Waiting for the wave 3 – Loosenings
A month has passed since I reported for the second time on the reactions of film festivals to cinema closures – time to take another look at the situation…. Read More
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News Videotage Hong Kong publishes manifesto and invites in Content Lab for a “New Normal
The non-profit organisation Videotage in Hong Kong invites people to reflect on the consequences of the pandemic for art and culture and to take action. Against the background of… Read More
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News Film Festival Survival Pledge – voluntary commitment to loosen guidelines for the online presence of films
The US-American crowdfunding platform Seed&Spark collects on a list binding agreements from film distributors and festivals to waive for a limited period of time guidelines that exclude films that… Read More
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Awards Awards May 2020
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (D) || 18.05.2020 Großer Preis der Stadt Oberhausen: A MONTH OF SINGLE FRAMES, Lynne Sachs, USA Hauptpreis: BITTERSWEET, Sohrab Hura, India e-flux-Preis: BELLA, Thelyia Petraki, GR… Read More
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News We Are One Global Film Festival starts tomorrow on YouTube
The internationally positioned online festival “We are One” yesterday announced the program planning for its streamings from 29 May to 7 June. More than 100 films from 35 countries will… Read More
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News Croatian short films online for free
The Zagreb Film Festival in cooperation with the Croatian Audiovisual Center has founded the streaming platform croatian.film to make Croatian short film more visible. The bilingual platform offers a… Read More
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Awards Awards April 2020
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück (D) || 26.04.2020 EMAF-Award: UNTITLED SEQUENCE OF GAPS, Vika Kirchenbauer, D EMAF-Medienkunstpreises: UNTITLED SEQUENCE OF GAPS, Vika Kirchenbauer, D Dialog-Preis: ONCE REMOVED, Lawrence Abu Hamdan… Read More
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Report Waiting for the wave 2 – film festivals between shutdown and hope
A month has passed since I first reported on the reactions of film festivals to the official closures – time to take a look at the current situation. In… Read More
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Short Films online News French film history – temporarily free short films at the “Festival à la Maison
The French production and distribution company mk2 offers a curated selection of films in its own online magazine TROISCOULEURS in the section “Festival à la Maison”, which is available online… Read More
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Awards Auszeichnungen March 2020
Festival International du Film sur l’Art Montréal (CAN) || 31.03.2020 Award for Best Short Film: L’ÂGE D’OR, Eric Minh Cuong Castaing, F Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA) ||… Read More
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Report Waiting for the wave – film festivals between shutdown and hope
Since mid-March at the latest, cultural life, insofar as it is based on human encounters, has been at a standstill. Organizers of film festivals that were planned for the… Read More
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Topic Review of award-winning short films in 2019 – a brief analysis
Ever since 2008 we have published an annual review of the short film prizes awarded the previous year. Now it’s time to take a look back at the year 2019. Read More
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Awards Awards February 2020
Academy Awards (USA) || 24.02.2020 Documentary Short Winner: LEARNING TO SKATEBOARD IN A WARZONE (IF YOU’RE A GIRL), Carol Dysinger, UK Short Film Live Action Winner: THE NEIGHBORS’ WINDOW, Marshall… Read More
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News International My Darling Quarantine Short Film Festival
The online magazine Talking Shorts is responding spontaneously to the pandemic with an online festival: starting on 16 March, Talking Shorts will present a weekly programme of seven short films… Read More
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Awards Awards January 2020
Slamdance Film Festival, Park City (USA) || 30.01.2020 Documentary Short Grand Jury Prize: TUNGRUS, Rishi Chandna, India Narrative Short Grand Jury Prize: WOMAN IN STALL, Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli,… Read More
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Topic Service providers in the short film sector – vertical integration among online suppliers
For some time now, we have been observing a trend among what were once specialized platforms to offer more and more additional services that are not part of their… Read More
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Analysis Return to the cinema? Streamers shuffle the film industry and redistribute cards
Around the year 2000 the former Big Six, now Big Five after the merger of Disney and Fox, the six big Hollywood film studios, released more than 200 movies a… Read More
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Topic Short film festivals and video-on-demand Part 2: Collaborations with VoD providers
Video-on-demand is a viable option for film festivals that want to extend their reach by offering users anytime, anywhere access to films on the internet. In this second part of… Read More
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News Odense Festival Streams Short Film Programmes to Cinemas in Neighbouring Cities
Today at the Odense Film Festival in Denmark is the so-called “OFF-Dag”, a day on on which the festival broadcasts short film programmes and a television programme live in cinemas… Read More
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Awards Awards July 2019
Experimental Film and Video Festival Seoul (Korea) || 31.07.2019 Best EXiS Award: E-TICKET, Simon Liu, Hong Kong Korean EXiS Award: LAOMEDEIA, Youjin Moon, USA JungWoon Award: PRAYER TO OUR FATHER,… Read More
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Current Short Film Programmes News Filmland-Sachsen – Initiative to convey film programmes to rural regions
In response to the cultural loss caused by the death of cinemas in rural regions in Saxony, the Filmverband Sachsen together with the Saxon State Ministry of Science and Art,… Read More
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News Complete Works of Kurt Kren and VALIE EXPORT Digitized
Sixpackfilm (Vienna) announced that digitized versions of the films by Kurt Kren and VALIE Export are now available for distribution. The negatives were digitized by the Austrian Film Museum in… Read More
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Awards Awards June 2019
Edinburgh International Film Festival (UK) || 30.06.2019 Best Short Film: TELEFONUL (THE CALL), Anca Damian, ROM Euganea Film Festival, Padua (I) || 30.06.2019 Primo Premio Concurso internazionale animazione: AUGENBLICKE,… Read More
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Analysis Jeffrey Katzenberg announces premium short form video platform Quibi – Hollywood meets Silicon Valley
The rapid increase in the production of short video forms for mobile terminals is obvious. But most of what we see is user-generated contributions from amateurs. Hollywood producer legend Jeffrey… Read More
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News German film festivals found festival association
© Anja Köhne, Kassel At their first meeting on 4 July in Kassel, Germany, more than 60 German film festivals (list below) joined forces to found a film festival… Read More
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Competitions Exhibitions B3 und THE ARTS+ auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2019
[/caption]Die diesjährige Frankfurter Buchmesse (16.-20. Oktober 2019) stellt die Kultur in den Mittelpunkt des globalen gesellschaftlichen Diskurses. Gemeinsam mit den Vereinten Nationen (UN) und dem Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels startet… Read More
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News Stiftung imai eröffnet Videolounge im NRW-Forum Düsseldorf
[/caption]Im NRW-Forum Düsseldorf wurde am 18. Juli die Videolounge der Stiftung imai eröffnet. Damit macht das imai (inter media art institute) erstmals ihr einzigartiges Medienkunstarchiv dauerhaft zugänglich. Besucher*innen können… Read More
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News Disney introduces ‘experimental’ short circuit program and announces VoD release
In June, Walt Disney Animation Studios presented its Short Circuit program with three premieres at the Annecy Festival. According to the company, “The goal of this innovative program is to… Read More
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News Lumiere VOD database of European films on VoD platforms launched
The beta version of the first directory for European films on VoD services was recently opened in Strasbourg. The new index was created by the European Commission together with the… Read More
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Topic Short film festivals and video-on-demand Part 1: VoD initiatives launched by festivals
Video-on-Demand pioneer: Sundance Film Festival © Screenshot SundanceTV, 17/06/2019 Video-on-demand still makes up only a small share of the audio-visual market compared to other distribution channels such as television,… Read More