Zone Festival

Zone Festival, a Canadian product, helps film festivals and events of a similar kind run their programme. Festivals use it in Canada and the United States, and in Europe in France, Belgium, Norway and Spain, as well as in New Zealand, and it works in English and French with no limit on users.

What Zone Festival does

• Submissions and review: films are entered and assessed online by a screening committee, and a laid-out catalogue is produced on the web.
• Entry organisation: sorting submissions into groups, series and competitions, with automatic acceptance and refusal letters.
• Finance tracking: PayPal payments, fee records and oversight of contracts, plus artist details such as biographies, labels and agents.
• Event logistics: timetables for load-in and soundchecks shown in different versions for the public, staff and projectionists, and management of venue equipment.
• Accreditation and access control: permissions for guests and volunteers, personalised schedules, and transport and accommodation tracking.
• History and grant tracking: an archive of all data with export options, and tracking of grant and sponsor applications.

Key facts

• Based in: Canada