What Size Should Your Poster Be for FilmFreeway?

Export your poster at 945 × 1400 px as a JPG, under 10 MB. That's a standard 27 × 40 one-sheet scaled down to FilmFreeway's recommended size.

FilmFreeway's own help article on poster uploads keeps it simple: JPG or PNG, 10 MB or smaller, no more than 300 DPI, and roughly 1400 pixels on the longest side. It doesn't name an aspect ratio, so the shape is up to you.

Why 945 × 1400

If your poster was designed at the theatrical size of 27 × 40 inches, scaling it so the long side is 1400 px gives you 945 px across. Nothing gets cropped, and the proportions match the poster you'll print. If you'd rather work in a clean 2:3, 933 × 1400 is the equivalent, but you'll lose a sliver off the sides.

Since FilmFreeway caps DPI at 300 and the image is only shown on screen, don't bother exporting at print resolution. Pixel dimensions are what count here. Keep the master file at full size and export this one from it, rather than resizing a resized copy.

It's worth looking at your poster at the size people will actually see it, too. In lists and search results it's often a small thumbnail, not a lobby one-sheet, and a title that's legible at 1400 px tall can turn to mush when it's shrunk down. If that happens, the fix is in the design, not the export.

When a festival asks for more

The FilmFreeway upload is what gets your poster in front of programmers. Once you're selected, festivals usually ask for their own set of materials, and the specs vary from one to the next. Some want a high-res poster for print programs or lobby displays, some want stills and a horizontal key art crop for their website, and many run their screenings through other platforms with their own requirements. Eventive, which a lot of festivals use for ticketing and virtual screenings, recommends a 2:3 poster in PNG or JPEG.

Read each festival's delivery email closely and send what it asks for, at the size it asks for. Sending a 945 px JPG to a festival that's printing a program is a quick way to end up looking soft on paper.

Once the selections start coming in, add the laurels. Put them on your FilmFreeway poster as well as the master file, since the next festival's programmers will see them there too.

Next stop: IMDb and Letterboxd

Festivals aren't the only place people look your film up. Once it has a title page, your poster is the first thing people see on IMDb and Letterboxd, and each one has its own rules about size and how the poster gets there.

• How to add your movie poster to IMDb
• How to get your movie poster on Letterboxd
• What is the standard movie poster size?

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