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'Betting on Shorts' (BoSs) is an annual shortfilm festival which brings together cutting-edge venues (such as the ICA in London, the Point Ephém?re in Paris or KIBLA Multimedia Centre in Maribor) and filmfestivals (such as exground in Wiesbaden and l'Alternativa in Barcelona) across and beyond Europe in a unique shortfilm competition with a simultaneous screening: "More than a Eurovision of Shortfilm".Each year a themed open call for submissions is posted worldwide. 10 - 15 shorts of any genre (but under 10 minutes) are selected to take part in the competition, which is screened simultaneously in all participating cities. A local winner is chosen by a jury of critics, curators and other film professionals in each city. Once all juries have compared their results the overall winner is awarded glory, fame and cash. So the audience can have some fun as well, we invite everyone to bet on which film will win. Bets must be placed before the screening. But no worries: trailers of all participating films are screened in all participating venues and on the website a week in advance of the competition. Those who have placed their bet well, can win cinema tickets, dvds, books and the like.
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Over the years FIKE - Évora International Short Film Festival has consolidated itself as one of the most important artistic and cultural events of Évora. It presented a remarkable growth in the involvement of the audiences and the cinema and audiovisual industry actors. The main activity of the Festival is the international short film competition, which has relied in a worldwide participation. In the year 2007 were considered for selection by the Festival committee 2166 films, coming from 74 countries. In parallel, the festival promotes a number of meetings, concerts, conferences and activities to disseminate and training that count with a growing number of participants. The Festival activities involve around 10.000 people in a town with 56.000 inhabitants. Organized by SOIR Joaquim António de Aguiar, the University of Évora Film Society and Mixreel, is one independent film Festival that in close connection with local University and Municipality, promotes Cinema, Art and Culture as one Art form towards the audience. Located in the UNESCO World Heritage Town of Évora, FIKE 2008 – Évora International Short Film Festival is the only cinematographic event in the region of Alentejo and will have its 7th edition in November next, between 21 and 29. Taking advantage of a beautiful City and landscapes, the Festival welcomes all the visitors and cinema lovers for one wonderful cinematic experience.
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Set up in 2001, Hull Film provides the North of England with a regular programme of screenings and events that range from features to artists film and video. With preview screenings, workshops and masterclasses, Hull Film has become one of the premiere exhibitors in the region. Hull Film also presents GLIMMER: The Hull International Short Film Festival every spring. The largest short film festival in the North of England, GLIMMER provides a wide and diverse programme of short films from across the world.
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BANJA LUKA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
June 16-20, 2009
The International Short Film Festival Kratkofil has been established in 2007 as only the second international film festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina, after Sarajevo Film Festival. Each year in June it presents in the competition around 50 films up to 30 minutes long from around the world. Prizes go to best fiction, documentary, animated and experimental films, with a Grand Prix for the best film of the festival. In 2009, the festival will introduce award fund of 5,000 euros. In side programmes around 300 films are presented. The main side programme is Focus, focusing on the country of origin of the last year’s Grand Prix winner. The festival also includes a number of workshops and master classes.
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MEDIAWAVE Festival “ANOTHER CONNECTION” is an international film and music festival for and from artists, whose individual way of creation is independent of fashion streams; for whom technique is the means not the purpose; who attempt to create an individual film code set - whether they live in a minority group or in a less exposed part of the world.
Our geographical borderline situation gives us a chance to consciously mediate between the artistic movements of the Eastern and Western- European region - still rather isolated from each other. Our purpose is not to unify them, but to expose local values and characteristics. On the border of East and West, in the eastern border fortress of the old political and the newest/modern cultural and economical iron curtain, we attempt to reveal the products of modern age migration in film, a program supplemented by other visual performances (theatre, movement theatre, exhibitions) and folk-music, improvised and alternative music concerts.
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Festival is the holiday for all people who like cinematograph, not only for a narrow circle of the professionals. Festival which moves apart horizon of representations about cinematography. Festival is open to the amateurs of cinematography and is an opportunity for spiritual and intellectual perfection.
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MOVIQ develops and publishes Multimedia Documents for Science, Industry and Arts
on CD-ROM, DVD and Internet
Special activities in collecting and publishing international short films from independent filmmakers. Up to date there are more than 700 films on about 140 DVDs available.
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Short Film News is the first and the sole News Agency on short films and documentary in Iran and Asia who works independently and non-governmentally. We do not have a festival but we cooperate with nearly all the best Iranian and also some of European and Asian festivals. Due to some reasons - the most important is the massive young population in Iran and their strong interest in art activities - this trend is getting stronger and now it is more than a cinema or art process. According to the statistics, about 3 thousand short films, documentaries, experimental films and animations are made in Iran each year, some of which do not get the chance to be shown and judged anywhere. This is a noticeable number, especially if we know that Iran, as one of the first 15 countries in the world cinema, is not capable of making more than 70 features films each year.
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JiFFest is Indonesia’s premier and the biggest showcase for international cinema. Since its inception in 1999, JiFFest has been a strong pioneer in bringing independent cinema to Indonesia and has also been a catalyst for encouraging independent film distribution. The Jakarta International Film Festival (JiFFest) has been entertaining the audiences of Indonesian since 1999, with the goal of increasing in the level of film appreciation among JiFFest audiences, particularly young people, who would gain educational benefits from exemplary films they see at the festival. JiFFest is the biggest festival in the region offering a strong slate of foreign and domestic films, internationally renowned guest and riveting panels and workshops. With approximately 70% of screenings held for free, everyone is invited to come and share in the community experience.
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Muestra de Nuevos Realizadores (Review of Young Directors) Młodych Twórców Filmowych) sponsored by Cuban Institute of Film Art and Industry (ICAIC) is an audiovisual festival, presenting works by young directors, associated or not with the industry. In addition, the festival showcases screenings of national and foreign films. The event started off in 2000 as a review of youth audiovisual creation. Its main objective is to bring closer young talents and film industry, stimulate reflexion as far as audiovisual material by young directors is concerned and enhance the dialogue between different generations, which devote their time to the same artistic activity in Cuba.
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International Film Festival "ZOOM - ZBLIŻENIA" is a significant cultural event, one of the biggest and most important events of this kind, taking place in Poland. Jelenia Góra distinguishes itself on the OFFilm map of Poland, showcasing more valuable films and filmmakers every year, both local and foreign. The Festival’s objective is to show different cultures and cinematic languages, to offer the exchange of ideas, as well as present and promote independent cinema art. The confrontation of filmmakers’ artistic creations and the presentation of different phenomena, which occur in the independent cinema, is the main idea of the event. The festival’s formula admits various genres – fiction, non-fiction, and all kinds of experimental forms created with the use of a camera. There are no limitations as far as themes of the presented films are concerned.
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FDN, The Festival of Nations in Ebensee is the most important non-commercial shortfilm festival in Austria. The discussion between the international jury, the audience and the filmmaker after the screening during the festival is unique.
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CINEFIESTA is a production of The Film Foundation, Inc. and the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico, which are both non-profit entities. The first edition of CINEFIESTA was produced in 2003 with the exhibition of 24 short films from Spain. The last edition of Cinefiesta (2008) received 1542 short films from 95 different countries around the world, with 84 in competition. The Festival ran for a week in four different theaters. Parallel activities also took place at the Museum with a wide offer of workshops, seminars and and screenings of local shorts out of competition. Prizes were awarded by the Puerto Rico Film Commission and $33,000 was distributed amongst the winners. CINEFIESTA 2009 will surpass in number and quality our last edition, making this Festival one of the most important in Latin America and the world.
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The ALTER-NATIVE International Short Film Festival is one of the oldest film festivals from this region with specific goal of supporting and promoting regional cinematography and fresh filmmaking talent. The event started off in 1993 and it is organized in every autumn, in the first week of November. The program supports individual alternatives to the mass products of the media market, presenting various less-known styles and unique viewpoints, discovering independent self-expressions in film. ALTER-NATIVE inherently considers radically different genres and thoughts on film both valid and authentic. Works that can be submitted to the competition are original audiovisual works (fiction, non-fiction, animation and experimental films in all formats including new media) whose running time does not exceed 30 minutes. The festival has no participation fee. Films submitted to the festival are to be completed in the last 3 years.
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The Abuja International Film Festival (AIFF) is an International Film Festival event that was conceived to represent a peak moment on the film calendar of Nigeria and Africa. It’s primary objective is to expose the Nigerian movie industry to the international festival circuit with a view of allowing Nigerian’s experience a feast of top film from Nigeria, Africa and around world. The Festival is organized by Naija Film Festival Organisation (NAFIFO) with the full endorsement of the regulatory bodies. The Organisation also has other festivals like the WEST AFRICAN MOVIE MARKET which is solely dedicated to movies from the West Africa sub-region; the AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL which is dedicated to features from the African Continent and the ABUJA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL which receives and accepts film and video entries from around the world. NFFO is also into the convergence of African filmmakers at the annual AFRICA MOVIE SUMMIT, where pertinent issues affecting the continents filmmakers are addressed and tackled via workshops and panel discussions featuring experienced African movie makers who generously contribute their expertise across a range of topics designed to stimulate aspirant filmmakers and the public alike.
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