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Release Date for Festival
posted by ticao2 š§š· pt-BRSTAFFMOD on January 5, 2018 at 2:47 PM
When a film is presented at a festival, such as Cannes or Sundance, what kind of Release Date should I use? Premiere?
I suppose it's not Theatrical (limited).
Reply by Marr š³š±
on January 5, 2018 at 4:02 PM
Yes, premiere indeed! :)
Reply by tmdb24407783
on January 9, 2019 at 2:37 AM
So any and all festival screenings (that aren't test screenings, press screenings, private screenings, etc...) should use "premiere"?
Reply by Banana
on January 9, 2019 at 3:42 AM
Yup! All festival screenings, including non-premiere screenings, should have "premiere" as the type of release.
Reply by tmdb24407783
on January 23, 2019 at 2:55 AM
Okay, cool.
Before, I was a little confused by, the following in the Release Dates section, under "Type" and the sub heading "Premiere":
I thought that meant only festival screenings that are premiere festival screenings count as premiere type release dates- and that all other festival screenings are not to be added (since they don't fall into any other "type" category).