Portugal , 2018
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...
Mexico , 2016
Guadalajara IFF
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.
Italy , 2016
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.
Italy , 2012
Giffoni Film Festival
We were the first festival to use Eventival in 2009 when it was far from completed, but it already helped us a lot with the management of guests, films and our thousands of child jurors (imagine managing the work related to 2 800 kids!) ... The people who work with Eventival, including their multilingual programmers, were available when we needed them ...
I am sure that festivals that decide to use Eventival will be happy to work with them.
Iceland , 2012
Reykjavík IFF
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.
Czech Republic , 2012
Ji.hlava IDFF
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.
, 2015
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.
Dominican Republic , 2017
Kosmorama Trondheim International Film 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
, 2016
Successful collaboration + friendly environment + flexible approach + effort to satisfy our needs = perfect satisfaction.
Czech Republic , 2016
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.
Germany
Nuremberg IHRFF
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.
Dominican Republic , 2016
Eurasia International Film Festival
<span>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 efficiently, but at the same time is quite easy in getting into it.</span>
<span>We hope to develop our co-operation with Eventival!</span>
Dominican Republic , 2012
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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 2.0 is still in development, it has already become a 'full time member' of our festival team.
Dominican Republic
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.
Switzerland , 2015
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.
, 2018
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.
Lithuania , 2015
Vilnius IFF
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.
Dominican Republic , 2012
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.
Czech Republic
Mezipatra Queer FF
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!
Czech Republic , 2016
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.