Short film festivals and film festivals

Short film festivals

Short films are mostly shown through short film festivals. Film festivals are a great platform for directors to submit their films and get film investors or people interested in seeing new and innovative films to watch your films. Film festivals are getting more and more popular and there are at least one going on every month so it’s not hard to find one to submit your film in. The only downfall that comes with being so many film festivals is picking and choosing what one you want to submit your film at and where it would gather the most views and feedback and you may get less people going to each event because there are so many around.

Often you have to pay to submit and enter a short film festival that emphasizes on your choice on what festival to enter in. Short film festivals are often more quirky and different to a film festival to some extend as short films are often more creative and uses more simplistic ideas but oddly different.

The short film festival has produced some amazing talent that have gone on to make feature length films so it defiantly have a success rate which is why short film festivals still exist. I would say that because many film investor go there to invest in peoples film they may pick only marketable ones and make there decision based on that which does make it tough competition.

Short film festivals are mostly for people to exhibit work and invest in certain products I would say that the investments are normally made in the director than the short film because short films are alike a show reel as it showcases the directors creativity and film making skills and people look to see whether that film makers style can be transferred onto a feature length film.

Film festivals

Film festivals are normally held annually especially the big events. But smaller scale festival happens frequently in many countries around the world.

Film festivals are for independent films to have a chance to be seen. A independent film festival will be completely different to a normal film festival in terms of films and how they’ve been shot or what messages have been portrayed and also the scale of budget. Film festivals have catapulted huge films and have also sparked of many actors and directors careers.

An independent film festival would normally cost you a entry fee both big scale and little scale, but some film festivals don’t require an entry fee so there films are often chose by certain region. Some film festivals require certain duration therefore if your film runs over a certain time period you may be ask to cut your film down by editing bits out. This is because it is a tight schedule and they want to show all there entries in one night.

In 2005 they launched the first ever online film festival.