Portugal, 2018

Porto/Post/Doc - Film & Media Festival

Porto/Post/Doc - Film & Media Festival

Pros: I first started to use Eventival about one year ago for Porto/Post/Doc Film & Media Festival. I have to say that now I don't know how I used to do my work without Eventival. The thing that I like the most is the costumer support; they make sure to answer all my questions in less than 24 hours.

Cons: The only thing that I have to point at this time for Eventival - but I am sure that the Eventival Team is working on it - is that it is not so friendly for submitting films.

Overall: Overall time saving...

Joana Mota

Production Coordinator

Portugal, 2018

Doclisboa

Doclisboa

"A great production tool that makes the exchange of information fluid and easy."

Pros: It is specially made for film festivals and reflects their production needs.
The costumer service is nice and friendly, helping you along the way.
The schedule and advance search tools are extremely practical and make the organization of information more systematic and accessible to all the production departments.
After you feed the system with the necessary information, it makes life in a big team so much easier: the exchange of info is fast and efficient; some automated features make erros less likely to happen; communication with guests is more fluid and allows guest services to save precious time.

Cons: Given its not so user friendly interface and sheer amount of functions, there is a fairly big learning curve. For users that are not so tech savvy it might a bit hard to grasp all its possibilities.
It is not mobile friendly, but they are working on it.

Joana Sousa

Programme Coordination

Turkey, 2018

International Istanbul Film Festival

International Istanbul Film Festival

"An indispensible tool for festival management."

Pros: With its many interconnected modules, Eventival is at once a database, an accommodation center, a communication hub, a CRM tool--a multi-faceted festival management. I use it mainly for submissions, and without it, it would have been impossibly burdensome.

Cons: Data entry could have been more streamlined.
It needs to be used by the whole team to take advantage of it fully.

Overall: It combines all festival management tools under one single application. It is a database, event management tool, CRM, cvommunication tool, data analyzer, very very useful for especially film festivals which at first it was designed for.

Yusuf Pinhas

Editor

Norway, 2017

Kosmorama Trondheim International Film Festival

Kosmorama Trondheim International Film Festival

"The system makes us more confident as a festival!"

Pros: Before training with the Eventival team we had very different experiences with the system from nothing to experts on the booking modules from our film department. Today we use many different systems for all the festival´s needs and was looking to merge, integrate and push all these into one system as much as possible. We can with certainty say that we had a revelation with what we actually can do with Eventival! The most important thing that came up in the training sessions was the fact the system makes us more confident as a festival. It teaches us something about how we can organize ourselves better to get more value out of our own data from the festival. It makes us asks some questions about us as festival and that it super- awesome, when that is how we grow stronger, merrier and bigger!

Cons: We would have wanted the system to be more mobile friendly and more mobile integrated but understand this is something Eventival is working on now.

Overall: We are in the process of trying it all out for the festival 2018

Catherine Kahn

Producer

Spain, 2017

Seville European Film Festival

Seville European Film Festival

"Every year we are taking much better advantage and nowadays it is an essential working tool."

Pros: It is a tool that allows to easily connect the work of the main departments of a festival. It leaves nothing to chance. In addition the improvements they do during the year are very useful and never fail to continue improving. Eventival team is fantastic. It is a pleasure to work with them and we love to improve all together.

Cons: At first it is not very intuitive, but once this step is solved with the kind help of the Eventival team, it becomes an essential tool for the organization of the event.

Mariona Viader

General Coordinator

"The best event management software ever!"

Pros: I think that the leadership of Eventival is the result of problem solving concept and an inspiring enthusiasm of its creators. I appreciate very much the sensational job of Eventival team on this event management software which we have been successfully using during the past years

Cons: Nothing

Overall: I think that the leadership of Eventival is the result of problem solving concept and an inspiring enthusiasm of its creators. I appreciate very much the sensational job of Eventival team on this event management software which we have been successfully using during the past years...

Pavel Smetana

Director

Czech Republic, 2016

Jazz World Photo

Jazz World Photo

We began to use Eventival when, besides organising the three-month music festival JAZZINEC, we created JAZZ WORLD PHOTO, an international photography competition. We were looking for something that would facilitate the registration and categorisation of the applicants and accepting photographs into the competition, but that would also be a communication tool facilitating independent deliberation of the jurors, production of the gala evening and, in the next stage, organisation of our travelling exhibitions. All this can now be done with ease and comfort. Most importantly, Eventival fulfilled a rather exceptional request we had: that none of the jurors and voting organisers would have access to the current data as long as the application period for the new round is running, This was necessary in order for the compete neutrality of the jurors. Only Eventival could do this for us.

Tomas Katschner

Founder

Mexico, 2016

Guadalajara International Film Festival

Guadalajara International Film Festival

Eventival is a highly customizable database that can solve specific needs of any film festival. Eventival can import profiles directly from Cinando, solving a lot of the regular data capture problems. Being a online database, its perfect to stay connected to the festival from wherever you are. Eventival's support team has tended most of our requirements. But the fact that you can customize the platform to your needs is the best feature.

Pedro Andres Barba

Guadalajara Film Market Producer

Czech Republic, 2016

Czech Film Center

Czech Film Center

Eventival helps us manage a huge amount of interconnected data, collect, sort and transform the information not only about film projects but also about events, companies and professionals. In addition, it is a great support for overall communication with film professionals in the Czech Republic and worldwide. It facilitates the research of specific data, the administration of reminders and many other things that institution like Czech Film Center has to deal with every day. And not to forget, thanks to the copying of data from the database to our website, it helps us build our new online presentation. 

Shortly: it is ready to take from our shoulders the often exhausting and time consuming back office work in large extent. So if we feed the beast properly with correct data, we can free our minds and use our potential and work experience for more delicate tasks.

Marketa Santrochova

Head of Czech Film Center

Italy, 2016

Giffoni Film Festival

Giffoni Film Festival

We have been using Eventival from the beginning (2008/2009), and have seen it grow year after year. The support team is fantastic and listen to the suggestions of all customers to try to improve the software. Today, we consider it indispensable for our festival, also for the jury form that they have created for us. Eventival simplified all our festival departments' life and it helps us to save a lot of time. It's a web based software and this is extremely useful because it allows us to work from different places being always connected.

Giovanni Brancacio

Head of Artistic Department and Programming

Italy, 2016

Trieste FilmFestival

Trieste FilmFestival

Since we started using Eventival, we must recognize that it simplified a lot all the festival departments' life. It helps us save a lot of time, organize all our data and it easily links it together. When we started using it last year, at the beginning it meant a big change for us, but the Eventival team offered a very useful support with all the questions / problems we had. After one year, they are still available all the time and it makes the difference. The fact that is web based is extremely useful because allow us to work from different places been always connected.

We are very happy to have Eventival as a partner: the festival organization without it would be much harder!

Cristina Sain

Festival President

Kazakhstan, 2016

Eurasia International Film Festival

Eurasia International Film Festival

Eventival makes work at such kind of events much easier and saves time! It's easy to use and if one faces any problems, the Eventival team is always ready to give you prompt assistance, so you feel safe. Eventival team is always open to a dialogue and it's very easy to deal with them. It's a great database platform which has many opportunities for the companies to work more efficient, but at the same time is quite easy in getting into it.

We hope to develop our co-operation with Eventival!

Elena Larionova

Program Director

Czech Republic, 2016

Pilsen 2015 - European Capital of Culture

Pilsen 2015 - European Capital of Culture

Eventival helps us efficiently organise guest services for dozens of annual events in various language mutations and for various target groups, and it is also enormously useful when organising the work of our team of six hundred volunteers. Like with every information system, the start may be a little rough, but it has paid off, and Eventival has become a companion to everyone on our team.

Jiří Suchánek

Director

Czech Republic, 2016

Freeridecamps

Freeridecamps

Successful collaboration + friendly environment + flexible approach + effort to satisfy our needs = perfect satisfaction.

Kristyna Kaletova

Co-owner

Czech Republic, 2016

Czech Film and Television Academy

Czech Film and Television Academy

After three years with Eventival, we cannot imagine working without it anymore.

Communication with the members of our Academy is nowadays done only through Eventival and its great mass-mailing tools, we use it also as a database for the whole history of the Czech Lion Awards, as well as for inviting guests to our Event. The Eventival team customised several features for us with great empathy and efficiency, and among other great features created a whole new voting module, which is a crucial tool for us as thanks to Eventival we were able to present the new online voting system which was accepted by the academics with surprisingly immediate enthusiasm and contentment. The whole platform is very logical and intuitive and links all sorts of information together, thus hugely economising our time and efforts. We are truly happy for having Eventival as our partner.

Tereza Rychnovska

Executive Director

Romania, 2015

Transilvania International Film Festival

Transilvania International Film Festival

Eventival is a must tool when organizing a film festival or any sort of event. Developed to cater for the needs of various departments within a film festival, the database has improved a lot in the last years thanks to the imput its creators receive from their partner festivals. Eventival has a user-friendly interface which invites you to explore and does not intimidate as databases usually do. We at TIFF cannot imagine what would mean to organize an event so complex as a film festival without a tool of this kind. 

If you are sick and tired of using Excel sheets, you should not hesitate to get Eventival. It offers a better structure of information, assures better communication within departments and saves so much time for everyone.

Cristian Hordila

Festival Manager

Switzerland, 2015

Visions du Réel

Visions du Réel

After four years of using Eventival, it has become an essential tool for almost all our departments, and the festival is running very smoothly with it.

Every year, we use it more extensively: this year, we have used the Personal Schedules much more professionalyl and systematically, in 2016 we plan to have a new website and integrate it with Eventival even better. We also always appreciate the availability and flexibility of the company's staff, and the constant willingness to develop the system further while listening to our needs and demands.

We really appreciate this collaboration.

Florian Pfingsttag

Coordinateur DOCM

Lithuania, 2015

Vilnius International Film Festival

Vilnius International Film Festival

Since 2010, when Vilnius IFF “Kino pavasaris” started collaborating with Eventival, our festival has increased in both size and quality. There is no doubt that this platform had and still has a significant role in such expansion. Such technology allows programmers, guest managers and other team members to submit, extract and customize their information in a more efficient way, therefore saving time for genuine film festival work: watching films, communicating with distributors, directors, organizers, etc.

Eventival puts us one step ahead in digital connection with the audience. It’s one system to connect them all.

Algirdas Ramaska

Executive Director

India, 2015

International Film Festival of Kerala

International Film Festival of Kerala

The service Eventival has been providing so far is perfect. We can never think of any other software now. The technical support is incredible.
 

Deepika Suseelan

Programme Manager

I'm so impressed with Eventival. Sleepless nights for the festival staff are over ... hopefully!

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Winner of the Cannes IFF Palme d'Or in 2010

Iceland, 2012

Reykjavik International Film Festival

Reykjavik International Film Festival

The system may seem complex at first, but it is very logical and intuitive. Small bugs are always dealt with immediately by the programmers who seem to never sleep: virtually every issue we have encountered was solved at once. Although Eventival is still in development, it has already become a 'full time member' of our festival team.

Ragnheiður Erlingsdóttir

Festival Coordinator

Estonia, 2012

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

Black Nights Film Festival was the first to start using Eventival to its full extent. Despite still being under development, Eventival already shows its great potential of being a widely functional 'brain' of a major event. The creators and always-available IT-support guys who have almost become part of our festival staff are a pleasure to work with.

Siim Rotha

Production Manager & Festival Programmer

Czech Republic, 2012

Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival

Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival

We have been using Eventival from the beginning of 2011 and the second edition with Eventival as the base for all our contacts, relations and films is ahead of us. As the software kept developing and improving, Eventival has increasingly become an indispensable part of our everyday work and a very helpful tool for the overall festival management strategy. We appreciate that Eventival team welcomes comments and suggestions from the festivals and that together we can work on tailor-made improvements. We also very much welcome the new modules and our guest service department is looking forward to start using them at this year’s festival. The team provides professional IT support and expertise and is always ready to accommodate specific needs and requirements of our festival.

We are therefore glad to have Eventival as our partner.

Katarina Holubcova

Executive Director

South Africa

Durban International Film Festival

Durban International Film Festival

Eventival is a dynamic system that will continue to grow and improve the processes of the Durban International Film Festival. Interactive and easy to use and with around the clock assistance when problems are encountered, Eventival has proved useful to DIFF.

Andrea Voges

DIFF Coordinator

Germany

Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival

Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival

We have been using Eventival to coordinate our film selection and to improve communication between the members of the selection committee. It has helped us to simplify and streamline our workflow a great deal and we are looking forward to using it for all other aspects of our festival organisation. What also impressed us is the fast responses we get from the technical support whenever we have a question or suggestion.

Andrea Kuhn

Festival Director

Norway

Kosmorama Trondheim International Film Festival

Kosmorama Trondheim International Film Festival

During my period as Festival Manager at the northernmost film festival in the world in Tromsø, Norway, from 1998-2004, I struggled to try to create the optimal system to organize and coordinate the film booking and print-coordination. When I, in 2004 was asked to share my experiences when they started to plan a film festival in my hometown, I wrote a memo called the ”Dream-tool”. It never became more than a dream, it was too expensive to develop. Now in 2011 I’m working as Head of Programme at Kosmorama IFF in my hometown Trondheim, Norway. This year the ”Dream-tool” just popped up.

The team at Eventival has created my ”dream-tool” and added a lot of new possibilities I hadn’t thought of. And at a very reasonable price. Eventival makes the best job in the world even better.

Ola Lund Renolen

Program Director

Czech Republic

Mezipatra Queer Film Festival

Mezipatra Queer Film Festival

Eventival dramatically helped us in managing festival workflow and administration as it offers tools for all aspects of festival organisation from the moment you start researching films up until you process data for the final report. Yes, Eventival helps in the most important thing: keeping the sh*t together. The greatest reward in choosing Eventival for all-in-one festival management system is that its creators have a detailed knowledge of how a festival is made happen. And they keep getting better at it as they listen to how you do things and what you need and use what you tell them to keep improving the thing.

Go get it!

Aleš Rumpel

Director