MUSIC DANCE SCREENINGS FILM FESTIVAL CONSONANCE

WHO THIS IS FOR

Music videos and dance films fall between categories. General festivals treat them as a curiosity slot, music platforms judge them by the artist's following rather than the work, and dance is usually documented rather than filmed. So the thing you made: a piece where movement and sound carry the meaning instead of dialogue, mostly gets watched by people asking the wrong question about it.

Consonance screens it for a room in Tbilisi and on our Festival Channel online the same night, and asks the right one: did it move them. Not whether the artist is known. Not whether the choreography is technically correct. Whether it landed.

We take music videos, dance films, concert and performance work, musical shorts and features, opera and movement-driven cinema, in any style. 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.

Music and dance work has an unusual market: rarely a sale, often a licence. Broadcast arts strands, cultural platforms and streaming services that carry performance programming license rather than acquire, and the terms look nothing like a film deal. Rights are the constant obstacle: music clearance decides more of these projects' futures than quality does, and most filmmakers find that out too late.

That is the frame the jury statement is written in, and it is also why we flag rights problems when we see them rather than after they have cost someone a placement.

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.

MUSIC CONTEST

Consonance includes a music contest alongside the film programme.

Submitted tracks and scores are presented to the same audience and voted on using the same model: recommendation score, rating and written response. 

Composers and artists get the audience's reaction in writing, not just a placement.