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Top 24 Film festival organizers based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 156 film festival organizers headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 842 professional contacts across them, including 94 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers film festival organizers headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
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The 24 largest film festival organizers based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Raindance is dedicated to fostering and promoting independent film in the UK and around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Watersprite Film Festival is the world's largest student film festival - supporting emerging filmmakers from around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “GFF is one of the friendliest film festivals on the planet with a wide-ranging programme that celebrates every corner of world cinema and provides a fantastic showcase for the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are a UK short film festival which aims to deliver inspiring events that are both bold and imaginative.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We open up forgotten urban spaces for the public to explore and discover incredible music, art, theatre, film, dance, spoken word, and more.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “11th edition: October 21-25th 2026 London Breeze Film Festival is a BIFA accredited independent film festival dedicated to providing a robust network of support to emerging…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Encounters is the UK’s leading short film, animation and virtual reality festival, operating out of Bristol.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The London Short Film Festival (LSFF) is the UK's leading short film festival, now in our 22nd year and a BAFTA and BIFA qualifying, internationally-regarded independent festival.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “First established in 1977, the Cambridge Film Festival has been committed to delivering high quality independent films to the widest possible audience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Kingston International Film Festival (KIFF) is an annual film festival taking place over a weekend in June and showcases a variety of films and documentaries by emerging British…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Glasgow Short Film Festival, the largest competitive short film festival in Scotland, champions new film talent by providing an annual showcase and meeting point for new and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (BFMAF) is an artistically ambitious organisation for new cinema and artists’ moving image based in North Northumberland on the English border…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 2010, Alchemy Film & Arts has been engaging its creative residents, young people, and visitors, in high quality arts experiences, generating creative, cultural and economic…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Belfast International Arts Festival is the leading multi-disciplinary, contemporary arts festival in Northern Ireland, with over 200 events from home and abroad taking place…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded by Katie Bignell (nee McCullough), Festival Formula is the culmination of more than 19+ years of experience strategising films for the competitive festival circuit.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The film festival for emerging filmmakers in Liverpool; showcasing new talent and facilitating industry connections.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “BIFA Qualifying Festival Bute Street was founded to create a platform to recognise and award local and international talents from the Film, Art and Musical backgrounds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL C.I.C.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The UK Green Film Festival is the UK's annual environmental film festival.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “MANSFIELD TOWN FILM FESTIVAL 2026 September 25 - 27 2026 #MansfieldLovesFilm #MTFF #MTFF26 Celebrate the silver screen with Mansfield’s inaugural film festival 2026.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Folkestone Documentary Festival was initiated by programmer James Collie out of the monthly Folkestone Doc Club and co-founded with Charlie Phillips to celebrate documentary in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Suffolk Short Film Festival is a new festival taking place in Ipswich on October 9th, 10th & 11th 2020, with submissions opening in January.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Good architecture, like good filmmaking, responds to the human condition in narrative form.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hull Independent Cinema is a charity screening the best in art house, world, independent and short film.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: film festival organizers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names film festival organizers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of film festival organizers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name film festival organizers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
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Film festival organizers based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 156 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among film festival organizers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “film festival organizers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names film festival organizers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among film festival organizers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 94 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names film festival organizers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many film festival organizers are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 156 film festival organizers headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Raindance Film Festival, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most film festival organizers?
London leads with 55 headquartered companies, followed by Edinburgh (5) and Glasgow (4).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 94 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 156 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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