Creating Shows Manually
your festival can showcase a combination of movies, special events (such as panels and musical performances), and programs (such as shorts programs or double features) collectively, filmbot refers to movies, special events, and programs as "shows" in order to enter a show manually, in your site admin, decide which type of content you need to enter, and then go to one of the following movies > add new movies > special events > click the "add new" button movies > programs > click the "add new" button enter in the following information title required description required full description of the show synopsis optional, will be generated automatically if left blank brief description used on listings pages ideally about 1 sentence long running time required total running time in whole minutes only release date required formatted as yyyy mm dd trailer url optional youtube or vimeo urls only type required for movies whether the movie is a feature or short you have the option to exclude individual shorts on some listing pages on your site image gallery optional additional images in the featured image gallery we recommend 1800px width for landscape images and 1000px height for poster images has subtitles? optional original title optional useful for entering a foreign language title premiere status optional enter the scope of this show's premiere, but do not enter the word "premiere" example "world", "u s " program(s) optional if this show is part of a program (such as a shorts program), select the program here featured image required we recommend 1800px width for landscape images and 1000px height for poster images section optional some festivals choose to organize their content into sections docid\ mlwpr9d 40 yezdv5xe51 languages optional language(s) spoken in the film comma separated list countries optional countr(ies) of production comma separated list genres optional comma separated list directors optional comma separated list cast members optional comma separated list precedes optional if this show precedes another show whenever it's shown (such as a short preceding a feature), select the film it precedes here note, this is not how to set up a shorts program, for that, use the program(s) field preceded by optional inverse of the precedes field; either one can be filled out sponsors optional if any sponsors are sponsoring this specific show, connect them here sponsors need to be added separately before connecting to shows) after you publish your show, you can view the page on the website by clicking view movie (or view special event / view program) in the admin bar