Your pay statement

Your pay statement is a document, one per paid place you hold on a season: every approved scorecard you have been credited with there, what each one was worth, every payment that festival has written down against your name, and what is still due. It is the same document the festival's own staff read — printable, and built fresh every time it is opened.

FilmScorecard does not pay you. No money moves through the platform — no transfer and no payout account. Festivals pay their judges the way they always did, outside FilmScorecard, and record it here afterwards. Your statement is the festival's own record of that, shown to you as they see it — and when it shows money owed, you can send it to the festival as an invoice. See Sending an invoice.

The rates behind the figures are the ones your invitation named — see Your judging invitation and Your invitations, where every category's technical and creative figure is listed. If you joined through an open call, they are the ones your application settled. The screen that adds all your places together — and the way you reach each statement — is Earnings.

Finding it

View statement, on the Statements tab of Earnings, opens the statement for that season — one link per paid place you hold, whichever festival it belongs to. While you read one, the sidebar's Earnings row stays highlighted: the statement is part of that area.

Three things to know:

• A statement exists only for a paid place. A place you hold as a volunteer has nothing to owe, so it has no statement — its record is the Volunteer tab of Earnings. That is true whether or not the festival pays its other judges: what decides it is your own terms, not the season's. A judge who only ever volunteers has an Earnings screen and no statements on it.
• The statement's own address names the festival, and looks like /judge/<festival id>/pay. That is the link to keep, print from, or share with the festival if you need to point at something on it.
• The old /judge/pay address goes to Earnings now. It used to forward to your most recently accepted season's statement; today it lands on the Earnings screen, where every statement is one click away.

Signed out, you land on the log-in screen. With an unfinished judge profile you are sent to finish it first — see Setting up your judge profile. And if you have not agreed to the current Judge Code of Conduct, it is shown to you first — see The Judge Code of Conduct.

When a page is not found

Every refusal here is the same "Not found" page, deliberately — FilmScorecard does not tell you what does and does not exist behind an address you cannot open. You get it for:

• a festival you do not judge for, or where every place you hold is a volunteer one;
• a festival whose roster you have been removed from — removal ends your access to that season entirely, statement included. The festival keeps its own copy of your statement as the durable record;
• a ?season= in the address naming a season you have no paid place on — including a season you judge as a volunteer;
• a mistyped or half-copied address.

Being paused does not take it away. A festival that has paused you, or a season that has closed, still owes what it owes: your statement stays readable.

If you judge more than one paid season for one festival

A season picker appears above the statement when the festival you are looking at has more than one paid place you hold. It lists them most recently accepted first, and the season you pick is written into the address as ?season=… — so a link you copy, or a page you print, keeps showing the season it showed you, not whatever is newest next month. The View statement links on Earnings carry the same ?season= for the same reason.

Volunteer places are not in that picker, because they have no statement to pick. A festival you judge twice, once paid and once as a volunteer, shows only the paid one here — the other is on the Volunteer tab of Earnings.

Two different festivals is no longer awkward. The festival switcher along the top names the festival you are reading, as it does on your judging home — but a festival you pick from it opens that festival's judging home, not its statement. The way from one statement to another is the Statements tab of Earnings, which lists every paid place at every festival, each with its own link.

What the statement says

It is one document, top to bottom. Nothing on it is a button except the controls in the bar above it — the season picker, Send invoice and Download PDF.

There is no statement number and no issue date, and nothing is stored. The page is built fresh every time you open it, from the same records the festival reads. If a scorecard is approved an hour from now, reopening it shows the new figure — which is exactly why the As at line exists.

Approved work

One line per rate, not per film — five columns:

Category · Rate type · Rate · Cards · Amount

Feature Screenplay · Creative · $8.00 · 3 · $24.00

• Technical and creative work are always separate lines, never averaged into one blended figure.
• A scorecard with no category on record is listed by its type alone — "Technical scorecard" — and still counts in full.
• Your rate is the one the scorecard recorded on the day you filed it. A festival that re-prices a category afterwards does not move a line that is already here. What can change is the name: a category the festival renamed prints its new name against the old amount.
• No film titles in this table. It groups by money; the Scorecards page at the end names every film.
• With nothing approved yet, the table says so: "No approved scorecards yet this season."

The table scrolls sideways rather than restacking, at every window width: the heading row stays pinned to the top, the Category column stays pinned to the left, and the scroll region takes keyboard focus so the right-hand columns can be reached without a mouse.

The two amber notes

Above the table, and only when they apply:

Both notes are absent when the count is zero rather than reading "0".

Neither note is ever about volunteer work. Work you filed on a volunteer place is not on this statement at all, because that place has no statement — it is counted on the Volunteer tab of Earnings instead.

Payments

Newest first, one block each: the amount, the method (Bank transfer, Check, PayPal or Venmo, Cash), and underneath, the date the festival paid it, their reference for it when they recorded one, and "covers n scorecards" when the payment was logged against a particular set of your scorecards.

That last phrase is a note of intent, not arithmetic. What you are owed is always the approved total minus what has been paid, never worked out from which scorecards a payment named.

With none recorded, the section reads "Nothing paid yet this season."

A payment can disappear from the statement. If a festival voids one — logged against the wrong judge, entered twice — it is left off this document entirely rather than shown struck through, and the balance goes back up by that amount. The one place on your side that still shows it is the Payments tab of Earnings: the voided payment stays on that list, struck through, with the date it was voided — though never the reason. A balance that has grown since you last looked is worth checking there, and then worth a message.

The balance

Balance due is never a negative number. If a festival has paid you more than your approved work comes to — an advance, a rounded-up transfer, or an approved scorecard voided after it was paid for — the line reads $0.00 and a second line underneath says "$12.00 paid above the approved total." You are not being told you owe a festival money; FilmScorecard never says that anywhere.

A credit like that usually settles itself as more of your work is approved. On Earnings, the same place reads Overpaid, and the credit is footnoted on the Outstanding card without ever reducing what other festivals owe you.

The Scorecards page

After the footer comes a page headed Scorecards: every approved scorecard on this statement, one line each, oldest approval first.

Title · Format · Category · Scorecard · Rate · Approved

Solstice · Film · Feature Screenplay · Creative · $8.00 · Aug 12, 2026

• Format is Film or Screenplay; Scorecard is Creative, Technical or Press kit.
• An unpriced scorecard reads Unpriced where its rate would be, in amber, and adds nothing.
• The last row is the total, and it is always the Approved total in the balance box above.
• With nothing approved yet it reads "No approved scorecards yet."

The festival's copy prints the same lines.

Send invoice

Send invoice, beside Download PDF, sends this statement to the festival as a numbered invoice — frozen as it stands, with the festival's payment terms and a due date. It is greyed, with the reason beside it, when nothing is owed, when you already have an invoice open for this season, or when the festival is not taking invoices. The whole of it is on Sending an invoice.

Download PDF

Download PDF, at the right of the bar above the statement, opens your browser's own print dialogue. Choose Save as PDF as the destination and you get a file; choose a printer and you get paper. FilmScorecard builds no file itself and keeps no copy.

What prints is the document alone: the sidebar, the top bar, the season picker, Send invoice and the button itself are all left off, the approved-work table prints every line rather than the few that fit on screen, and the Scorecards page starts on a page of its own.

Who can see this

The sentence at the foot of the sidebar on this screen is the whole rule:

Your pay is visible to you and to this season's staff. No other judge can see what you are owed or what you have been paid.

• The festival's staff open exactly this document, from a season pay ledger that lists every judge on it. What you are reading is what they are reading — same lines, same totals, same balance.
• They hold more of the story than the statement shows, and you do not see that part. Their ledger also keeps the payments they voided and why, who recorded each payment, any receipt they attached and any note they wrote. None of that is on the statement, on either side of it.
• No other judge sees any of it. Not your rates, not your totals, not your scorecard count. You do not see theirs either — there is no season total, no average and no other name anywhere on your statement, and nothing that would tell you whether anybody else on that panel is paid at all.
• Nothing here is public, and the address will not open for anybody who is not you or that season's staff.

What this screen does not do

• Remind the festival. Send invoice asks for the money once; there is no reminder before or after the due date.
• Show a payout or bank account. None exists in FilmScorecard. How a festival pays you is between you and them — the Payment details box on an invoice is where you tell them.
• Cover more than one season at a time. Each statement is one festival, one season. The cross-festival view — figures, payments, and every statement in one list — is Earnings; the all-time totals live there, and there is still no export of them all.
• Exist at all for volunteer work. There is no zero-value statement on your side; the Volunteer tab of Earnings is the whole record.
• Say which payment was for which film. The Scorecards page lists every approved film, but a payment is recorded against your balance, never against a title.
• Let you change anything. Nothing on the page is editable, and neither the festival nor FilmScorecard is notified when you read it.
• Tell you when something changes. No email and no inbox notice is sent when your work is approved, a payment is recorded, or a payment is voided. The statement is a page you open, not a message that arrives. The exception is an invoice you sent: you are emailed when the festival returns it or records a payment against it.

If something looks wrong

Ask the festival — the footer says where: Messages, the third tab of your inbox, reaches the people who run that season by email. See Messaging festival staff.

Worth checking before you write:

• Filed is not approved. Work still waiting on a reviewer is in the amber note, not in the totals.
• Unpriced work is reported, never paid. If an approved scorecard shows as Unpriced, no rate was recorded for that category when you filed it. It is the festival's to explain.
• A season with no statement at all is a volunteer place, not a fault. Your work on it is counted on the Volunteer tab of Earnings, and the terms it was accepted on are on your invitation — or on the application you sent, if you joined through an open call.
• Your rates are on your invitation, category by category — see Your invitations. A statement line that does not match one of them is a real question worth asking.
• A balance that grew may be a voided payment. The statement leaves voided payments off entirely; the Payments tab of Earnings shows them struck through, with the date.
• A season you were removed from disappears entirely, statement and all. If you are leaving a paid season, print your statement before the coordinator removes you.

Related guides

• Earnings — every festival in one place: the figures, the Statements tab this document opens from, the Invoices tab, the Volunteer tab for the places that have no statement, and the payment list that still shows a voided payment.
• Sending an invoice — Send invoice, the festival's payment terms, and what happens to an invoice once it is sent.
• Your invitations — the offer you accepted, with every category's rate — or the line saying it carries none. What your scorecards recorded starts there.
• Your judging invitation — the email version of the same offer.
• Applying to an open call — the other place your terms can be settled, including choosing to volunteer.
• Messaging festival staff — how to reach the coordinator the statement's footer points you at.
• Scoring a film — filing a scorecard, which is the moment its rate is recorded.
• Your account — everything about you rather than about one festival's money.