Programming intelligence
at human cost.
Your festival, your slate, your distribution decisions — deserve better signal
Festival programmers, distributors, and platform partners are drowning in submissions. Quality intelligence — narrative read, audience model, festival fit — is locked behind expensive consultants or absent entirely. PACCS rebuilds that intelligence as a private architecture: explainable, auditable, and accessible.
Three structural failures.
Submission fatigue, no triage signal
Festivals receive 10–50× the films they can programme. Reviewer hours don't scale. Without triage, strong submissions in unfamiliar idioms never reach the panel.
Programming intelligence is priced out
Programming-grade analysis runs £5–15K per film through traditional consulting. Independent producers and small distributors can't reach the work that should help them most.
Generic AI is not curation
Off-the-shelf models lack the corpus, the curation logic, and the explainability needed to operate inside a programming pipeline. PACCS is purpose-built.
From bottleneck to signal.
PACCS replaces the unscalable parts of programming intelligence — first-pass triage, narrative read, audience and festival modeling — while keeping humans on the override channel for every decision. The system never replaces the programmer; it gives them more of what they're best at.