Get real feedback on your short film
From people who watched the whole thing. Review other entrants’ films, and yours gets reviewed back — properly, by someone who sat through all of it.
Free. No email address, no password. Takes about three minutes.
Give more, get more
Every accepted review earns a reel, and longer films earn the most. Fifteen reels opens everything waiting on your own film.
People, not templates
Nobody can submit a review until they have played 90% of your film at normal speed. Reused text and restated loglines get sent back.
Nobody picks favourites
Films are assigned, never chosen. There is no browsing and no search, which is how the quiet films get watched instead of only the popular ones.
Anonymous forever
You will never learn who reviewed you — not on the site, not in an export. Which means nobody here is returning a favour.
You finished the film. Then nothing happened.
A few likes. “Nice work!” from someone returning a favour. Nothing that told you whether any of it landed.
It isn’t just you. Before building this, we read every comment on thirty films in this festival and coded them one at a time.
One film ran 7:53 and had twenty-two views and two comments, neither from anyone who had watched it. Another creator restated their own logline back at seven different films. The same template turned up on three unrelated accounts.
Months of work, and nobody to tell you where it worked.
Somebody watched the whole thing and wrote this
Every review comes from a person who played at least 90% of your film at normal speed, and who had to name something that worked before naming something that didn’t.
And a map of where you lost them
Reviewers tap as they watch — hooked, moved, tense, confused, lost me — and every tap records the moment it happened. Nothing else you have access to will tell you this.
Three steps, and one catch
The catch is that you do it for other people first. That is the whole mechanism, and it is the only reason the reviews here are worth reading.
A passkey your device creates and keeps, and a one-time code in your video's description to prove the upload is yours. No email anywhere — nothing to lose in a spam folder, nothing to reset.
Watch one properly, tap as you go, then name one thing that worked and one that didn't — both citing a moment you actually played. Under 8 minutes earns 1 reel, 8 to 15 earns 2, over 15 earns 3.
Reviews on your film arrive from day one and wait for you. At fifteen they all open at once, with the engagement curve. Roughly five to fifteen films, depending on length.
Run out of time and you still see the share of your feedback you earned. Nothing you wrote is ever thrown away.
A review can’t be submitted until it earns its place
Two required answers, both specific, both citing a moment from a stretch the reviewer actually played. The site checks all of that before it ever reaches you.
Using AI to help write is fine and we don’t test for it — detectors are unreliable and punish people writing in a second language. What gets checked is whether someone watched.
- Not a ranking. No scores, leaderboards or “top films” here, and there never will be.
- Not a voting bloc. Nothing done here touches any festival outcome, and reviewing closes before winners are announced.
- Not affiliated with the contest platform. Separate site, separate people.
- Not a paywall. The price is reviewing, and it is the same for everyone.
Find out where your film actually landed
You must be 18 or over, matching the contest’s rules.