Festival Genius User Guide

Festival Genius User Guide

Welcome to the Festival Genius User Guide. Our guide will take you through using the Festival Genius Dashboard to get your festival program up and running. The dashboard (sometimes referred to as ‘filmmaker maint’) is primarily designed for festivals who have opted for the BASIC license package, where festival staff will be responsible for uploading their own schedule data to Festival Genius. Our support staff will also be on hand every step of the way should you have any questions. The dashboard can be accessed here: http://maint.festivalgenius.com
Your Account Manager will have provided you with personal login username and password details. If you do not have these please contact: help@festivalgenius.com

Table of Contents

1. Outline of Our Setup Process

2. The Beginnings of Your Interactive Schedule – The Generic Template

3. Adding Films & Schedule Information

• Accessing Filmmaker Maint
• Adding Films By Import
  1. Creating Your Import
  2. Formatting Your Import
  3. Uploading Your Import
  4. Withoutabox Film-Only Export/Import
  5. Uploading Your Withoutabox Import
• Adding Films Manually
  1. Creating Films
  2. Film Collateral
  3. Editing Existing Films
• Adding Screenings Manually
  1. Activating Films
  2. Adding/Editing Venues
• Adding Shorts Programs & Parent/Child Screenings
  1. Shorts Programs
  2. Creating a Shorts Program
  3. Creating a Parent/Child Screening

4. Customizing Festival Genius

• Featured Films
• Custom Pages
• Adding Images and Trailers

5. Ticketing Integration

• External Ticketing
• Integrated Ticketing

6. Inviting Filmmakers to Contribute

7. Taking Festival Genius Live

• Linking Festival Genius to Your Festival Site
• Hiding Films & Schedule From Public View

8. Support

9. Site Usage Statistics