Your projects

Your projects is a filmmaker's own workspace on FilmScorecard. Each film or screenplay you make is one project, with seven parts: its Overview, its Page (the public web page visitors see once you publish it), its Festivals, its Scorecards, its Messages and Stats, and its Details. This guide covers how you get here, the sidebar and its plan line, the top bar, switching and adding projects, the account menu, the Overview, the Page and its bar, Messages and Stats, Details, and the workspace on a phone.

A project is yours alone. What you put on your page reaches nobody until you publish the page, and nothing in your project reaches a festival unless you send it yourself. Each festival keeps the copy of your submission it received. See Sending something to a festival.

You do not need a project to enter a festival or read a scorecard. The button and access code in a festival's emails still open your submission page and your scorecard on their own. See Your submission page and Your scorecard.

Getting here

An account set up as a Creator lands here when it logs in. There are three ways to get one:

• register on the Creators page and wait for approval. See Requesting beta access;
• press Save to your account on a submission page or scorecard a festival sent you, and create the account on the way. This does not need beta approval. See Saving a submission to your account;
• press Keep it on the "Keep this scorecard with the rest of your work" bar on a scorecard a festival sent you. This does not need beta approval either. See Your scorecard.

The first time, a welcome screen comes first. While you own no project, and a festival has entries with the address you log in with on them, your projects open the welcome screen instead: it puts your film together from your newest entry, and nothing is saved until you press Open. See Your first project.

If you also run a festival or judge, your landing does not change. The filmmaker landing applies only to an account that belongs to no organization, has no access to any festival, holds no judge profile and is not FilmScorecard's own administrator. Everyone else logs in to the same screen as before and reaches their projects from a menu:

The row only appears once you own at least one project. Nothing is saved to your account by itself before then, even if you entered festivals with the address you log in with. To reach the welcome screen that makes your first project from those entries, go to the address /projects. See Your first project.

The address /projects opens the project you last opened in this browser, as long as it is still yours, and otherwise your first project, in A to Z order. Remembering the last one applies only to an account that is just a filmmaker; if you also run or judge festivals, it always opens your first project A to Z. With no projects yet, it opens the welcome screen, or the Add your first project block when there is nothing to welcome. Opening a projects address while signed out takes you to the log-in screen first, and you come back here once you are in.

The sidebar

Down the left of every project:

• The FilmScorecard mark, which opens the project's Overview. Beside it, a button folds the sidebar down to icons; press it again to bring the names back.

• The project: its small poster, its title, and Film or Screenplay. This is a label, not a button. To change project, use the project switcher.

• Seven items:

  • Overview: what the project needs from you and what has happened to it. See Overview.
  • Page: the project's public page, where you build and publish it. See Page.
  • Festivals: every festival entry saved to this project, as a table.
  • Scorecards: every scorecard the festivals have released for it. See The Scorecards tab.
  • Messages: what visitors send through your page's contact form. Part of Creator Pro. See Messages and Stats.
  • Stats: who your page reaches and where they came from. Part of Creator Pro. See Messages and Stats.
  • Details: the project's title, length, logline, synopsis, poster, trailer link, credits and the rest. See Details.

  Festivals and Scorecards are both in Your festival entries.

• A number beside an item counts what is in it: the To do items on Overview, the entries on Festivals, the scorecards on Scorecards. An item with nothing in it has no number.

• On a project with Pro, Messages carries an amber number: the messages still marked New. With none, there is no number.

• On a project without Pro, Messages and Stats carry an indigo Pro pill instead of a number.

• At the foot, the plan line: which plan the project is on, with Get Pro on the free plan. See The plan line.

• Under it: "A festival sees only the submission it received. Nothing else in this account is shared with it."

Moving between the seven items is instant, and each has an address of its own, so a bookmark opens the item you were on. With the sidebar folded down to icons, the numbers, the Pro pills and the plan line are hidden.

The top bar

Across the top of every project, to the right of the sidebar:

• On the left: the project switcher, a button showing the current project's small poster (when it has one), its title and a small arrow. See Switching projects.
• On the right:
  • The bell: what festivals are asking you for, festival news, entries that joined a project by themselves, and messages from your page's visitors. See The bell.
  • Your name, with Creator under it, and your initials in a circle. They open the account menu.

View as visitor and publishing are not in the top bar: they are on the project's Page.

In View as visitor, the sidebar and the top bar step aside, and a bar of its own, Draft preview with Back to editing, takes their place.

Switching projects

Press the project switcher to open your list of projects, headed YOUR PROJECTS.

• A search box at the top reads "Search 3 projects" and narrows the list by title as you type, ignoring capitals. × clears it, and so does the Escape key. With nothing matching, the list reads "No projects match" with a Clear search button.
• Every project you own is listed, A to Z by title, with its small poster and Film or Screenplay. Capitals are ignored when sorting. The project you are on is highlighted.
• An amber number on another project counts the items festivals are missing on that project right now. The bell's To do list has them; see Missing items.
• Add a project sits at the foot of the list. See Adding a project.

Choosing a project opens its Overview. Choosing the one you are on just closes the list.

Adding a project

1. Open the project switcher and choose Add a project, or press Add a project in the no-projects block.
2. Type the Title. It is required, and the box stops at 200 characters.
3. Choose the Format: Film or Screenplay. Film is chosen to begin with.
4. If you like, type the Length. You can leave it blank.
   • For a film, the runtime as minutes and seconds: the box shows mm:ss, and 12:47 is twelve minutes forty-seven seconds. Minutes can go past 59, so a feature is 104:30.
   • For a screenplay, the page count, a whole number from 1 to 10,000, with pages beside the box.
5. Choose Add project. The button reads Adding… while it works.

You land on the new project's Page, with a starter page made from what you typed, so you can start building it. Nothing is public until you publish. See Editing your page. The rest of the project's facts go on its Details.

The format cannot be changed afterwards. It decides whether Details asks for a runtime or a page count, and whether the project is labelled Film or Screenplay. There is no way to delete a project either, so if you choose the wrong format, the only fix is to add another project.

The page's address is made from the title now. Renaming the project later does not change it. You can choose a different address on the Page while the page is not published yet or is private; while it is public, the address is fixed. See Editing your page.

• A blank title is refused with "Enter a title." under the box. Nothing is created.
• A length that cannot be read is refused under its box with "Enter the runtime as minutes and seconds, like 12:47." for a film, or "Enter the page count as a whole number." for a screenplay. Nothing is created. Switching the format clears the message but keeps what you typed.
• "That did not save. Try again." in the dialog means the project could not be created. Nothing was added, so press Add project again.
• The dialog cannot be closed while it is adding. Cancel closes it the rest of the time.
• A project you add yourself is never removed by FilmScorecard. The one kind of project that can disappear without you doing anything is described in When a project goes away by itself.

With no projects yet

An account with no projects, and no festival entries waiting to be put together on the welcome screen, sees one block where a project would be:

Add your first project

Add a film or screenplay to keep its details and festival entries in one place.

and an Add a project button under it. The sidebar has no project and no items yet, and the top bar no project switcher; the bell and the account menu are there as usual.

The account menu

Your name and initials, on the right of the top bar, open a menu with your name and the address you log in with at the top, then:

An account that is only a filmmaker has just Sign out. There is no account screen for filmmakers yet, so your name and the address you log in with cannot be changed from here. If you need either changed, use the contact form.

Overview

A project opens on its Overview. At the top are the poster, the title with Edit details beside it, and a line with Film or Screenplay, the length (a runtime like 12:47, or "104 pages") and "name, director" from the first credit on Details whose role is Director or Co-director. Anything the project does not have is left out of that line. Edit details opens Details. Once a festival has announced a result for the film, a green pill names the best one, for example "Official Selection, Northlight 2026". "Award winner, festival year" outranks an Official Selection.

Under the header are five cards: To do, Festivals and Updates on the left, and Page and Up next beside them.

To do

What this project needs from you, with the count beside the heading:

• What a festival is asking for: "You're missing 2 items for festival that affect your score", with the items listed under it. Its button is:

  • Send to festival, when the project's Details already hold something the festival asked for. It sends everything they can answer in one go, and reads Sending… while it works;
  • otherwise Add and the item, such as Add Poster, which opens Details at that field;
  • or Open submission page, for an item only the submission page can take. It opens that festival's Submission details page, where the item is filled in.

  See Missing items.

• "Read your festival scorecard", for a scorecard the festival has released that you have not opened since, with the season and "Filed date." under it, and Open scorecard.

What festivals are asking for comes first, then the scorecards to read, newest first. With nothing to do, the card reads "Nothing to do. New items show here when a festival adds something." The bell's To do has the same items, for all your projects at once.

Festivals

One row per festival entry in this project, with the count of entries beside the heading. Each row shows the festival, the season and categories, the festival's submission number (like SUB-04213), the status pill, and a short note:

• once the festival has released your scorecard: "Scorecard 8.6 / 10" when it is unlocked, "Scorecard filed, 3 judges" when it is not, or "2 scorecards" for an entry with more than one;
• before that, the next announcement date still ahead, like "Results 7 Nov 2026" or "Awards 7 Nov 2026";
• otherwise "Scorecard not released yet".

With no entries the card reads "No festival entries yet". Its foot always reads "Entered with another address? Add the entry with the access code from the festival's email." with Add an entry. What the pills mean, adding an entry and the full list are in Your festival entries.

Updates

News about this project, newest first, one sentence each, with the day beside the first one of each day: a festival selecting the film or not, an award, a released scorecard, a message from a visitor to your page, and an entry that joined this project by itself:

Your festival season entry joined project.

Move beside that one puts the entry in another project, if it belongs somewhere else. Entries join by themselves once you own a project; see Entries that arrive later.

With nothing yet, the card reads "No updates yet." The bell has the same updates, for all your projects, and is where you open them, mark them seen and dismiss them. See The bell.

The Page card

• A pill with the page's state:

  The pill	It means
  Not published yet	The page has never been published. Its address shows visitors "page not found".
  Public	Anyone with the link can see the page.
  Private	The page has been published before but is not public now. Its address shows visitors "page not found".
  Taken down (red)	FilmScorecard has taken the page down. It is not public, and you cannot publish it until it is restored. This pill shows in place of any of the others.

• "N changes not published", in amber, while the page is public and your draft holds changes visitors do not see yet.

• The page's address, like filmscorecard.com/p/the-long-way-home, once you have opened the project's Page at least once.

• LAST 30 DAYS: Views, Video plays and Link clicks on your public page. Video plays count visitors pressing play on a Video block, and link clicks count visitors pressing a Link block's button. Your own visits while you are signed in are not counted, and neither are visits by people signed in as staff or judges at a festival the film was entered in, or by FilmScorecard's own administrators. These three figures are on every project, with or without Pro. See The public film page.

• Copy link, only while the page is public: it copies the page's address, and reads Copied for a moment.

• Open Page opens the project's Page.

Up next

Dates still ahead, soonest first, like "Sat 7 Nov 2026":

• "festival results" and "festival awards", on the days each festival announces them;
• the screenings in your page's Screenings blocks, with the venue, then the city and the time. They come from your draft, so screenings you have not published yet are listed too, and so are those in a hidden block. A screening with no date is not listed.

With nothing ahead, the card reads "Nothing scheduled."

Page

Page is where you build the project's public page, out of blocks, and publish it. There is no separate edit mode: the tab is the editor. Your edits save to a draft as you go, and visitors see nothing new until you publish. See Editing your page and The public film page.

The page bar

Across the top of the tab, one bar holds:

• Page, with Not published yet or Private beside it. Nothing is beside it while the page is public.
• The page's address, with Change beside it while the page is not public.
• Draft saved and the time of the last save.
• Discard draft, when your draft has changes. It takes the page back to what you last published, or to the starter page before the first publish.
• View as visitor, which shows your draft as a visitor would see it.
• ⋯, holding Make page private while the page is public.
• The publish button: Publish page while the page is not public, Publish N changes while it is public and your draft has changes, and Published, greyed out, when there is nothing new to publish.

When something on the page needs fixing first, the reason sits beside the publish button, such as "Fix colours to publish" or "Fix 2 fields to publish". When FilmScorecard has taken the page down, the bar says "This page was taken down. Contact support." and you cannot publish. Every button and message on the bar is in Editing your page.

Festivals and Scorecards

Festivals lists every festival entry saved to this project, and Scorecards every scorecard the festivals have released for them. Both are in Your festival entries.

Messages and Stats

Messages and Stats come with Creator Pro, a paid plan for one project.

• On a project with Pro, Messages lists what visitors send through your page's contact form, and Stats shows your page's views, visitors, link clicks, video plays and messages, and where visitors came from. See Messages and Stats.
• On a project without Pro, each tab shows one card saying what the tool does, with Get Pro and "$4.99 a month or $39.99 a year for this page". See Getting Pro.

Details

Details holds the facts about the project itself, in one form: its title, format (shown, not changeable), length, year, genre, country, language, logline, synopsis, poster, trailer link and credits. Change what you like and press Save changes; "Details saved." confirms it. Open it from the sidebar, or with Edit details beside the project's title on the Overview.

• Your page's Header takes its title, details line and poster from here, so a saved change shows on your page straight away, without publishing.
• What a festival asks for is sent from here. The bell's and the Overview's Add buttons open Details at the field the festival is missing. See Missing items.
• Saving Details never changes a festival's copy of your submission. A festival gets something from your project only when you send it. See Sending something to a festival.

Every field, the poster, the credits and every message a save can show are in Your project's details.

Links from before

Old links still land in the right place, in emails and bookmarks alike:

• A link to a project's old edit mode that named a field opens Details at that field; any other opens the project's Page. See Your project's details.
• A link to View as visitor opens View as visitor on the project's Page.
• The old Project details address, /projects/<id>/details, is now the Details tab itself.

On a phone or a narrow window

At 1024 pixels wide and below:

• The sidebar becomes a bar across the top, with the mark, the bell, a Menu button, and your name over Creator with your initials. Menu opens the project, its seven items and its plan line as a panel, and reads Close while it is open. With no project yet there is no Menu.
• The project switcher sits on its own bar under it.
• The Overview's Page and Up next cards drop under the other three.

At 640 pixels wide and below:

• Your name and Creator are dropped, and your initials alone open the account menu.
• Buttons grow to a comfortable size for a finger on a touch screen.
• On the Page's bar, View as visitor and Discard draft move into the ⋯ menu. See Editing your page.

What is not here yet

• No deleting a project, and no changing its format.
• No screen listing all your projects side by side. The project switcher is the list.
• No account screen for a filmmaker-only account. See The account menu.
• No emails about your projects, about a submission being saved to your account, or about a festival's request or news. The bell is the only notice. The emails your projects do send are a visitor's message through your page's contact form, which is part of Pro (see Messages from visitors), and the emails about a project's Pro plan (see The emails Pro sends).

Related guides

• Your first project: the welcome screen that puts your first project together from your festival entries.
• Your project's details: every field of a project, its poster and credits, saving them, and where they are used.
• Editing your page: building the page from blocks, its design, the draft and publishing.
• The public film page: who can see the page, its address and what visitors see.
• The bell: what festivals are asking for, sending it, festival news and visitors' messages.
• Your festival entries: Festivals and Scorecards, what each entry's pill and dates mean, adding an entry with its access code, and moving an entry to another project.
• Creator Pro: the paid plan for one project, the plan line, managing billing, and what happens when Pro ends.
• Messages and Stats: the two tabs Pro adds.
• Saving a submission to your account: how festival submissions get here, and Save to your account.
• Your submission page: the page each festival sends you, where anything a project cannot send is filled in.