Festival Report
2026 Film Festival Report; Executive Edition
The Festival Report 2026-27. One hundred nine festivals, each premiere rule quoted word for word, the Academy award each one qualifies for, and every deadline through June 2027.
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What you get...
Consolidated Information
The submission platforms tell you the deadline and the fee. They don't tell you that the festival you're about to pay forty dollars to will disqualify you because of a screening you did last spring. That rule lives in the festival's own rulebook, usually on page six, and most filmmakers find it after they've paid.
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This report reads the rulebooks for you. It sets out what each festival actually requires, quotes the rules that decide your premiere status in the festival's own words, and puts every date in one calendar you can sort.
Vital Information on each Festival
The method comes first. How premiere status works and how to protect it. How Academy qualification works through festivals. What a festival campaign really costs once the fees, the travel and the deliverables are added up. How to build a submission strategy that doesn't spend the first-run window on the wrong room.
Which Festival is right for you?
Then the festivals. All 109, grouped in four tiers, each with its own entry: where and when it runs, what it programs, its premiere rule quoted verbatim, the specific Academy awards it qualifies a film for, and the published fee where there is one. Where a festival has warned about something a filmmaker would otherwise miss, the entry flags it.
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