Sundance Institute Selects Withoutabox as
the Exclusive Sundance Film Festival Submission Service Through
2021; Since the Relationship Began in 2008, Withoutabox has
Processed More than 100,000 Submissions for the Sundance Film
Festival
Withoutabox Launches Enhanced Submission
Management Service for Film Festivals
Withoutabox (https://www.withoutabox.com), a service of IMDbPro
and the premier submission system for film festivals and
filmmakers, and Sundance Institute today announced that they have
renewed their long-standing exclusive agreement for an additional
three years (through 2021). This year marks the 10th anniversary
that Sundance Institute has exclusively relied on Withoutabox to
process submissions, during which more than 100,000 feature films,
short films, episodic content and Virtual Reality experiences have
been received through Withoutabox, including many breakout
independent films. Additionally, Withoutabox today announced the
launch of their enhanced film festival submission management
service (https://www.withoutabox.com/festival/submissionjudging),
which was designed based on direct customer input from many leading
festivals that rely on Withoutabox to process their submissions,
including the Sundance Film Festival and Toronto International Film
Festival.
Withoutabox has been the exclusive online submissions system for
the Sundance Film Festival since 2008, a successful arrangement
that has now been renewed for an additional three-year term. The
Sundance Film Festival, the centerpiece of the year-round public
programs for Sundance Institute, has introduced global audiences to
some of the most groundbreaking films of the past three decades,
including Mudbound, Call Me by Your Name, Manchester by the Sea,
Boyhood, Whiplash, Icarus, Last Men in Aleppo, Strong Island,
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Fruitvale Station. Since 2001,
Withoutabox has facilitated millions of submissions to the leading
film festivals in the world, and more than 200 of these titles went
on to receive an Academy Award nomination, with dozens eventually
winning an Oscar. In addition to the Sundance Film Festival, other
renowned film festivals that rely on Withoutabox to manage their
submissions include the Toronto International Film Festival,
Tribeca Film Festival and Los Angeles Film Festival. Withoutabox is
a service of IMDbPro, the essential resource for entertainment
industry professionals. Filmmakers submitting their work on
Withoutabox can easily create IMDb title pages and reach 250
million monthly users worldwide.
“We are proud of the legacy of discovery the Sundance Film
Festival has built over nearly 35 years, which has launched many of
the most significant independent films to critical acclaim and box
office success,” said Keri Putnam, Executive Director of Sundance
Institute. “We have chosen to extend our exclusive relationship
with IMDbPro’s Withoutabox through 2021 because they have proven to
be a supportive and responsive collaborator. Our submissions
continue to increase in both number and quality year after year,
helping us to discover and connect with a vibrant and diverse
community of independent storytellers all over the world.”
“The Withoutabox mission is to collaborate with the leading film
festivals in the world to provide unparalleled opportunities for
filmmakers to reach a worldwide audience,” said Col Needham, IMDb’s
founder and CEO. “We’re excited to build on our successful 10-year
collaboration with the Sundance Film Festival team, who share our
commitment to this mission. The significant enhancements to the
Withoutabox submission management service which we announced today,
many of which were guided by feedback from our esteemed colleagues
on the Sundance Institute team, will help festivals of all sizes
manage submissions even more efficiently, while also empowering
them to customize the service to meet their unique business
needs.”
About the Withoutabox Enhanced Submission Management
Service
The Withoutabox newly enhanced film festival submission
management service
(https://www.withoutabox.com/festival/submissionjudging) was
developed in close collaboration with many of the leading film
festivals that rely on Withoutabox to manage their submissions,
including the Sundance Film Festival and Toronto International Film
Festival, and introduces scaleable features that will serve
festivals of all sizes. New features that launched today include
the following: customizable tags to categorize and organize
submissions; significantly faster search and improved filtering to
refine results; the ability to take action on multiple submissions
quickly and easily; advanced judging forms allowing users to choose
from multiple templates and assign by role; option to export
judging data; a suite of commonly used message templates; and
easy-to-use, enhanced navigation. This new experience is available
to festivals opening for submissions after today.
“The new features IMDbPro’s Withoutabox has added to their
enhanced submission management service provide many smart and
easy-to-use solutions built specifically with film festivals in
mind, including assigning submissions to our programming team for
review, ratings entry that is quick and simple, and a tagging
system that gives us the flexibility to organize submissions in a
variety of ways,” said Adam Montgomery, Senior Manager of
Programming for the Sundance Film Festival. “These features save
critical time and allow us to really focus on discovering new
artists and projects to champion.”
“Our newly enhanced film festival submission management
experience makes it easy to process submissions in a customizable
manner so festival organizers can spend more time on what matters
the most, discovering talented new filmmakers and helping them
connect with audiences,” said Matt Kumin, Head of IMDbPro.
“IMDbPro’s Withoutabox brings together one of the industry’s
largest filmmaker communities and offers unique access to
high-quality film festivals of all sizes as well as the ability to
easily create IMDb title pages that reach hundreds of millions of
movie lovers on IMDb and key industry decision makers on
IMDbPro.”
Submissions for the 2019 Sundance Film Festival will open this
summer and be accepted exclusively via:
https://www.withoutabox.com/.
About Withoutabox
Withoutabox (https://www.withoutabox.com) is the premier
submission service for film festivals and filmmakers. Since 2001,
Withoutabox has enabled millions of festival submissions to the
leading film festivals in the world, and more than 200 of these
titles went on to receive an Academy Award nomination with dozens
eventually winning an Oscar. Withoutabox provides a powerful and
convenient solution for festivals seeking a service to manage their
film festival submissions. World-renowned film festivals that rely
on Withoutabox to exclusively manage their submissions include the
Sundance Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival.
Filmmakers using Withoutabox can easily submit their films to film
festivals around the word and can automatically create a title page
for their film on IMDb (the #1 movie website in the world),
reaching more than 250 million unique monthly visitors worldwide.
Withoutabox continues to evolve on behalf of its customers,
including recently introduced features such as: an enhanced
submission management and judging service for film festivals; promo
codes; a Fire TV Festival Judging App; HD online screeners; a
redesigned filmmaker experience; and support for Vimeo links. To
learn more about Withoutabox or to sign up, visit
https://www.withoutabox.com. Withoutabox is a service of IMDbPro
(http://www.imdbpro.com), the essential resource for entertainment
industry professionals, and is owned and operated by IMDb.com,
Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)
(http://www.amazon.com).
About IMDbPro
IMDbPro (http://www.imdbpro.com) is the essential resource for
entertainment industry professionals. This membership-based service
includes comprehensive information and tools that are designed to
help entertainment industry professionals achieve success
throughout all stages of their career. IMDbPro offers members the
following: detailed contact and representation information; tools
to manage and showcase their IMDb profile, including the ability to
select their primary images and the credits they are best “known
for”; exclusive STARmeter rankings that are determined by page
views on IMDb; a casting service to post breakdowns and apply to
roles; the IMDbPro app for iPhone and more. Additional IMDbPro
services include Withoutabox (http://www.withoutabox.com), the
premier submission system for film festivals and filmmakers, and
Box Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com), the leading online
source of box-office data. IMDbPro is a division of IMDb
(www.imdb.com), the #1 movie website in the world with a combined
web and mobile audience of more than 250 million unique monthly
visitors. Follow IMDbPro on Facebook
(https://www.facebook.com/imdbpro/), Instagram
(https://www.instagram.com/imdbpro/) and Twitter
(https://twitter.com/imdbpro).
About IMDb
IMDb is the world’s most popular and authoritative source for
movie, TV and celebrity content. The IMDb consumer site
(www.imdb.com) is the #1 movie website in the world with a combined
web and mobile audience of more than 250 million unique monthly
visitors. IMDb offers a searchable database of more than 250
million data items including more than 4 million movies, TV and
entertainment programs and more than 8 million cast and crew
members. Consumers rely on the information IMDb provides --
including local movie showtimes, ticketing, trailers, critic and
user reviews, personalized recommendations, photo galleries,
entertainment news, quotes, trivia, box-office data, editorial
feature sections and a universal Watchlist – when deciding what to
watch and where to watch it. IMDb’s portfolio of leading
entertainment apps (http://www.imdb.com/apps/) includes its popular
“Movies & TV” app for iPhone, iPad, Kindle Fire, Android
phones, Android tablets and its mobile-optimized website. To date,
there have been more than 150 million downloads of IMDb’s mobile
apps worldwide. IMDb's X-Ray for Movies & TV Shows
(www.imdb.com/x-ray) is a feature that revolutionizes the viewing
experience by bringing the power of IMDb directly to Kindle Fire
HD, Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. IMDb’s Facebook page
(https://www.facebook.com/imdb) and official Twitter account
(https://twitter.com/imdb) are followed by more than 12 million
passionate entertainment fans. IMDbPro (http://www.imdbpro.com) is
the essential resource for entertainment industry professionals.
This membership-based service includes comprehensive information
and tools that are designed to help entertainment industry
professionals achieve success throughout all stages of their
career. IMDbPro offers members the following: detailed contact and
representation information; IMDb profile management tools;
exclusive STARmeter rankings that are determined by page views on
IMDb; a casting service to post breakdowns and apply to roles, a
mobile optimized website and more. Additionally, IMDb owns and
operates Withoutabox (http://www.withoutabox.com), the premier
submission service for film festivals and filmmakers, and Box
Office Mojo (http://www.boxofficemojo.com), the leading online
source of box-office data. IMDb.com is operated by IMDb.com, Inc.,
a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)
(http://www.amazon.com). To learn more, go to:
http://www.imdb.com/press.
About Sundance Institute
Founded in 1981 by Robert Redford, Sundance Institute is a
nonprofit organization that provides and preserves the space for
artists in film, theatre, and new media to create and thrive. The
Institute's signature Labs, granting, and mentorship programs,
dedicated to developing new work, take place throughout the year in
the U.S. and internationally. The Sundance Film Festival and other
public programs connect audiences to artists in igniting new ideas,
discovering original voices, and building a community dedicated to
independent storytelling. Sundance Institute has supported such
projects as Boyhood, Swiss Army Man, Manchester By the Sea,
Brooklyn, Little Miss Sunshine, Life, Animated, Sonita, 20 Feet
From Stardom, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Fruitvale Station, Sin
Nombre, Spring Awakening, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
and Fun Home. Join Sundance Institute (http://www.sundance.org/) on
Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/sundance), Instagram
(http://instagram.com/sundanceorg), Twitter
(http://twitter.com/sundancefest) and YouTube
(http://www.youtube.com/sff).
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