Short filmmaking is in the midst of a rennaissance because of the revenue potential offered by IPTV and initiatives like www.raindance.tv.
Screening at a festival is a sure-fire way to start creating a buzz around your film and your career. You are also likely to bump into short-film buyers eager for content for the dozens of fledgling websites desperate for movies. Short films are much easier to see on the web or on a mobile telephone than features (at the moment, at least)
Troll down this list, and click on the links and look at each festivals programming to see if your film would fit. And google them to see if there any satisfied filmmakers talking about the festival of your choice.
Finally, happy hunting. Don’t forget that Raindance Film Festival, now Britain’s largest independent film festival, loves short films, and ware open for submissions. Raindance is also a Oscar qualifying festival for short films.
The Raindance Team
The Top 5 Must-Submits
• Sundance Film Festival (USA)
• Cannes Film Festival (France) – for shorts under 15 minutes only
• Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films (USA)
• Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (France)
• Aspen Shortsfest (USA)
USA
• AFI Fest
• Los Angeles Film Festival
• Tribeca Film Festival
• SXSW: South By Southwest Film Festival
• Telluride Film Festival
• Seattle International Film Festival
• San Francisco International Film Festival
• Slamdance Film Festival
• Chicago International Film Festival
• Austin Film Festival
• St. Louis International Film Festival
• Cinequest Film Festival
• Atlanta Film Festival
• Santa Barbara International Film Festival
• Rhode Island International Film Festival
• Florida Film Festival
• Nashville Film Festival
• Hamptons International Film Festival
• USA Film Festival – for American shorts only
• Los Angeles International Short Film Festival
• Chicago International Children’s Film Festival
• Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival
• Ann Arbor Film Festival
• Athens International Film Festival
• Black Maria Film Festival
• New Directors/New Films Festival
• Gen Art Film Festival – for American shorts only
• Heartland Film Festival
• Starz Denver International Film Festival
• Mill Valley Film Festival
• Woodstock Film Festival
• Hawaii International Film Festival
• San Diego Film Festival
• Cleveland International Film Festival
• Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival
• Philadelphia Film Festival
• New Orleans Film Festival
• Stony Brook Film Festival
• CineVegas International Film Festival
•
Bumbershoot 1 Reel Film Festival
Canada
• Toronto International Film Festival – for Canadian shorts only
• Montreal World Film Festival
• Montreal International Festival of New Cinema
• Canadian Film Centre’s Worldwide Short Film Festival
• Vancouver International Film Festival – for Canadian shorts only
• Edmonton International Film Festival
• Calgary International Film Festival
Australia
• Flickerfest International Short Film Festival
• Melbourne International Film Festival
• Sydney Film Festival
Brazil
• Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival
• Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival
• Sao Paulo International Film Festival
Argentina
• Mar del Plata International Film Festival
Chile
• Santiago Chilean International Short Film Festival
Colombia
• Cartagena International Film Festival
Bermuda
• Bermuda International Film Festival
Japan
South Africa
• Durban International Film Festival
• Cape Town World Cinema Film Festival
UK
• Raindance Film Festival *Oscar qualifying
• London Short Film Festival
• Edinburgh International Film Festival
• London Short Film Festival
• Manchester International Film Festival
• Encounters International Short Film Festival *Oscar qualifying
• Leeds International Film Festival
Ireland
• Foyle Film Festival
• Cork International Film Festival
Germany
• Berlin International Film Festival
• Oberhausen International Short Film Festival
• Oldenburg Film Festival
• Interfilm Berlin Short Film Festival
• Filmfest Dresden
• Hamburg International Short Film Festival
Spain
• Huesca International Film Festival
• Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Films
• Gijon International Film Festival for Young People
• Valladolid International Film Festival
Italy
• Venice International Film Festival
• Turin International Film Festival of Young Cinema – for Italian shorts only
Switzerland
France
Greece
• Drama International Short Film Festival
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Poland
• Cracow International Documentary and Short Film Festival
- Wroclav Era New Horizons
Czech Republic
• Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Belgium
• Brussels International Short Film Festival
• Ghent Flanders International Film Festival
• Leuven International Short Film Festival
Denmark
• Odense International Film Festival
• AFIA Film Festival, Aarhus
The Netherlands
• Rotterdam International Film Festival
Sweden
• Uppsala International Short Film Festival
• Stockholm International Film Festival
• Gothenberg International Film Festival
Finland
• Tampere International Short Film Festival
Norway
• Grimstad Norwegian Short Film Festival – international shorts by invitation only
Have we forgotten anyone? Please add into the comments box below.
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New Zealand's awesome Show Me Shorts is Oscar qualifying: http://www.showmeshorts.co.nz/about/.