2012
NISI MASA organizes European Short Pitch The MEDIA-sponsored European network for young filmmakers NISI MASA will host another European Short Pitch in 2013. Young filmmakers between 18 and 35 years… Read More
NISI MASA organizes European Short Pitch The MEDIA-sponsored European network for young filmmakers NISI MASA will host another European Short Pitch in 2013. Young filmmakers between 18 and 35 years… Read More
ARTE Kurzfilmwettbewerb “Der kürzeste Tag” 2011 wurde der 21. Dezember als kürzester Tag des Jahres auf Initiative des französischen Filmförderzentrums CNC erstmals zum nationalen Festtag des Kurzfilms ausgerufen. ARTE nahm… Read More
Copenhagen Art Festival: Lars von Trier oversees a total cinematic work of art In 2010, the Danish Arts Council held a competition for a major event on the topic of… Read More
Streaming video technologies are becoming increasingly important, not to mention useful, for filmmakers and video artists. Technical improvements and advances such as cloud computing, larger data storage capacities and better… Read More
On 7 June 2012 the Vimeo Awards were presented at the second Vimeo Festival in New York. Hosted by the online platform, the event is a further example of the… Read More
After getting the impression that just a handful of short films scoop up the lion’s share of awards and honours each year all over the world, we now publish an… Read More
Three-year pilot project launched to archive Norwegian media art In 2007 the Arts Council Norway published the report “í… bevare det flyktige” (On preserving the ephemeral), which painted a sad… Read More
Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Habana (Cuba) Premio Mediometraje o corto de ficción: TELA, Carlos Nader, BR Further awards see: http://www.habanafilmfestival.com/ Dubai International Film Festival (UAE) || 14/12/2011 Arabic… Read More
Not long after YouTube was founded in 2005, people were already starting to download videos from the platform and present them elsewhere. This usually took place privately – for example… Read More
According to trend scouts on the Internet and in the features pages, 2011 was the year of the curators. Not the real-life curators, who have already had their year, but… Read More
Budget boost for MEDIA as of 2014 On 23 November the European Commission will make a first concrete proposal for the budget and form to be taken by the MEDIA… Read More
Argentina: Indiestribucion expands services The Argentinean online platform for short films “Indiestribucion” has added new interactive tools to make it easier for filmmakers to publicize their work. After setting up… Read More
The digitization of cinema opens up completely new possibilities for putting films on the screen – options once attainable only at a high price and with a great deal of… Read More
Constellation.tv combines social marketing with video-on-demand In early 2011 the video-on-demand platform Constellation.tv was launched – by its own account the “first global movie theatre”. What’s special about the platform… Read More
Internet platforms have been springing up of late that feature documentation and recordings of current events as seen through the eyes of contemporary witnesses. Most of these are editorially supervised… Read More
The end of an era – the legendary Experimental Television Center closes In 1971 Ralph Hocking and friends founded the Experimental Television Center (ETC) in New York. Now, after a… Read More
Gut und unter 10 Minuten – Kurzfilmverleih in Deutschland von Cornelia Walter Er mag ein Festivalliebling sein und seine Erfolgsgeschichte im Netz haben – eines ist der Kurzfilm sicher nicht,… Read More
BFI and Film London put in charge of promoting British film – no funding for short film for the time being In July 2010 the British government decided to abolish… Read More
A new niche has now joined the ranks of the many already filled by short film: the so-called “book trailer”. Book trailers are used to market books online. The idea… Read More
March 2011 saw the debut of “Oberhausen Films Online”, a new video-on-demand platform that functions as the virtual video library of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. On offer are… Read More
For more than 20 years Animate! in London has been the top address in the United Kingdom, if not all of Europe, for artistic animated film. Founded by legendary producer… Read More
by Stefanie Schlüter This text is the condensed version of a research paper commissioned by the International Short Film Festival (Oberhausen). The paper was presented to the public in a… Read More
Based on the impression that just a handful of short films scoop up the lion’s share of awards and honours each year all over the world, we now publish an… Read More
Film in the White Cube – Philippe Parreno and the Serpentine Gallery demonstrate how to do it right Almost ten years ago we began to publish here texts on the… Read More
Film Front, Novi Sad (Serbia) Best Film international competition: BIG BANG BIG BOOM, Blu (I) Best Film regional competition: ZENA U LJUBICASTOM, Igor Drijaca (BiH) Special Jury Award: GRANDMA HAS… Read More
Annual balance sheet presented on French short film sales abroad During the festival in Clermont-Ferrand, Unifrance presented a study on the sale of French short films outside the country. The… Read More
Exhibition: José Val del Omar at the Reina Sofia Museum The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte “Reina Sofia” in Madrid is devoting a show to the Spanish film pioneer José… Read More
Agence du court métrage tests distribution of digitised short films The French short film agency has been running its distribution network Réseau alternatif de diffusion (RADI) for 20 years now… Read More
Today, marketing and selling digital or digitised films online no longer poses any major technical problems, as filmmakers can draw on their experience with video and submission platforms. Tools for… Read More
Although Super 8 plays a very minor role today now that the amateur film market has long since been swept up in the wave of digitisation, there is still a… Read More