vivenu alternatives: a film festival's website and ticketing in one

vivenu is an API-first, white-label ticketing platform founded near Frankfurt in 2018, which says it now serves more than 1,000 clients in over 50 countries across sport, music, attractions, conventions, performing arts and festivals. It gives organisers branded ticket shops on their own domain, a headless API and SDKs, audience segmentation, resale and on-site access control. Filmfest Hamburg runs its ticket shop on vivenu, including its accreditation shop and multi-ticket pass. vivenu does not publish prices.

vivenu's festival pitch is written for large-scale events: camping, parking, VIP upgrades, RFID wristbands. It is infrastructure, and it expects you to bring the rest: Filmfest Hamburg's programme lives on filmfesthamburg.de while its tickets are sold on a separate vivenu shop. Film festivals look for a vivenu alternative when they want the programme and the checkout in one place, built for sections, single screenings and passes rather than stages and gates, from a supplier that serves film.

A film festival's audience browses before it buys. It reads the section, opens the film page, watches the trailer, checks the other screening and then books. When the programme is one website and the ticket shop is another, every one of those journeys crosses a join, and somebody has to keep film data, sessions and prices in step between the two for every edition.

On Filmgrail the film page is where the session is booked. Sections and strands are first-class content in the CMS, passes are sold before the programme exists and redeemed later, industry screenings stay off public sale while accredited guests can still book them, and the branded apps run on the same content. You do not need a development team to assemble it, and the edition rolls forward to next year without a rebuild.

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Festivals already running their public edition on Filmgrail include the Bergen International Film Festival, Norway's largest film festival with over 120 documentary and fiction films a year, and the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund, which runs a public programme and the New Nordic Films industry market in the same week from one system. Haugesund's main venue, Edda Kino, runs on the same platform all year, so the festival and the cinema share one infrastructure.

Because the public edition is where a festival earns its audience, and it deserves a website and app that are unmistakably yours: sections and strands as first-class content, passes sold before the programme exists and redeemed later, industry accreditation beside public sale, and a site built to stay up the hour the programme drops. The edition rolls forward every year as content, not as a new build.

A mid-size international festival pays about $5,000 a year, flat, with no per-ticket fees, and smaller festivals pay less (see pricing). If we already integrate your ticketing and payment provider you can be live in a few weeks; a provider we have not connected before takes about a month.

See it before you talk to anyone: build your festival's prototype in 30 seconds — your own festival site and festival back office, from your current address. Then book a festival demo against your real programme, and read how the festival platform works.