Portfolio and showreel
Director reel website.
Lead with the finished spots, not a montage.
A director is hired on finished work, so the site is a short lineup of complete films, a page for each one, and a clear way to reach you or your representation. Here is what each part has to do, and how the profile page's four tags and its clean links build it.
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By uncompressed.io · Updated September 2026
The short answer
Five parts,
and nothing in the way of the work.
A director reel website needs a reel or one lead film, a small set of selected work, a page for each project, a way to get in touch, and your representation. Producers and agency creatives judge a director on complete films, so the page should open on your strongest finished piece and let every other film be one click from its own page.
The reel, or one lead film
The first thing on screen. Consider leading with your best complete spot rather than a cut-down montage, so a buyer sees how you carry a whole story from start to finish.
Selected work
Fewer films than you think. The work you want to be hired for next, grouped so a visitor looking for one kind of job finds it together.
A page per project
Each film on its own address, so you can send one spot to one producer without sending the whole site, and so the film plays large with nothing competing for attention.
Contact
Placed where intent is highest: after the lead work, not buried under the last row of the grid.
Representation
Who represents you, and for which territories or kinds of work. If buyers reach you through a production company or agent, their name and link belong on the page.
Unreleased work, kept off the page
Spots under embargo go to specific people behind a per-film password, not onto the public lineup.
How the profile builds it
Four tags,
one tag per film, and a link per film.
The profile page is not a canvas. Each Public film carries one of four tags, you set the order, and the page composes itself. Blocks for text, images, buttons, forms and spacing sit between the films.
Tag names as they appear in the profile editor. The counts in the right-hand column are editorial advice, not limits in the product.
The layout guide covers what each tag renders and how order reads to a visitor. For a director the rule is simple: the Hero is the film you want to be hired for, the Featured pair proves it was not a one-off, and the Standard grid shows range. Everything that does not serve the next job goes to Hidden, which removes it from the page without touching the film or its link.
Two settings are separate on purpose. Visibility decides who can open a film: Private, Password, Unlisted, Public or Embed only. The tag decides whether and how large a Public film appears on the page. A film has to be Public and tagged Hero, Featured or Standard to show up.
Per-project pages
Send one spot
rather than the whole site.
Every film already has its own page. That page is what you paste into an email to a producer who asked about one kind of work.
Name the link
Set the film's link name before you send it: the-brand-the-spot reads better in an inbox than a string of characters. Renaming it later breaks the old address, and nothing redirects it.
Pick the poster
Choose a frame from the film or upload an image. On a grid of Standard cards the posters are the page, so choose them as a set.
Set the player
The profile's player settings cover the progress bar, volume, AirPlay, Chromecast, fullscreen, skipping ahead and whether view counts show.
Credit the work
Put the brand and your role in the film's title, and the fuller credits in a text block beside the film on the profile, or on an end card in the export itself.
The player shows your logo and accent colour if you set them, and no platform branding, ads or related videos. Browser playback uses your uploaded export without another platform re-encode. Codec, device and connection requirements still apply. The guide to a portfolio website without Vimeo branding compares this with the platform alternatives, surface by surface.
Work under embargo
Behind a password,
and off the public page.
Commercial work often finishes weeks before it airs. The spot can still be shown to a producer, as long as it stays off the lineup.
Password
The viewer sees a gate before the player and types the code you sent. Changing the code signs everyone out of that film. It does not play in an embed.
Unlisted
Anyone with the link can watch, and it plays in embeds, but it never appears on the profile page.
Private
Nobody but you can open the watch page. Switch the spot to Public and give it a tag once the client releases it.
What a password does not do
When this is the wrong tool
If the site is more than the films,
use a website builder and embed.
The profile page suits a director whose site is essentially the work: a lineup, a paragraph, a contact and a representation line. If you need your own domain, written treatments, a stills gallery, press pages or a journal, build the site on a website builder you control. Embed Public, Unlisted or Embed only films from here, and keep password-protected spots as direct links, since they do not play in embeds.
Plan for storage before you plan the lineup. The free plan holds 5 GB and one film at a time, which is enough to try one Hero and look at the page, not enough for a full reel page. Paid plans differ by storage, seats and caption allowances.
Questions
Frequently asked
Can I put a film the client has not released yet on my director page?
Not on the page itself. Only films set to Public appear on the profile. Put the unreleased spot behind a per-film password and send the link and the code to the people who need it. Non-owners see a gate before the player, the code is checked on the server, and changing the code signs out everyone who had unlocked it. Anyone you give the code to can pass it on, so treat it as a courtesy lock, not a guarantee.
Can I embed my password-protected spots on my own website?
No. A password-protected or Private film does not play in an embed; the frame shows that the video is unavailable. Unlisted, Public and Embed only films play in embeds. If a spot has to live on a site you run, it cannot also sit behind a password.
Can I use my own domain for the director page?
No. The page lives at uncompressed.io/yourname and at yourname.uncompressed.io. There is no custom domain. If your own address matters, build the site on a website builder you control and embed Public, Unlisted or Embed only films from here.
Does the reel play with sound when the page opens?
No. The profile setting Autoplay hero (muted) plays the Hero silently as the page opens, and only the most visible Hero plays. With the setting off, the page waits for the visitor.
What happens to my links when I recut the reel?
Replace the file on the same film and the link, views, settings, embed and placement stay as they are; only the file changes. The poster is not replaced automatically, so pick a new frame if the cut opens differently. Renaming a film's link name is different: the old address stops resolving and nothing redirects it.
Put the lineup up and read it on a phone
The free plan holds 5 GB and one film at a time, enough to test one spot as the Hero. A lineup of several films needs a paid plan: Lite is $9 a month for 100 GB hot plus 100 GB archive, Pro is $39 for 500 GB plus 500 GB. Unlimited video streaming is included, with no per-view or bandwidth overage charges. Storage and team-seat charges are separate.
Sources
- 1.uncompressed.io pricing: plans, included storage and the free plan (product page, fetched 17 September 2026)