TIFF film-ranking/scheduling tool
I built this tool, Tix Planner, to help me and some friends prioritize what we want to see at TIFF and create schedules with a few features that I wish tiffr offered. Mostly sharing because I built it for my own personal TIFF planning and thought it might be useful to some others in the community.
tiffr is probably sufficient for most people, however, if you’re attending for more than a few days, trying to see several movies per day, and are interested in a good percentage of the lineup, some of these features might be useful.
The main things I wanted were:
- The ability to rank how interested I am in each film rather than only marking films as something I do or don’t want to see.
- I find a lot of the TIFF lineup potentially interesting and usually try to see quite a few movies, so ranking different levels of interest (like 1 being a must see to like 10 being willing to check out if there's nothing else playing) and makes it easier for me to decide what to prioritize when screenings overlap.
- The ability to save multiple/alternative versions of a schedule when preparing for presale, especially with how often certain screenings will suddenly go off-sale.
- A schedule generator that considers film rankings and preferences, such as prioritizing world premieres, earlier screenings of a film, or avoiding premium screenings.
- The ability to use the generated schedules as starting points and then customize them manually.
There’s also a section for posting tickets to buy, sell, or trade. It’s basically the same as r/TIFFTickets, but with a more structured interface than Reddit/Discord allows. I’m not sure whether that part will be useful or just create noise, so it could always be removed depending on use.
It currently also includes Locarno and Venice for anyone attending those festivals. Telluride and NYFF will be added once their lineups and schedules are released. There’s last year’s TIFF there too if you want to look through any of the scheduling features.