The film festival data API for filmmakers, developer tools, AI agents, and entertainment platforms.

Festival API helps answer one simple question: which film festivals are accepting submissions right now?

We track 12,000+ active, verified film festivals across 30+ categories and 159 countries, then make that data available through a clean, developer-friendly REST API. Instead of scraping festival websites, manually searching submission platforms, or maintaining spreadsheets of deadlines and fees, developers can query structured festival data directly.

Festival API is built for filmmakers and the products that serve them: festival discovery apps, submission planning tools, filmmaker dashboards, AI agents, entertainment marketplaces, studio tools, distributor workflows, and film industry research products.

What you can do with Festival API

• Search festivals by name, category, genre, country, deadline, and fee maximum

• Find festivals currently accepting submissions

• Filter opportunities for short films, 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 festival 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

• Build submission planning tools without maintaining your own festival database

Why it exists

Film festival discovery is still 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 festival discovery tools.

Festival API turns that messy process into structured data.

We have scouted 20,000+ festivals through our discovery pipeline and currently serve 12,000+ active, verified festivals. We exclude festivals that appear defunct, have dead websites, lack recent events, have no active submission calls, or do not provide enough verifiable data. The database continues to grow as new festivals launch and previously inactive festivals become active again.

Built for developers

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.

You can access Festival API through several developer-friendly channels:

• Direct API access through the main Festival API platform

• Festival API on RapidAPI for developers who prefer using the RapidAPI marketplace, billing, and hosted API workflow

• Festival API Actor on Apify for developers, automations, and agents that want to run Festival API as an Apify Actor

• Official Python client: pip install festivalapi

• Official Node.js client: npm install festivalapi

Example use cases

• Filmmaker submission planning tools

• AI agents that recommend festivals

• Film festival discovery platforms

• Entertainment industry dashboards

• Studio and distributor research workflows

• Creator tools for short films, web series, and niche content

• Internal databases for film organizations and consultants

Festival API is designed to be the data layer for film festival discovery. It gives builders reliable access to the festival information they need, without the scraping headache.