RESEARCH: SHORT FILM FESTIVALS

There are more and more short film festivals as short films are normally made to display a directors artistic talent. I have researched London Short Film Festival and Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival.

The London Short Film Festival is now in its 12th year with their 2015 festival in January. The festival gives audiences the experience to see "UK's best short films." They encourage film making and for people to submit work. The festival must have submissions to survive. Another way they have made sure that they are known is through a summer fundraiser which was promoted thorough Facebook and Twitter. A further way that they make sure that people know about them is through their blog posts such as "LSFF's Philip Ilson previews two exciting and essential film festivals coming up in March and April."

 

Encounters is Watersheds short film festival is the UK's longest running comeptivive short film festival. It is a place to share artistic talent and its purpose is to promote short films. Encounters short film festival is a great place to get noticed and to showcase your short films or animations.

Encounters short film festival is funded by the BFI, The National Lottery Fund, Briston City Council and Media Programme. This shows that these festivals do need a lot to keep them going as today short films are not as common or as popular as they used to be.