Who is Eventival for?
Initially developed as a dedicated film festival organisation and planning tool, Eventival has also
begun to be useful for other cultural, social and business organisations. Their teams use it organise
large events like festivals or small events like press conferences or workshops. Some clients don’t even
organise anything, and only use Eventival as the place where they store their contacts, tasks, and
communication history.

Contact Database
First and foremost, EBO is a hub for all your personal, company, film, event and project data (i.e.
everything previously kept in Excel or Google sheets) which is entered, imported, stored and archived
and is always accessible online. Because EBO is integrated with Cinando, its users have access to all
the people, film and company data in Cinando which they can import.

CRM
Many companies also use EBO as a customer relation management (CRM) that helps them keep track of theit
current and potential sponsors, donors and suppliers and keep the history of communicating with them.
Using the built-in mass mailing system, they send mails, newsletters, press releases, etc.

Logistical toolbox
For film festivals, EBO is obviously a logistical toolbox in which they can find practically everything
to help them handle calls for registration, sell and print badges, collect, review and select film
submissions, publish the information about the selected films and attending delegations as well as
special events on their website, and handle guest-related logistics from invitation to hotel
reservations, airport pickups and local transfers.

What sets Eventival Back Office apart from other film festivals platforms?
EBO is not the only film festival management platform in the world. So why is used by more festivals
than all the other platforms combined? Other platforms are usually used by only a handful of smaller
local festivals so they are not really ready for working across borders, time zones and cultural
differences. They also have far fewer users – which means that you can’t really tell how stable
they are; that only becomes evident when the system has to handle hundreds of thousands of data
transactions, something EBO has been doing for years. They often don’t grow: some have websites that
haven’t changed since their launch, often because they simply have little to add in terms of features
and clients. They’re also operated by small teams which results in slow response. And because some are
isolated from the industry to which they serve, they’re not integrated with other services and platforms
festivals need to use. And finally, they often depend on external funding – you never know when they
will run out of money and close down.