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Film Festival Print Traffic

  • Do you want your film festival to go off without a hitch?
  • Did you spend last year’s festival scrambling at the last minute to get titles that actually worked?
  • Do you want smooth sailing this year?

Film festivals both large and small have one thing in common: receiving all those titles is a huge, huge mess! When DKP handles print traffic for a festival, our job is simple: sort out the mess and deliver films to the theater that will work.

What format does a film festival receive for their films?

Almost all film festivals receive DCPs (Digital Cinema Packages) as their playback files from all filmmakers. Occasionally, smaller festivals will receive other formats like MP4 and MOV files and convert them to DCP.

Unfortunately, many DCPs have technical issues and just won’t work properly in the theater. Other DCPs have human errors such as incorrect aspect ratios, missing subtitles, and even watermarks!

DKP tests each DCP that we receive for a festival by first spot checking playback and then running a technical verification to see that they’re legal for playback before sending them on to the theater.

Our reliability rate for deliveries is nearly 100%.

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Most DCPs are received via a portal that we set up with the festival or rarely shipped in on physical drives.

DKP has worked with festivals both large and small to “sort out the mess” and deliver functional DCPs to the theater. Contact us today to see what we can do for your film festival.

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