Who is Eventival for?
Initially developed to simplify the planning and production of film festivals, Eventival has evolved
into a comprehensive platform that connects every aspect of event management. Cultural, business and
social organizations use it for everything from submissions, programming, scheduling, accreditation, registration,
guest services, communications, and access control to reporting, collaboration, and long-term archiving.

Contact Database
Eventival is a hub for all your personal, company, film, event and project data (i.e.
everything previously kept in Excel or Google sheets) which is entered, imported, stored and archived
and is always accessible online. Because Eventival is integrated with Cinando, its users have access to all
the people, film and company data in Cinando which they can import.

CRM
Many companies also use Eventival as a CRM that helps them keep track of their current and potential
sponsors, donors and suppliers and keep the history of communicating with them. Using the built-in mass
mailing system, they send mails, newsletters, press releases, etc.

Logistical toolbox
For film festivals, Eventival is obviously a logistical toolbox in which they can find practically everything
to help them handle calls for registration, sell and print badges, collect, review and select film
submissions, publish the information about the selected films and attending delegations as well as
special events on their website, and handle guest-related logistics from invitation to hotel
reservations, airport pickups and local transfers.

What sets Eventival apart from similar platforms?
Eventival is not the only festival management platform in the world – so why is used by more festivals
than all the other platforms combined? Other platforms are usually used by only a handful of smaller
local festivals so they are not really ready for working across borders, time zones and cultural
differences. They also have far fewer users – which means that you can’t really tell how stable
they are; that only becomes evident when the system has to handle hundreds of thousands of data
transactions, something Eventival has been doing for years. They often don’t grow: some have websites that
haven’t changed since their launch, often because they simply have little to add in terms of features
and clients. They’re also operated by small teams which results in slow response. And because some are
isolated from the industry to which they serve, they’re not integrated with other services and platforms
festivals need to use. And finally, they often depend on external funding – you never know when they
will run out of money and close down.