Your inspectors are film programmers, not compliance engineers. DCP Gateway is the layer that sits in front of your submission pipeline and catches playback-breaking errors before a title ever reaches your projection booth.
Indie festivals run on lean teams and volunteer projectionists. Manually verifying every submission against SMPTE Bv2.1 and Interop specs (encoding, audio channel mapping, subtitle tracks, metadata integrity) takes real technical expertise most festivals don't have on staff, and don't need to hire for.
No more manually opening every DCP to eyeball it. Submissions arrive pre-checked, with a clear pass/fail report attached.
Problems get caught and sent back to the filmmaker days before the screening instead of discovered live in the booth.
A per-title gate fee costs a fraction of the staff time it takes to inspect DCPs by hand, especially at volume.
Filmmakers upload through your existing submission portal, same as today.
We validate the DCP's metadata and package structure against SMPTE/Interop conformance. No full file transfer required.
Your team gets a plain-English status per title. Failing titles get routed back to the filmmaker automatically.
Every DCP that reaches your booth has already cleared the gate.
We price around your submission volume and workflow rather than a fixed rate card. Tell us how many titles you run per season and we'll put a number in front of you.
billed to the festival, per DCP submitted
Flat-rate coverage for your entire submission season.