Hi Dominic, There’s a subreddit called “Film Festivals” that is mostly filmmakers providing information about when people receiving festival notifications and what kind (premiere check, acceptance, rejection, etc).
That subreddit has a regular genre of question related to Vimeo stats, as some filmmakers obsess about them. There have been a few folks there who have tested them directly themselves, and they have confirmed repeatedly that they are not always accurate. There are likely certain browsing conditions where Vimeo is unable to track the conditions, or track them correctly. I also had a recent view from a friend who was sitting right beside me in Winnipeg, and hers tracked as a view from Vancouver - which is literally over 2000 kms away from me. In Europe terms, that would be the difference from a stat showing as Barcelona instead of Warsaw. Combined with the fact that programmers also don’t necessarily live / work / watch films from the city where the festival is held, then I don’t see a way you can be sure you’ve had an open / watch / view from a festival unless you have opened up unique links for every single submission. Similar to what the “Film Festivals” subreddit suggests, I suggest stepping away from the Vimeo stats and focusing yourself on what you can control / influence. If you suspect that a festival is not watching your film, or that they aren’t open to works from filmmakers they’ve never heard of before or styles / approaches you use as a filmmaker, I suggest you not submit to the them in the future. Take care, Cecilia > On Sep 1, 2025, at 12:59 PM, Dominic Angerame <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Received this today, its so strange since Vimeo analytics must not be working > right. > > > Tramway Film Festival > 10:45 AM (12 minutes ago) > to me > > Dear Dominic, > > Thank you for submitting your film. What you are writing about is > impossible, because, first of all, I watched all the submitted films. I > did this deliberately so that I would have plenty of time. Secondly, to > be sure, I checked my notebook, where I wrote down all the films I > watched. Your film was watched as the 86th film among those submitted to > the Cine Sin Fine section. > > Best regards, > Bartosz Reetz > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org
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