Festivals take place at various Cinemas in downtown Toronto, Canada, for the audience feedback video.

NOTE: The festival has created a hybrid festival with 4 tiers to enhance your film and your festival experience. All accepted films receive all four tier options:

Tier #1 - Your film plays at either a public live event where we will record the audience reactions of your short or feature and then send you the feedback video. Or, it plays at a private festival event where the audience will record their comments/reactions to your film on their camera or phone, then we edit them and send you a promotional video. No matter what you will receive a promotional video of your film of people commenting on your film.

Tier #2 - We put up your film live on the Film Festival Streaming Service for 30 hours and invite a select industry audience to watch it. With this system, some films have already received a distribution deal as many platforms are looking for solid feature and short films. We can not guarantee anything of course but this has been very helpful to many in the past. (see testimonials below)

Then (Tier #3) we will send you a list of questions to answer for our blog interview that will promote you and your film. Then after that (Tier #4) we will set up a podcast interview on our popular ITunes show where will we chat with you about the process of how the film was made.

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The goal of this festival is to showcase the best of new experimental short films and independent music videos from around the world. Films that don’t get a fair shake from other film festivals because programmers don’t know where to “categorize” these films. There isn’t a typical linear story occurring so most festivals can’t truly understand the talent and beauty around these films.

We want to showcase films that showcase true originality and talent from filmmakers from every corner of the globe. And also showcase new musicians who have made a music video and want it to be shown.

Get your short film or music video showcased at the FEEDBACK FIlm Festival and garner and audience feedback video:

NEW Showcase: Submit your FEATURE FILM and receive an audience feedback promotional/testimonial video of your film. Great video to use to get into more festivals and/or promote your film. All submissions receive feedback on their film no matter what.

We will try to program all submitted works. Accepted works get their film screened at the festival and will receive an audience feedback video of their film after the festival.

Experimental festivals occur 36 times a year in Toronto. Go to the website for information on the next events.

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  • Matthew Vargas

    Excellent festival! Very communicative and the feedback videos are a treat to watch. We were honored to also join the Wildsound Festival podcast after winning best short film, which ended up being an awesome and in-depth discussion on our project. We felt very appreciated as filmmakers and would definitely recommend anyone submits!

    December 2024
  • Participating in the Experimental/Dance/Music Film Festival has been an amazing experience! The team is professional, supportive, and genuinely passionate about celebrating creativity.

    The audience feedback video was such a thoughtful and unique addition and it meant so much to hear how viewers connected with our work. Being awarded Best Music Video for "Play the Key Revised" was an incredible honor, and we’re thrilled to have been part of such a well-curated and inspiring event.

    December 2024
  • Sue Schroeder

    Very well done and generous in their offerings. HOME was well-represented within this Festival. Grateful.

    December 2024
  • Suswana Chowdhury

    Second time screening at Experimental, Dance & Music Film Festival and once again it's been a great experience. The audience feedback videos are great promotional tools and they have several other offerings that are beneficial to filmmakers. Truly enjoy having my work considered and screened by them.

    December 2024
  • Virginia Duivenvoorden

    This festival is an exciting opportunity to have feedback on your film and to see it in screening amongst other films of a similar genre. It was great to be a part of! I am super thankful for the awesome feedback as well as the award for best dance film. It was an incredible experience after all the hard work of producing my first film. Thank you to the festival team.

    November 2024