Introducing SparqFest Judging

The SparqFest Judging Module is an optional component that is currently included in your SparqFest subscription. If you are an inaugural customer, you will have access to this module as part of your subscription as long as your subscription is active without any extra charges. As the name implies, the Judging Module enables you to define award categ...

Voting Life Cycle

Both audience choice and juried awards follow the same life cycle. This article briefly outlines each step of the process and how you get from the creation of an award to announcing a winner. Nominating When you create a new award, it starts in the “Nominating” state. During this initial phase, the person managing the voting process has the followin...

Audience Choice Voting

Audience Choice Awards are both loved and hated at film festivals. At their worst, they are easy to game and make people roll their eyes.  At their best, audience choice awards provide a unique avenue to award creators. With the advent of online screening, figuring out a way to execute audience choice awards across online and in-person audiences has...

Maximize Audience Choice Participation

As our audience choice voting functionality has evolved, we've added a number of features to encourage festival attendees to take part in the voting. This articles describes both what SparqFest does to maximize participation as well as suggestions of things you can do. SparqFest Features When a viewer watches any content online, SparqFest sends them...

Juried Award Voting

The SparqFest jury voting system was created long before COVID-19 to help festival jury members collaborate over the internet to select winners of festival awards. It enables you to define awards of various types, configuring voting rules, nominate selections, invite in your jury, and then let the jury loose to their task. If you are not yet familia...