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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
© 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
[/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
[/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
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
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
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
The French illusionist and film pioneer Georges Méliès (1861-1938) was not only the inventor of technical film tricks, but also the founder of later film genres such as fantasy and… Read More
German audiences love series. Regardless of their distribution channel, on television or streamed on the internet, they are right on the top of the rankings, directly behind sports events. And… Read More
Fastnet Short Film Festival, Schull (Ireland) || 26.05.2019 Best Irish Film: DAY OUT, Virginia Gilber, Ireland Best International Film: FUCKING DRAMA, Michael Podogil, A Best Student: RECOVERY, Siofra Quinn Gates… Read More
On 4 June 2019, the Swedish Film Institute and Sveriges Television presented to the public the joint funding programme “2121” – the “largest short film initiative in Swedish film history”…. Read More