ACTION THRILLER CRIME ADVENTURE FILM FESTIVAL PRIVATE ROOM

WHO THIS IS FOR

Action, thriller and crime are the genres most often made without studio money and judged as though they had it. A festival programmer compares your chase sequence to one that cost forty times more and passes. You never find out whether the thing actually worked on the people it was made for.

Private Room screens your film for a room in Tbilisi and on our Festival Channel online the same night, and the people watching answer the only question that matters in this genre: did it hold them. Tension, pacing, whether they stopped checking the time, that is what comes back to you.

We take action, thriller, crime, sci-fi, adventure, heist, noir and suspense, features, shorts and screenplays. AI-driven work is accepted and always has been.

WHAT YOU GET

If your project is selected

✅ A screening in front of a live audience in Tbilisi and on our Festival Channel, the same night

✅ Structured audience feedback: recommendation score, component ratings, written responses

✅ A written jury statement on the work itself, not a template

✅ Official Selection laurels and certificate

✅ A project page on our site with your poster, stills, trailer and the audience reviews

✅ A full Audience Feedback Report, free in exchange for a FilmFreeway review

✅ Announcement across our channels

If it is not selected

✅ An LSN Reviewer Note: a brief expert read on the work and where it sits

That last one is the part most festivals skip. You paid an entry fee and got a form email. We would rather tell you something.

HOW THE SCREENING WORKS

Films are shown one after another on the festival days, in a room with actual people in it.

Viewers answer three questions on every film: would you recommend it, how would you rate it, and what did and didn't work for you. The same model runs on the Festival Channel online, where the work is available to a verified audience for the duration.

Those two streams produce two separate awards, Festival Winner from the live room, Channel

Audience Choice from the online vote, alongside the jury's own nomination awards.

If nobody watched a project, it gets no audience data, and we say so.

WHY A FESTIVAL IS ATTACHED TO A MARKET

LSN is not only a festival. We run a distribution and representation arm that takes finished films and screenplays to buyers and producers, and we have been reading independent work since 2015: over 5,000 projects from 159 countries.

Genre work travels. A thriller with a clear hook and a contained footprint sells into territories where an arthouse drama from the same country never will, and buyers in that market read a project by its economics as much as its execution: what it costs, what it can be sold as, whether the premise survives translation.

That is the frame the jury statement here is written in, by people who spend the rest of their week pitching exactly this kind of work.

We do not guarantee that anything follows from it. Most projects are here for the screening and the feedback, and that is a complete reason to submit.

SCREENPLAY CONTEST

Private Room includes a screenplay contest for action, thriller, crime, sci-fi and adventure scripts.

Selected scripts get an excerpt published on the contest page: five to ten pages, or roughly ten percent, never the full text without your permission, alongside a Festival Opinion written by our team on the script and its potential. 

Readers download, read and vote using the same model as the films.

That vote produces the Readers' Choice Award.

We read every script in full rather than off a synopsis. In this genre the premise is easy to summarise and hard to execute, and the difference only shows on the page.