Streamline Film Festival Submissions with CUTLIST's Modern WorkflowStreamline Film Festival Submissions with CUTLIST's Modern Workflow
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For #ConfigMakeathon, I built CUTLIST — an operational layer for independent filmmakers managing festival submissions. I built it because I'm the one who needs it.
I make AI films and submit them to festivals. Portals handle discovery. Calendars handle deadlines. But the part that actually decides whether a film gets in lives nowhere: disclosure requirements, subtitle status, export formats, shifting AI policies, premiere restrictions — and whether a film is even eligible. I was holding all of it together across spreadsheets, emails, and a dozen festival portals.
Here's the kind of thing that slips through the cracks: a film accepted at one festival can lose its premiere eligibility at another. A calendar will never catch that. CUTLIST does.
It doesn't replace FilmFreeway or your calendar — it's the layer on top of them, tracking the one thing they don't: readiness. Policy status (Confirmed Eligible · Disclosure Required · Hybrid Allowed · Manual Review), export and subtitle readiness, package completion, submission history, and the next action before a film is actually ready to send.
I designed it to show what isn't ready — pending assets, open policy questions, missing subtitles — because a perfectly green board is a mockup, not a tool you actually run.
Built entirely in Figma Make: the dashboard, the operational workflow, and an interactive festival detail drawer.
I built the workflow I needed but couldn't find.
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