Filmmakers and films

Make the website a Filmmaker website: choose Filmmaker when you add it, or open the website, then Site Settings, General, and check Filmmaker under What this website is. A Filmmaker website has Films under Pages & Content in its menu, and the Filmmaker Blocks section in the website builder. The other kinds can stay checked too. Unchecking Filmmaker later stops new filmmaker blocks from being added on that website. It does not delete films or remove blocks already published on it.

Films are in your website's own menu: open the website, then Pages & Content, Films. Open a film and each part of it has its own tab, with one Save for the whole film.

Each film has one record for its title, logline, synopses, year, runtime, format, genres, languages, countries, production stage, release date, poster, backdrop, trailer, and official website. The same record holds cast and crew, festival selections and awards, press coverage, downloadable assets, press kits, watch links, and private notes. Publishing a film creates its public page and adds it to the site's Films page.

The Logline is one sentence about the story and is shown on Filmography cards. The Highlight is the short line under the title in the Film Hero, usually the film's biggest award. Set Main Film to Yes on the film your website is about: the Film Hero shows it, and it is left out of Previous Films. Only one film can be the main film, so choosing one clears it on the others. World Premiere is shown in Film Details, and Stills are the photos for the Film Details gallery, in the order you set with the arrows.

Each award under Festivals & Awards can carry its Laurel, the festival's laurel artwork. The first laurels in the list are the ones your landing page shows, so move the strongest to the top with the arrows.

Screenings are not typed on the film. A screening is an event in Content, Events Calendar with the film chosen under Related Film, so a date is entered once and shows in your calendar and on the film. The film's Screenings tab lists them and has an Add a screening button. The event's tag says what kind it is: Festival, Special event, or Cinema screening. Your site lists festivals and cinema dates separately, so the tag decides where a screening appears; an event with neither the Festival nor the Special event tag counts as a cinema screening. The event's image is the cinema's or the festival's logo.

Press is two lists. Critic Quotes holds short quotes from reviews, each with the critic, the outlet, the outlet's logo and Link to the Review; the first quotes in the list are the ones your landing page shows. A quote with a link opens that review on your website, wherever the quote appears. Press Articles holds headlines with a link, a date and a photo; switch Highlight on for an article with a photo to show it as a card, and the rest are listed under More Coverage. The first 4 highlights are the ones your landing page shows. An outlet with no logo is shown by its name. A quote or article with no link is flagged in red under its link, so you can find the ones to fill in.

Where to Watch lists each place the film can be seen: pick the Platform from the list (or Other and type its name), choose How (Stream, Rent or buy, Free), add a short Note such as a price, the Link and, if it only plays in some countries, the Region. Each one becomes a tile with a Watch button. A film with no places to watch shows no Where to Watch section.

Press Kit holds the files journalists download: give each one a Name, choose What It Is (poster, film stills, photos of the filmmakers, press notes, title treatment, trailer) and upload the File, a picture, a video or a PDF. Use the arrows to set the order. When a film has files, your website gets a Press Kit page; with none, there is no press kit. Under Contacts for This Film you can add a press contact and a screening bookings contact for when someone else handles that film, like a distributor. Left empty, your website's own contact is used.

Open your website, then Content, Films, and choose under This Website Is About, below the list of films. With One film, the website is about that film: there is no Films page, and the main film has no separate page, because the whole website is about it. Your other films appear as Previous Films on your About page, and each opens its own small page. The Film Hero's About button opens your About page. With A production company, your website has a Films page and a page for every film, and each Film Hero slide's About button opens that film's page. If you never choose, a website with one published film counts as One film and a website with more counts as a production company.

Yes. Open your website, then Content, Films, and find Film Pages below the list of films.

Page That Lists Your Films is the page each film's page links back to. A film's page shows that link above the film's details, as Home, then the page, then the film. It starts as the Films page. Choose another page when your Filmography block is somewhere else, such as a festival page.

Word In A Film's Address is the word before the film's name in its web address. It starts as films, so a film is at /films/the-films-name. Type another word when the films belong to something with its own name, such as a festival: with ripcord, a film is at /ripcord/the-films-name. The old address keeps working and sends visitors to the new one. The word needs three characters or more and cannot be an address the website already uses.

Each film's page also ends with Previous film and Next film, in the same order as your list of films, so a visitor can go through the films one after another.

When you import a filmmaker's website, Podspun reads its pages and fills in each film it finds (under Content, Films, in your website's menu): the synopsis, credits, festivals and awards with their laurels, screenings (festival, cinema or special event, with each venue's logo, filed in Events Calendar with the film chosen), critic quotes and press articles with the outlets' logos and photos, where to watch, stills and press kit files. Pictures and PDFs are copied to your website's files. It only uses what your pages say, so check each film and fill in anything it missed. This happens on your preview too, and if your preview still has no films when you turn your site on, they are filled in then.

Your pages are then laid out for you. A website about one film gets a landing page with the Film Hero, Film Details and short previews (laurels, the next screenings, one critic quote at a time, press highlights, where to watch), a Screenings page, a Press page and, when there are files, a Press Kit page, with your old site's own screenings or press page reused. The film's credits and your other films go on About. A production company's landing shows a slide and a card for every film, and each film has its own page.

Film Hero, Filmography, Film Details, Film Credits, Festival Selections and Awards, Press Coverage, Film Press Kit, and Where to Watch are in Filmmaker Blocks. They are filled from your website's films (Content, Films) and appear in the picker on a Filmmaker website. People, Events, Reviews and Press Quotes, Downloads, Platform Links, Gallery, Media, Cards, and social blocks stay in the shared sections because they are useful to every kind of website. A shared block can still choose a film as its source.

Film Hero shows the film's backdrop with its Year and Format, the title and the film's Highlight line (the Logline when there is no Highlight). Its About button opens your About page on a website about one film (and is hidden when there is no About page), or the film's own page on a production company's website. Its Watch trailer button opens the trailer on YouTube. A button with nowhere to go is not shown. In the block's settings, Show picks Main film only or All films, as a slider, with the main film first. All films leaves out a film that has only a poster and no backdrop, since a tall poster does not fill a wide slide; the main film always shows. Under Your Own Slides you can add extra slides after the film slides, each with its own picture or video, text and buttons.

Film Details shows the Long Synopsis (or the Short Synopsis), then one row of facts: Directed by (the credits whose role includes Director), World Premiere, Year, Country, Language, Format and Running time, plus Genre when it says something the Format does not. Country and Language come from the Countries and Languages on the film's Details tab, and read Countries and Languages when there is more than one. When the film's Official website is filled in, an Official website link follows the facts and opens that site in a new tab. Under them are the film's Stills; a click opens a still full size. In the block's settings, Stills picks Move by themselves (they drift and stop under the mouse) or Slider with arrows. Both loop.

Film Credits lists the film's people, one per row, with their portrait, role and bio. A list of five or more people where no one has a portrait or a bio is shown as a credit list instead: names and roles in columns, as many as fit across the page. The People block does the same. With no heading of your own it reads Cast & crew when anyone has a Character, and Filmmakers when no one does, as in most documentaries.

Festival Selections and Awards has two displays. Laurel row shows the first six laurels from the film's Festivals & Awards tab, in your order, and is made for a dark band on the landing page; set a Button Link to add a See the full festival run button to the page with the full list. Full list shows a card for each festival screening (an event of the film tagged Festival): its image (the festival's laurel), its dates, the festival, its Note and city, and a Learn more link; an award whose festival has no screening gets a card too. In the laurel row, laurels are repainted in one colour so they read on a light or a dark background. If no award has a laurel, the block shows the full list.

An Events block with a film chosen lists that film's screenings (its events in Events Calendar), one row each: the dates, where, the guests, the venue's logo and a Tickets & info button. The whole row opens the ticket link. Festival screenings are left out because Festival Selections and Awards shows them. The Screenings setting picks Coming up and past, which splits the list by date on its own as dates pass and hides an empty half, or Next 3 coming up for your landing page, which shows nothing when no screening is coming up; add a See All Link to show a See all screenings button. Switch on Host a Screening Button to show "Want to bring the film to your city? Host a screening": on the landing version it shows only when nothing is coming up, and on the full list it sits at the end. It writes to the film's screening bookings contact, or opens your Contact page when the film has none.

Filmography shows every published film as a card with its backdrop, Year and Format, title and Logline, and a View film link to the film's own page. The main film comes first. Switch on Leave Out the Main Film for a Previous Films list on a site about one film. To list feature films and television apart, as a film editor's site does, use two Filmography blocks with Which Films set to Feature films only and Television only: each film is sorted by its Format, and a format that says television, TV or series is television, so a new film lands in the right list by itself. To show only some films, set Which Films to Chosen films and pick them with Choose films: the block shows those films in the order you set with the arrows, such as a festival's Top 10 out of its lineup, and a film that is not published does not show. For a long list, such as a festival lineup, set Columns to Four across or Five across and Card Text to Title, director and running time: each card is then the picture, the title and one line, and a phone shows two across.

A Reviews and Press Quotes block with a film chosen shows that film's Critic Quotes, never its articles. Display picks Quote wall, every quote as a card only as tall as its quote (made for your Press page), or One at a time, one large quote with dots to jump between quotes, made for a dark band on your landing page. It moves on by itself, stops while the mouse is over it, and holds a quote for ten seconds after a dot is clicked. Add a Button Link to show a Read what critics are saying button. A quote whose Link to the Review is filled in opens that review in a new tab, in both displays; one without a link is not clickable. Each outlet's logo is shown in one colour and at one size; an outlet with no logo is shown by its name.

Press Coverage shows the film's Press Articles. Display picks Press page, which shows Press highlights (articles with Highlight on and a photo, as cards) and then More coverage (every other article, listed with its outlet, date and headline); Featured in, the outlets' logos in one row for the top of your Press page (outlets of your articles first, then your critics', each once, up to eight); or Landing, the first four highlights, with a See all press button when a Button Link is set. A display with nothing to show does not appear.

Where to Watch shows one tile per place in the film's Where to Watch list, two per row: the platform, how (Stream, Rent or buy, Free), the Note and Region, and a Watch button. A place outside its Available From and Available Until dates is left out, and when nothing is left the block does not appear. Platform Links, the shared block, still shows its row of buttons.

A Press Kit block with a film chosen shows that film's Press Kit files. Display picks Press room, for your Press Kit page: the poster large on the left, every other file as a line with a preview, its name, what it is, its file type and size (for files uploaded to your website), and a download button, then the film's press contact when there is one. Or Invitation box, for the bottom of your Press page: the first pictures fanned out and an Open press kit button to the page you choose under Press Kit Page. With no files, the block does not appear.

Because they come from the film, not from the page. The same film feeds several blocks across several pages, so a change typed on one page would have to quietly change all the others. You change it once on the film, under Pages & Content, Films, and every page follows.

Open a film block in the website builder and its settings say which part of the film fills it, with a button straight to that tab of the film the block is showing: Details for Film Hero and Film Details, People & Credits for Film Credits, Festivals & Awards, Screenings, Critic Quotes, Press Articles, Where to Watch, or Press Kit. The block's own settings, which film it shows, its heading and how it is displayed, stay on the page.

The Film box at the top of a film block is normally left alone. It reads The main film, with that film's name, which means the block shows whichever film you have set as the main film, so your website follows if you ever change which that is. Choose a film in the box to pin the block to that one film instead. On a block every kind of website shares (Events, Reviews and Press Quotes, People, Downloads) the box reads No film, and the block then uses the items you type into the block itself.

Yes. Import the Instagram, TikTok or LinkedIn account through My Channels, then open a film under Pages & Content, Films, in your website's menu and choose its Social Posts tab. One post can be connected to several films. Podspun can suggest matches from film titles, but every suggestion waits for you to confirm or reject it. Connections can be labeled as an announcement, trailer, behind the scenes, festival, press, screening, cast and crew, or other.

Open your website, then Content, Events Calendar, and click Add event. One record holds the title, venue, city, country, the event's own time zone, its date (or its start and end times), an RSVP or tickets link, a stream link for while it is live, a replay link for after, a note, an image, and an optional related film, product, or auction. Set Status to Published for it to show; a Draft never appears on the website. Choosing a film under Related Film makes the event one of that film's screenings.

Every Events block and Live Now block on your pages reads these records, so changing a date here changes it everywhere at once. Choose Yes under Date Only for a festival window or an announcement day: a date-only event is never shown as live. Give an event a start time when something goes on the air or on stage at a set moment. Canceling an event keeps it listed with a Canceled label until its date has passed; Unpublish or Delete removes it.

Yes. Open Site Editor Chat in your website editor and ask for article ideas. It reads your Instagram and TikTok posts, the articles already on your site, and what visitors searched for. Pick an idea and it writes a full article from those posts, with your photos placed where they fit, a search title, and a description. It saves as a draft until you publish it.

Yes. The type is set on each website, and a website can be more than one type. One account can also hold separate websites of different types.

Film Hero, Filmography, Film Details, Film Credits, Festival Selections and Awards, Film Press Kit, and Where to Watch. They appear on a website whose type includes Filmmaker.

Screenings use the shared Events block. A screening is an event in the site's calendar with a film chosen, and every kind of website can use the same block for its own events.

Yes. Film and social post connections are many-to-many. Suggested matches wait for confirmation.

Filmmaker stays on while the website has films or a page uses a film block. Once those are removed, turning it off stops filmmaker blocks from being offered on that website.

Yes. Published film pages include Movie structured data, plus VideoObject data when a trailer is present. Published film URLs are added to the sitemap.