The Promise played at a film festival.
 It was followed four years later by the San Francisco International Film Festival, held in March 1957, which emphasized feature-length dramatic films
The Sundance Film Festival founded by Sterling Van Wagenen (then head of Wildwood, Robert Redford's company), John Earle, and Cirina Hampton Catania (both serving on the Utah Film Commission at the time) is a major festival for independent film

