on that film — holding them against every
other judge for 48 hours — and only then moves you on. While it works it reads
"Opening…" and cannot be pressed twice.

Two consequences worth knowing before you press it:

- **This screen then shows that same film**, with an **In progress** pill and a
  **Continue scoring** button, and offers you nothing else until you finish it
  or hand it back. See [One film at a time](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/one-film-at-a-time.md).
- **Pressing it can land you right back here**, with a different film in front
  of you. That means the film filled up — or was withdrawn, or left your scope
  — between this screen loading and your press. Nothing was taken, and an
  amber line above the card says so: **"That film is no longer available.
  Here's your next one."**, or just the first sentence, above the empty state,
  when there is no other film for you. It shows once, and **Dismiss** clears
  it. See
  [If the film is gone when you press Start scoring](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/how-the-judging-queue-works.md#if-the-film-is-gone-when-you-press-start-scoring).

### The film you already have

Once you are holding a film, the card changes in three ways and nothing else
does:

- The film shown is **the one you started**, not a new one.
- An indigo **In progress** pill sits under the tracking line.
- The blue button reads **Continue scoring** instead of Start scoring.

**Continue scoring puts you back in the same sitting**, with everything you had
already typed, and gives you a fresh 48 hours. **Nothing new is offered beside
it** — that is the point, and it holds even when a coordinator has just sent a
film back to you: that film is next, not now.

**Skip this film works on the film you are holding**, and it is the other way
out. It releases the cards you were holding, records the skip, and offers you a
new film. **A card you have already filed on it is withdrawn too**, whatever
your reason, and the dialog says so: "Anything you have already filed on this
film will be withdrawn." See
[Skipping a film](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/skipping-a-film.md#if-you-have-already-started-the-film).

You can also hand the film back from inside it, which additionally works in a
season where the festival switched discretionary skipping off — and likewise
withdraws a card you have already filed. See
[Leaving a film you started](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/leaving-a-film-you-started.md).

**The address of a scoring screen only works while you hold a card on that
film** — or have one filed there, including one sent back to you. A film you
skipped or declined, a hold that lapsed, a film from another festival — all of
them send you back to your judging home rather than showing an error. A
mistyped address gives a "page not found".

### A film sent back to you

If you left a film because the *film* was broken — **Screener will not play**,
**Other**, or **Skip: technical issue** on the scoring screen — a coordinator
can fix what you described and hand it back. When they do, that film is the
next one this card shows you, ahead of everything else in the season, and it
carries:

- an amber **Returned** pill under the tracking line, and
- an amber block: **"This film is back with you"**, dated `Sent back Aug 15`,
  the line "A coordinator looked at what you reported and sent it back.", and
  then **their own note about what changed**.

Read the note before you press **Start scoring** — it usually names the exact
fix. **No staff name appears on it**, and none can. You are also emailed when
it happens, and a notice lands in [your inbox](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-inbox.md). The whole of
it is on [A film came back to you](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/a-film-came-back-to-you.md).

## After the deadline

**The closing date does not eject anything.** Once it passes:

- The films left in your queue **stay there and stay scorable**.
- The film card carries an amber **Past due** pill and the words **"Still open
  to you."**
- The festival card's pill turns amber and counts them: **"3 past due"**.

Nobody has to extend anything for that to be true, and there is no "the
coordinator has extended your deadline" note anywhere — there is no extension
mechanism. If you are past a festival's date, tell them; the platform will not
stop you finishing.

## Nothing to score right now

When the festival is real but your queue is empty, the card reads one of five
ways, each with a monospace count underneath — **"4 of 27 scored, 1
skipped"**, the skipped half only when you skipped something, or **"12
upcoming"** while nothing has been released to you yet.

| The heading and explanation | What it means |
| --- | --- |
| **Nothing to score right now** — "You have finished everything assigned to you at *the festival*. The coordinator will message you if more arrives." | Nothing is left and nothing is waiting. |
| **Nothing to score right now** — "3 films are waiting for their technical review and will appear here once approved." | Judging is open and nothing is left for you now, but films are on their way. See [Films waiting for their technical review](#films-waiting-for-their-technical-review). |
| **Judging opens May 3** — "Judging at *the festival* opens May 3. Your 12 films arrive here then." | Films are waiting for you, and the season's judging opening date is still ahead. |
| **Judging is not scheduled yet** — "*The festival* has not set a judging date yet. Your 12 films arrive here once it does." | Films are waiting for you, but the season has no judging opening date. |
| **Judging hasn't opened yet** — "*The festival* hasn't opened judging yet. Your 12 films arrive here once it does." | The season's opening date has passed, but the festival has not opened judging. No date is printed, because the date is no longer what you are waiting for. With nothing in your scope yet, the explanation stops after its first sentence. |

Three honest footnotes:

- **"The coordinator will message you" means email, or the Messages tab of
  your [inbox](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-inbox.md).** Two things also arrive by themselves: a film
  sent back to you after you reported a problem with it, which comes with an
  email and an inbox notice, and **a change to the categories you judge**,
  which comes with an email and an inbox line naming them — see
  [Your inbox](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-inbox.md#your-categories-changed).
- **What releases upcoming films before judging opens is two things
  together**: the festival opening judging on the season, and the season's
  opening date arriving. Whichever comes second is the moment your films
  appear — nothing more is asked of you, and nothing is sent to tell you; open
  this screen and they are here.
- **If you paused new assignments, this is also the card you get**, at every
  festival, and it does not mention the pause. The amber banner on
  [your account](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-account.md#pausing-new-assignments) is where a pause is
  named; **Resume now** on that banner puts your queue back — including any
  film that was sent back to you while you were away.

**A film you are holding is never this card.** If you left a scorecard
half-finished, that film is what the Next submission card is showing you, with
**Continue scoring** on it — this empty state only appears when your hands are
genuinely empty.

### Films waiting for their technical review

**Unless the festival has switched it off, a film's creative scorecard waits
for its technical review.** In a category that has a technical checklist,
nobody is offered the film's creative card until its technical review has been
filed and the festival has approved it. A category with no technical checklist
is never held back.

While films are waiting for you:

- **They count as upcoming** — in the line under **Your judging**, on the
  festival card ("0 left in your queue, 3 upcoming") and under the Next
  submission card ("3 more to come.").
- **With nothing else left, the card says how many**: "3 films are waiting for
  their technical review and will appear here once approved." — or "1 film is
  waiting for its technical review…" when there is one. It never says which
  films, or anything about who is reviewing them.
- **They arrive by themselves.** Once a film's technical review is approved, it
  is in your queue. While this card is showing, the screen checks again each
  time you come back to its browser tab, so a film approved while you were
  elsewhere is in front of you when you return. Nothing is emailed.
- **The pace pill never says your queues are clear** while any are waiting.

**The wait only decides which films you are newly offered.** A film you are
already holding stays yours to file, a scorecard sent back to you for changes
can be filed again, and a film a coordinator hands back to you after you
reported a problem is offered to you straight away.

**If you also do technical reviews**, you may be handed a film's technical card
first and its creative card later — see
[When the creative card waits for the technical review](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/scoring-a-film.md#when-the-creative-card-waits-for-the-technical-review).

## A festival that is unavailable

When a festival you judge for is unavailable on FilmScorecard, opening it shows
a grey card in place of the Next submission card:

> This festival is unavailable.

There is nothing on it to press — no **Start scoring**, **Continue scoring** or
**Skip this film** — and nothing in your queue there until the festival is
available again, when everything comes back by itself. A link to one of its
scoring screens brings you here too. If it is the festival `/judge` opens for
you, pick another from the switcher.

**This screen does not say why**, and neither does anything else in
FilmScorecard. What happens to that festival's open calls, invitations and
conversations in the meantime is on
[When a festival is unavailable](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/when-a-festival-is-unavailable.md).

## No festival has assigned you films yet

If no festival has you on a season as an **active** judge, `/judge` shows one
card instead of a queue:

> **No festival has assigned you films yet**
>
> Festivals invite judges to a season and release a queue when their entry
> window closes. Once that happens, the film in front of you appears here and
> you score one at a time.
>
> `0 festivals, 0 films assigned`
>
> Invitations arrive by email. Check the inbox for the address you signed up
> with.

**That last line is out of date and the card still prints it.** Invitations do
still arrive by email, but they are also listed inside FilmScorecard, on the
**Invitations** tab of [your inbox](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-invitations.md) — which is where to
look first if you are expecting one, and where you accept it. Nothing on this
card points there yet.

The festival switcher and the sidebar's festival list are **absent** on this
screen — and on every other judging screen — not empty: there is nothing to
name. **The Open calls row is still there**, and it works: the board is the
whole platform's, not your festivals'. **So is Earnings**, as long as you hold
a place on any season — **paid or volunteer**. A festival that has only paused
you leaves it in place, because money you are owed outlives a pause, and your
record stays readable. See [Earnings](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/earnings.md).

**This is also the card you get when a festival has paused you, removed you, or
you have not accepted the invitation yet.** The screen does not distinguish
those cases, and it does not say "you are paused". 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 — Active, Paused, Leave requested or Season closed, and
[your Invitations tab](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-invitations.md) is where an offer you have not
answered is waiting. If you were expecting to be judging, ask the festival: only
they can change it. See [Your judging invitation](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-judging-invitation.md).

## On a phone

The screen is built to be worked on a phone.

- The sidebar becomes a bar across the top with a **Menu** button; the menu
  fills the screen and closes when you pick a festival.
- The festival cards and the film's two columns each stack into one.
- **Start scoring** goes full width, and every button is a comfortable size.
- The skip dialog scrolls with the page rather than trapping its own scrollbar,
  so its buttons are always reachable.

## What this screen does not have

Named plainly so you do not go looking:

- **No scoring.** Everything you record happens on
  [the scoring screen](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/scoring-a-film.md); this card only hands you the film.
- **No list of your films.** One at a time is the design. You cannot see the
  queue behind the current film, search it, or reorder it.
- **No second film while you are holding one.** No "up next" block and no way
  to start something else first.
- **No reason a film is next.** Nothing on the card says why this film was
  chosen for you, and nothing ever marks a film as one the festival wants
  finished first.
- **No record of what you have reported.** There is no list of the films you
  skipped, no status on any of them, and no way to ask a festival what they did
  about one. A film reappearing — with its notice in
  [your inbox](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-inbox.md) — is the only answer you get.
- **No invitations.** An offer you have not answered does not appear on this
  screen at all — it is on the **Invitations** tab of your inbox. See
  [Your invitations](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-invitations.md).
- **No money.** Nothing on this card says what a film is worth to you or what
  you are owed — **or whether the place you are working is a paid one at all**.
  That is one row down, on [Earnings](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/earnings.md), and the terms themselves
  are on [your invitation](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-invitations.md).
- **No Completed and no Scoring guidelines.** Those sidebar rows arrive with
  the features behind them; they are absent rather than greyed out. **Inbox**
  and all three of its tabs, **Open calls** and **Earnings**, once on this
  list, are live now — see [Your inbox](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-inbox.md),
  [Your invitations](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-invitations.md),
  [Messaging festival staff](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/messaging-festival-staff.md),
  [Open calls](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/open-calls.md) and [Earnings](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/earnings.md).
- **No other judge, anywhere.** You never see who else is judging, how many
  judges a film has, what anyone scored, or an average — **or what anybody else
  on your panel is being paid, or whether they are.** That is not a setting a
  festival can switch on. **No festival staff member is named either** — not
  even on a note that came with a film they sent back.
- **Nothing about your own settings.** Your profile, your availability, your
  festivals and your notifications are all one screen away, on
  [Your account](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-account.md).
- **Nothing that saves by itself.** While the screen loads, the **Your
  judging** heading, the festival cards and the Next submission card stand
  there as grey placeholder shapes, and the counts, dates and film fill in
  together. Two buttons write anything: **Start
  scoring** / **Continue scoring**, which takes or re-takes the film, and
  [skipping a film](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/skipping-a-film.md), behind its own dialog.

## Questions this screen cannot answer

Why a particular film reached you and when your deadline really is belong to the
festival that invited you.
[Write to them from your inbox's Messages tab](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/messaging-festival-staff.md),
or reply to whoever sent the invitation.

**What you are being paid you can now look up yourself**, in two places: the
invitation you accepted is still on
[your Invitations tab](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-invitations.md), with every category and both
figures — or the line saying it carries none — and what your filed work has
actually come to is on [Earnings](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/earnings.md) — every festival in one place,
with a printable [statement](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/your-pay.md) for each place you hold on paid
terms. **On a place you hold as a volunteer nothing anywhere puts a figure on a
scorecard, because there is none** — that work is counted, without money, on the
Earnings screen's Volunteer tab. **Whether a place is a volunteer one is
decided by your own invitation, not by the festival's season**, so a festival
that pays other judges can still have taken you on as a volunteer, and nothing
here or anywhere else tells you what anybody else agreed.

FilmScorecard support, through the **Contact** link at the foot of the left
navigation or of any log-in screen (see [Contacting us](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/contacting-us.md)),
can help with getting into your account and nothing else.