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How can I change my film from saying "Dog Eat Dog" (2018/I) to just "Dog Eat Dog" (2018)?

How can I change my film from saying "Dog Eat Dog" (2018/I) to just "Dog Eat Dog" (2018)? I'm afraid this has messed with the chronological order of how my films show up in my filmography. Some films that have been made after this one are appearing before under my director credits on my page. I'm not sure what the (/I) means and why it's at the end of this film only.
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After searching for Dog Eat Dog
and choosing Exact Title Matches,
you get a list that shows the other titles of the same name in 2016
https://www.imdb.com/find?q=Dog%20Eat%20Dog&s=tt&exact=true

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https://www.imdb.com/find?q=Dog%20Eat%20Dog&s=tt&exact=true
Displaying 42 results for "Dog Eat Dog"
Search category:  All Titles (Exact Matches)

"Dog Eat Dog (I) (2018) (Short)"
Dog Eat Dog  (2018)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7969662/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7969662/reference
After a bank robbery gone wrong,
two criminals end up on the losing side of luck.

Josh Ceranic
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9608894/

Director: Short (2 credits)
Dog Eat Dog (Short) (completed)  2018/I
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"Dog Eat Dog (II) (2018) (Short)"
Dog Eat Dog  (2018)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8975666/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8975666/reference
A shy but caring handyman at a rundown Victorian-esque apartment complex
begins to suspect that his building might be home to a killer of women.

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Please see https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/title-formatting/G56U5ERK7YY47CQB specifically:
If two films have the same title in the same year we add a "/" followed by roman numerals after the year as necessary. For example, Twilight (2008/I) and Twilight (2008/II).
This is all that has happened here.  The presence of the roman numeral has nothing to do with any issues with the ordering of your filmography (see later below). 

As bderoes helpfully notes above, see https://www.imdb.com/find?q=Dog%20Eat%20Dog&s=tt&exact=true where you can see there are two titles which share this exact name released in 2018:

Dog Eat Dog (2018) (I)

Dog Eat Dog (2018) (II)

so the roman numerals are essential per the rules quoted above. 

Back to the ordering of your filmography at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9608894/ ... the reason Daddy Issues (2017) is listed above a 2018 title is because it has the production status of "(completed)" and lacks a release date.  You can fix this by adding details of where it was shown to the public in 2017 via the release dates section on https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7973930/releaseinfo -- adding the release date will flip the production status from completed to released. Titles in-production always take priority over titles which have not been released when ordering a filmography. 

Also on Dog Eat Dog, your release date on https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7969662/releaseinfo lacks details of how and where it was released ... we do not think you meant to imply your short had a nationwide release across all cities in the USA? 

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Hey Col! Thanks so much for the reply! Now it's showing Dog Eat Dog as finished before Daddy Issues and I'm not sure what was put in for it, but it now shows no red (completed) sign as the others do.

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And no, It had no major release, but it did have a decent festival run. It played in a few theatres for various festivals, but we are done with submitting it and are about to put it on youtube.

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I guess what I'm asking now is, I'd prefer either all my films to have the same status where they all say "completed" or none to say "completed". Kind of a weird OCD thing haha, but the order is still messed up. Dog Eat Dog is now first. Please let me know how I can fix this. Thanks again

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Oh it just hit me, I changed the release date last night, thinking that would act as the date of completion and it would appear after daddy issues. But now I see that it just changed the status, and what you said makes much more sense. So honestly, I'd like to go back on the status, and just put it as (complete) like all the rest. Or should I change the date to when it was first screened back in April and the Sarasota film festival?

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Ok. Will do. Thanks again!

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I mean, one last question. For each of my films, and for my future projects, should I make the release date, the first time they were screened? And would the premiere count as a "release"?

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Ok, makes sense! And when I go and put in each “release date” that should sort out the order and accuracy of my filmography right? It will also get rid of the “completed” sign next to it?