FESTIVALS One

To update your film blog,

Step 1: Log in. You can ask for a new password here.

Step 2: Personalize your blog

To personalize your blog, click on My Fest21 on the left column

You can fill the fields of the two tabs Account Settings and User Info to by example add logo, banner, film description, contact info, etc. If you have problem to personalize your blog, you can consult the help pages.

Step 3: Add Content

To Add content, click on the left column on "create content"

You can by example add:

• Text: Synopsis, directors, bio, productions, notes, festival circuit
• Video: Video trailer, excerpts
• Image: The poster (select film poster channel),cast
• Weblink: Official website, partners website, etc.
• Audio: Interview, Podcast, etc.

You can consult the help pages if you have problems adding your content. Add regurlary new content improve your visibility on fest21 and on search engine.

Recent  and prolific and interesting contributors are promoted on the home page, and may be republished on filmfestivals.com. 

Steps 4: Promote your film Videoblog

A few tips to improve your visibility on Fest21 and Google:

- Publish original content. Add regularly new content; for example, update your blog once a week

- Use title that describes your content well, choose category for your content and add tags (ie words describing the content).

- For Video, Pictures and Audio files that you upload, it's better to name them video_cannes_festival than video090998980 for example. It also helps search engines.

- Use our special promotion offers and make sure to promote your Festival (Bulletin Board), your Film(Showcase) , your Online Platform (Exposure) and more. 

- Share your content on Digg, Delicious, or other social network like Facebook, Netvibes, Myspace, Twitter... Use your RSS to republish automatically in your other blogs.

- Create your own widget to promote your content or general festival content on various websites...

- Add a link to your blog on your other websites, on cinema or blog's directories, on the websites of your partners...

- Add your Videoblog on your press releases

Steps 5: Submit your film to festivals

With our free tool Festivalexpress is really easy now to submit a film to festivals. CLick here to know more about.

To see how to update your film library, please click here.  and if you have other questions, consult the help pages, contact us or contact the editor at editor at filmfestivals.com.