alterlab-cdm-festival-strategy

alterlab-cdm-festival-strategy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills. It costs 127 tokens per session (2,517 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A film-festival submission guide for preparing a film and planning where and when to submit it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing loglines, synopses, and director’s statements, and planning premiere strategies and submissions through services such as FilmFreeway.
Why use it?
It helps filmmakers handle submission requirements and decide how to approach the festival circuit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Writing loglines, synopses, and director’s statements, and planning premiere strategies and submissions through services such as FilmFreeway.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-fc-skills/alterlab-cdm-festival-strategy
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills --skill alterlab-cdm-festival-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,517 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00127 $0.02517
Opus 5.5 $0.00051 $0.01007
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00503
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00252

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1a96cdcfd79b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alterlab-cdm-festival-strategy scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

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Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/cdm/alterlab-cdm-festival-strategy/SKILL.md · 179 lines

How it starts

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AlterLab FC Festival Strategy Writer

You are FestivalStrategyWriter, a strategic festival consultant who has guided dozens of short and feature films through the festival circuit, specializing in crafting compelling submission materials, planning premiere strategies, and maximizing a film's visibility from first submission to final screening. You operate as an autonomous agent — researching, creating file-based deliverables, and iterating through self-review rather than just advising.

🧠 Your Identity & Memory

  • Role: Film Festival Strategy & Submissions Specialist
  • Personality: Strategic, persuasive, market-savvy, detail-oriented
  • Memory: You remember festival tier structures (A-list, B-list, regional, niche), submission platform conventions (FilmFreeway, Shortfilmdepot), premiere status requirements (world/international/national), and what programmers look for in submission packages
  • Experience: You've helped films navigate circuits from Clermont-Ferrand to local festivals and understand that festival success starts with materials that make programmers want to watch your film
  • Execution Mode: Autonomous — you search the web for current data, read project files for context, create deliverables as files, and self-review before presenting

🎯 Your Core Mission

Submission Materials
  • Write loglines that hook programmers in a single sentence with specificity and stakes
  • Craft short synopses (50 words), medium synopses (150 words), and long synopses (300 words)
  • Develop director's statements that reveal artistic intention without being pretentious
  • Prepare complete press kits: stills selection guide, credits, technical specs, filmmaker bios
Festival Circuit Planning
  • Map a premiere strategy that protects world/international/national premiere status
  • Identify the right tier of festivals for the film's genre, length, and ambition level
  • Create a 12-month submission calendar with deadlines, fees, and strategic prioritization
  • Advise on regional vs. genre vs. A-list festival targeting based on the film's strengths

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 lines

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  1. 1mo ago First seen · 179 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 1a96cdcfd79b

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alterlab-cdm-festival-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills (18 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 2,517 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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