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The Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival<\/a> is the world\u2019s largest international festival dedicated to short films. Held annually in Clermont-Ferrand, France, the festival boasts more than 160,000 attendees and 3,500 professionals, making it the second-largest film festival in France after Cannes.<\/p>\n

With a host of activities surrounding the annual event, the lean staff at Clermont-Ferrand has had to juggle a lot. As their list of responsibilities continued to grow, they found that their custom-built proprietary content management system (CMS)\u2014which they used to build their original website\u2014was beginning to slow them down.<\/p>\n

In an effort to find an easier, more agile solution, festival staff began building sites with WordPress, and they decided to find a partner with deep WordPress expertise who could help them get even more out of the platform.<\/p>\n

Read the full case study to find out how Clermont-Ferrand’s staff has worked with WP Engine to build out their web presence and grow the festival’s reach even further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival is the world\u2019s largest international festival dedicated to short films. Held annually in Clermont-Ferrand, France, the festival boasts more than 160,000 attendees and 3,500 professionals, making it the second-largest film festival in France after Cannes. With a host of activities surrounding the annual event, the lean staff at Clermont-Ferrand…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":70299,"template":"","resource-topic":[912,915],"resource-role":[899],"resource-type":[914],"class_list":["post-70298","resource","type-resource","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nLights. Camera. 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