From Submitter to Filmmaker: What Changes Once Your Film Is Approved

Anyone can register and submit a film. Once that first submission is approved, the account becomes a filmmaker account with access to filmmaker tools, such as submission status tracking, crew profile management for each film, and updating film details after the initial submission.

This staged approach keeps the tools built for active filmmakers out of the way of someone who simply registered to buy a ticket or vote in a public category. One registration, with tools that depend on your role, means nobody has to guess which kind of account to create.

A filmmaker whose later films are approved keeps building on the same profile and toolset, so a submission history across several festival years lives in one place.