Case Study: Big Sky Documentary Film Festival achieves streamlined pitch submissions and expansion into audio documentaries with Submittable

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival - Customer Case Study

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula, MT, sought to grow appreciation and support for documentary storytelling through its DocShop forum and Big Sky Pitch, while expanding into new formats like audio documentaries. To manage submissions and experiment with this new medium, the festival turned to Submittable to collect and organize entries for its pitching process.

Using Submittable, the festival collected 50 pitch proposals in one year and narrowed them to seven finalists for the Big Sky Pitch, noting they’re “getting more and better quality proposals every year.” Submittable’s flexible platform also enabled the festival to open submissions to audio documentaries for 2018, supporting both the curation process and the festival’s continued growth as an event that drew roughly 20,000 attendees in 2017.

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

Rachel Gregg

Executive Director