Foyle Film Festival (Northern Ireland) || 29.11.2020 Best Irish Short Film: HERE’S LOOKING AT YOU KID, Michael Lennox, Northern Ireland Best Animated Short Film: KAPAEMAHU, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer &… Read More
Awards November 2020
Moths, Flickers and Fragments
– Sylvia Schedelbauer
Fragmentary memories act like a common thread, taking us through the works of Sylvia Schedelbauer as they oscillate between experimental and essay-film genres, and which could also be called “filmic… Read More
Film festivals: spatiotemporal expansion leads to distortions in the cinema and festival landscape
At the beginning of the pandemic, when cinemas everywhere were completely closed, film festivals only had the choice between canceling or going online. Since the relaxations for cinemas, i.e. in… Read More
Film Festival Corona Strategies – A Critical Look at Techniques and Formats (Part One)
Since the start of the pandemic, film festivals have admirably sought out and found alternatives in terms of what they offer their audiences, even in the face of losing… Read More
Five questions to Borbála Nagy
On November 25, Borbála Nagy was awarded the German Short Film Award 2020 in the category short fiction film with a length of 10 to 30 minutes for her short film LAND OF GLORY. We talked to the director in advance. Read More
Free video subtitling for online videos
The creation of subtitles in online videos are a requirement for accessibility and the first step for translations into other languages. As festivals currently cannot be held in cinemas… Read More
Awards October 2020
Semana International de Cine Seminci Valladolid (ES) || 31.10.2020 Castilla y León en Corto – Espiga Verde: ÉXODO CLIMÁTICO, David Baute, ES Castilla y León en Corto – Espiga… Read More
Reinventing a Festival – The GIFF in Mexico as a Physical, Digital and Virtual Event
The Festival Internacional de Cine Guanajuato (GIFF), Mexico’s largest film festival that normally draws audiences in excess of 100,000, should have been held in July 2020. But due to… Read More
Awards Septemer 2020
25 FPS – International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zagreb (HR) || 27.09.2020 Grand Prix: HOW TO DISAPPEAR, Total Refusal (Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf), A Grand Prix: APIYEMIYEKÎ?,… Read More
Experience with online festivals – individual experience reports
Not only has the film festival world turned around itself several times since the spring and still hasn’t come to a standstill. The Corona pandemic has created new festival models and variations in a very short time. At shortfilm.de, Reinhard Wolf has already looked at the development of international film festivals in regular intervals in the four-part article series “Waiting for the Wave”.
Now we would like to give the filmmakers who are directly affected by the situation a chance to have their say. All in all, we examine the topic from various individual perspectives: Read More
Submission Fees at Short Film Festivals
In the first week of September 2020, the Short film Festival Hamburg decided that from then on it would charge fees for every film submitted to it. In the short… Read More
Online Please Not Forever!
Some Filmmakers’ Experiences
As a commission member of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, I faced a new challenge with the Covid19 lockdown and the decision to hold the festival online and record… Read More
Experiences of a Filmmaker in 2020, the year of Corona
Animation filmmaker Caroline Hamann on her year 2020 Read More
The Film Festivals from the Day after Tomorrow
Anne Isensee, animation filmmaker from Berlin writes about her festival year 2020. Read More
Too much content – studies show how #stayathome influences media usage
The fact that media usage has increased exponentially during the pandemic should come as no surprise. Statistics show that Netflix & co. have benefitted disproportionately from this development. In… Read More
