Features
Every feature, explained.
Not a list of buzzwords — the actual tools, and the problems they solve. Everything here is built for the festival campaign and release, not a personal blog.
The page
A cinematic home, at its own address.
A filmmaker's page is the first thing a festival programmer, a journalist, and a fan see. It should feel like the film, not like a form.
- — Poster-led hero with the title and logline overlaid
- — Trailer embed — YouTube and Vimeo, at the right size
- — Synopsis, cast & crew, festival laurels, contact
- — Press kit download — one PDF with everything a journalist needs
- — Four templates: Festival Minimal, Noir, Bold Poster, Cinematic Scroll
- — Per-film accent colour — same template, different film
- — Mobile-first — nothing breaks on a phone
- — Served from your own subdomain: yourfilm.cradlefilms.com
Your Film Title
Watch trailerAI copy
One logline becomes everything you need to say.
You know your film. The AI's job is not to invent — it is to write the same thing eleven different ways, so you spend less time staring at a blank press kit.
Synopsis
"A grieving mother returns to the village she fled, only to discover the son she thought she buried is alive — and the man who raised him is the one who killed her husband."
Director's statement
"I made this film because I needed to understand why the people we love become the people we leave. The village is real. The boy is not."
Festival logline
"A mother returns to bury a lie."
- — Short synopsis — 40 to 60 words, the hook
- — Long synopsis — 3 to 4 paragraphs, the full story
- — Director's statement — 150 words, first person
- — Producer's statement — 100 words, first person
- — Festival logline — 30 words, tuned for programmers
- — Instagram, X, TikTok captions with hashtags
- — Runs on Groq — fast and free while you are testing
- — Edit any field before it goes into the press kit
Festival tracking
Every submission. One dashboard. No surprises.
The festival campaign is where independent films lose money — missed deadlines, missed early-bird fees, missed premieres. This is the tool that fixes it.
01
Watch
Score festivals against your film. Add the ones worth tracking.
02
Ready
Track deadlines, fees, premiere rules. Total cost at a glance.
03
Submit
Mark as submitted. Get reminded before the next deadline.
04
Track
Accepted, rejected, waitlisted — one tap, full history.
- — Catalogue of active festivals with deadlines and fees
- — Track status: watch, review, ready, submitted, accepted, rejected, waitlisted, dropped
- — Premiere status per submission — world, national, regional, none
- — Fees paid vs fees listed — real spend, not rough guesses
- — Cost dashboard: committed, planned, average fee, deadlines in next 30 days
- — Email and in-app reminders — 7 days before regular deadline, 3 before late
- — Laurels from accepted festivals link straight to your public page
AI festival matching
Stop scanning festivals you will never submit to.
There are thousands of film festivals. You need the eight worth your submission fee. AI matching reads your logline and scores every festival against your film — with reasoning, so you understand the score.
Slamdance Film Festival
Matches your indie drama focus and accepts first-time feature directors.
SXSW — Narrative Competition
Strong genre fit, but acceptance rate is low for films without sales representation.
Rotterdam — Bright Future
First-feature focus aligns with your stage. Requires world premiere status.
Toronto — Discovery
Programs first features, but rarely without established producers.
Sundance — NEXT
Genre fit is weak — programme leans toward experimental work.
Analytics
See what actually moves the needle.
Most filmmakers have no idea which channels drive interest, because link-in-bio tools do not tell them. Cradle does.
Page views
1,247
Last 7 days · +18% vs previous week
Press kit downloads
38
All time · the strongest signal
Social clicks
412
All time · Instagram leads with 61%
- — Page views — with a 7-day sparkline and week-over-week trend
- — Press kit downloads — the strongest signal that someone is taking your film seriously
- — Social clicks — which platform people actually leave your page for
- — Server-side tracking — no cookies, no fingerprinting, no popup
- — Bot filtering — crawlers do not inflate your numbers
- — Yours to keep — export any of it whenever you want
Email capture
An audience that belongs to you.
Instagram followers do not translate to ticket sales. Email does. Cradle gives your film page a subscription form — and gives you the list.
- — Subscribe block — one email field, one "Notify me" button
- — Works inside your template's colour palette automatically
- — Duplicate-safe — the same email cannot sign up twice for the same film
- — Honeypot spam protection — no CAPTCHA for real humans
- — Rate-limited — five signups per minute per IP
- — Export to CSV — drop into Mailchimp, ConvertKit, or your own tool
- — List is visible only to you, not to other filmmakers, not to us
Get updates
All of it, in one page.
We onboard filmmakers personally. Tell us about your film and we will set up your page and walk you through it.
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