Festival API Reviews & Product Details

Festival API is a film festival data API for filmmakers, developer tools, AI agents, entertainment platforms, and film industry workflows. Festival API helps answer one simple question: which film festivals are accepting submissions right now? We track 14,000+ active, verified film festivals across 30+ categories and 100+ countries, then make that data available through a clean, developer-friendly REST API. Developers can query structured festival data directly without scraping festival websites, checking submission platforms, or maintaining spreadsheets of deadlines, fees, and requirements. Festival API is built for products that serve filmmakers, including festival discovery apps, submission planning tools, filmmaker dashboards, AI agents, entertainment marketplaces, studio tools, distributor workflows, and research platforms. With Festival API, users can: * Search festivals by name, category, genre, country, deadline, and fee maximum * Find festivals currently accepting submissions * Filter opportunities for shorts, features, documentaries, animation, horror, sci-fi, comedy, experimental film, music videos, and more * Discover niche opportunities for AI film, VR/360, vertical shorts, web series, branded content, creator content, cultural festivals, and diaspora festivals * Access details including deadlines, fees, categories, genres, countries, eligibility requirements, and contact info * Use Festival Score, a proprietary 0 to 100 score that helps rank festivals by relevance to a film Film festival discovery is fragmented. Important information is spread across submission platforms, festival websites, directories, old pages, and individual listings. That makes it difficult for filmmakers to know where to submit and difficult for developers to build reliable discovery tools. Festival API turns that process into structured data. We have scouted 30,000+ festivals through our discovery pipeline and currently serve 14,000+ active, verified festivals. We exclude festivals that appear defunct, have dead websites, lack recent events, have no active submission calls, or lack enough verifiable data. The database grows as new festivals launch and inactive festivals become active again. Festival API provides clean JSON responses, Bearer token authentication, documented endpoints, and a simple prepaid credit system. Every new account includes free trial credits, with no credit card required. Festival API is available through direct API access, RapidAPI, Apify Actor, Zapier, n8n, and official Python and Node.js client libraries. Use cases include filmmaker submission planning tools, AI festival recommendation agents, festival discovery platforms, entertainment dashboards, studio and distributor research workflows, creator tools, and databases for film organizations and consultants. Festival API is designed to be the data layer for film festival discovery, giving builders reliable access to the festival information they need without the scraping headache.