Either remove the row after the festival wraps, or filter on the endDate column in the page group so SleekRank only generates URLs for upcoming festivals. SleekRank serves whatever is in the cached row, so the source is the source of truth. Past festivals drop from the sitemap on the next cache refresh, and some film publications keep an archive page group that intentionally shows past festivals for retrospectives and award-winner historical SEO.

Add a submissionDeadline column with an ISO date and render it as a countdown or static date pill via tag mapping. Filmmakers search by submission window all the time, so making the deadline scannable above the fold lifts dwell time and conversion to the submission platform. Some operators render two rows of dates: festival run dates and submission close dates.

Yes. Add a Festival or Event JSON-LD script to the base template and use selector or tag mappings to inject row values into the script tag for name, startDate, endDate, location, organizer, and offers. Google reads the structured data and can show event rich results for festival-name searches, which lifts CTR on date-specific queries.

Run a second page group with a small genres sheet covering documentary, short, horror, fantasy, indie, experimental, and use a list mapping to render the matching festivals on each genre page. The same festivals feed drives per-festival pages and per-genre roll-ups, so a new documentary festival appears on /film-festivals/documentary/ on the next cache refresh.

Add a filmFreewayUrl column and inject it into the submit button via a selector mapping. Most filmmakers submit through FilmFreeway or Withoutabox, and routing the button straight to the festival's submission page on those platforms is what users expect. SleekRank does not host the submission flow itself; it only renders the landing page.

Add a jury column with comma-separated names and render via list mapping. For deeper profiles, run a parallel /jury/{slug}/ page group with full bios and link from each festival page to matching jury profiles. This is the same source-of-truth approach festival editorial teams already use when they maintain jury spreadsheets internally.

Add a format column with values like in-person, online, or hybrid, and render a format pill on the page. For hybrid festivals, surface streaming dates and physical screening dates separately. The hybridFormat column drives the badge, and the description text explains the access model for each festival.

Yes. Run a separate archive page group that filters on endDate before today and renders /film-festivals/archive/{year}/ pages. Festival history matters for award-winner SEO, jury alumni searches, and historical research; the archive group keeps that surface live without cluttering the upcoming-festivals collection page.