Legit Fests (legitfests.com) is a free research tool for filmmakers. We help you check whether a festival looks legitimate before you pay submission fees.
What we do
- Score festivals on structural trust signals (accreditations, screenings, history)
- Surface red flags associated with award mills and scam patterns
- Aggregate industry news and filmmaker reputation signals
- Let users research, compare, report, and watchlist festivals
Reddit API use
We use the Reddit API only to read public posts and comments in film-related communities (for example r/Filmmakers, r/shortfilm, r/Screenwriting) when those discussions mention festivals in our database.
- Read-only access to public content
- Used to improve scam/legitimacy research for filmmakers
- We do not post, vote, message users, or collect private account data
- Matched discussions may appear as reputation signals or source links on festival pages