Review of award-winning short films in 2020 – 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 look back at the year 2020. Listing… Read More
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Report Short film festivals put their own history online
In its latest newsletter, interfilm, the organizer of the Berlin International Short Film Festival, announced the expansion and revision of back-looking festival websites. Shortly thereafter, the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg… Read More
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Competitions News Black Maria Festival is now called Thomas Edison Film Festival – online program and tour announcement 2022
For its 40th anniversary, the Black Maria Film Festival has renamed itself the Thomas Edison Film Festival. Based in Hoboken, New Jersey, the touring festival typically screens and discusses short… Read More
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Awards Awards May 2021
Fastnet Short Film Festival, Schull (Ireland) || 30.05.2021 Best International Film: UN SŒUR, Delphine Girard, B Best Irish Film: SISTER THIS, Claire Byrne, Ireland Best Irish Language Film: AN GADHAR… Read More
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News The Obamas produced short animated films for Netflix
Netflix announced June 2 that the Obamas have produced a 10-part series that will stream on the platform beginning on Independence Day, July 4. Titled “We the People” – the… Read More
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News Disney+ “Launchpad”: Short films as original content on demand
Announced in 2019, the Launchpad program is designed to serve as an entry point for emerging filmmakers from underrepresented backgrounds. It opens the opportunity to showcase their diverse perspectives… Read More
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News Cineuropa cooperates with Talking Shorts for short film coverage
In 2018, the online portal Cineuropa, by its own account the leading source of information on European audio-visual culture, abandoned its short film section without a sound[1]. Now, however, short… Read More
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Awards Awards April 2021
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück (D) || 25.04.2021 EMAF Award: NIGHT FOR DAY, Emily Wardill, UK Dialog-Preis zur Förderung des interkulturellen Austausches: 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD (13… Read More
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Report The Art of Coding – Demos Now UNESCO Cultural Heritage
The demo scene has been around for as long as the personal computer. In the time when computer casings were not yet welded together and it was possible to… Read More
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News Report Norwegian online video art archive handed over to Nasjonalmuseet (Oslo)
In 2012, the organization PNEK (Production Network for Electronic Art) on behalf of the Norwegian Ministry of Culture launched the pilot project Norsk Videokunstarkivet for archiving Norwegian media art…. Read More
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Awards Awards March 2021
Women’s Voices Now Online Festival, Los Angeles (USA) || 31.03.2021 Best Documentary Short: RITU GOES ONLINE, Vrinda Samartha, India Best Social-Change Documentary Short: LUPITA, Monica Wise Robles, Mex /… Read More
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News More festivals open VoD platforms for streaming independently from festival date
The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival PÖFF launched the kino.poff.ee platform in March, which operates year-round, offering films for a fee. Every month, a new selection of films from… Read More
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Report Online Aggregators Boom During Pandemic Crisis at Festivals
Long before the pandemic, film festivals already began to outsource tasks they had dealt with internally prior to this and contract work out to external IT service providers. As digitalisation… Read More
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Awards Awards February 2021
Preis der deutschen Filmkritik (German Film Critics’ Award) (D) || 22.02.2021 Best Short Film: FOR REASONS UNKNOWN, Tom Otte, D Best Experimental Film: UNTITLED SEQUENCE OF GAPS, Vika Kirchenbauer,… Read More
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News Nippon Connection – New Database and Video on Demand
The film festival Nippon Connection (Frankfurt) published its own film database of Japanese film, which is publicly available. With around 2080 entries, NIPPON ARCHIVE contains all the films shown… Read More
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Topic Film Festival Corona Strategies (part two) – Online Streaming versus Theatre Screenings
Film festivals generally serve two main functions. They showcase new films in a festive setting and facilitate encounters between the industry and the audience. Under pandemic conditions, neither is possible… Read More
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Awards Awards January 2021
Premiers Plans, Festival d’Angers (F) || 31.01.2021 Grand Prix Européen: STAYING (Aros Mae), Zillah Bowes, UK Grand Prix français: TRONA PINNACLES, Mathilde Parquet, F Grand Prix films d’ecoles: I WANT… Read More
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News Short Films on Demand – Locarno Shorts Weeks 2021
For the third time, not just since all film festivals went online, the Locarno Film Festival presents its Shorts Weeks. Until the end of February, short films from the program… Read More
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Awards Awards December 2020
FilmFestival Cottbus – Festival of East European Cinema (D) || 31.12.2020 Main Prize: GREETINGS FROM NIGERIA, Peter Hoferica, Slovakia Special Prize: EGGSHELLS, Slava Doytcheva, BG DOCUMENTA MADRID (ES)… Read More
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Awards Awards November 2020
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
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Fait Divers Last chance: Before the end of Flashplayer, media artist Timo Kahlen unlocks Net Art animations
As announced in 2017, Adobe will stop distributing and updating its Flash Player at the end of this year. Internet browser vendors are following suit more or less simultaneously,… Read More
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Analysis 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
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Topic 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
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practical advice 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
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Awards 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
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Report 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
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Awards 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
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Analysis 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
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Awards Awards August 2020
Festival Internacional de curtas-metragens de São Paulo (BR) || 30.08.2020 Best film in the Brazilian Competitive Exhibition: PERIFERICU, Nay Mendl, Vita Pereira, Rosa Caldeira & Stheffany Fernanda, BR Brazilian… Read More
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Report Waiting for the wave 4 – hoping for normality
Two months have passed since I last reported on the reactions of film festivals to the closure of cinemas. As expected, the relaxation that began for cinemas in… Read More