The Edinburgh Short Film Festival showcases the best British and international short films, shining a spotlight on high quality and new talent. For its 6th edition the short film festival is partnering up with the famous Shorts Shorts Film Festival, Japan’s biggest short film festival based in Tokyo. We wanted to find out why filmmakers should keep a […]
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Encounters Widens The Lens For Its 22nd Edition
New stories. New perspectives. New viewpoints. Encounters is widening the lens in 2016. Located in the attractive Watershed complex in one of Britain’s cooles city Bristol, the festival begun as the one-off Short Encounters in 1995. Except it wasn’t quite the one-off – Short Encounters became Encounters and has kept growing and growing ever since. Still a showcase for […]
Meet David Jansen, director of DÄWIT
An interview with David Jansen telling us the journey of DÄWIT, from the Berlinale to the FFL Agency. It’s been almost one year since DÄWIT premiered in the Berlinale Shorts. What a way to start! Since then it’s been onwards and upwards for the animated short, directed by David Jansen, which has screened in festivals as diverse as […]
Meet Benjamin Cleary, director of STUTTERER
We talked to Benjamin about his intention to make a film about stuttering, why he joined the FFL Agency and how he feels about potentially becoming an Academy Award winner… ‘It’s been a damn good month,’ Benjamin Cleary smiles. The Irish filmmaker is absolutely right. The great news for STUTTERER keeps on rolling in. Most notably, STUTTERER, his […]
Glasgow’s Matt Lloyd: Festivals are no longer the Gatekeepers for Emerging Talents
It all started as a short film weekend within the prestigious Glasgow Film Festival. Since then the Glasgow Short Film Festival developed into the largest competitive short film festival in Scotland and a place to be for the short film industry. The BAFTA-qualifying festival is currently open for submissions on FilmFestivalLife and we were curious who […]
Stop-motion in Cannes: An Interview with the Makers of ‘wHole’
To screen a film at the Cannes Film Festival is the dream of every filmmaker. For the team behind the stop-motion short film WHOLE, it came true. The film students of the Technische Hochschule Nürnberg created a surreal drama about a couple living isolated in a yurt on the Eurasian Steppe. After invitations from national festivals such […]
FFL Filmmakers Selected for Cannes Film Festival 2015
Cannes Film Festival is less than a month away. While we’re preparing our trip to the Côte d’Azur, we’d like you to meet the six FFL filmmakers who will be showing their short films in competition at the prestigious festival in France. The 2015 Short Films Competition: The 2015 Short Films Competition comprises nine films – a […]
FILMFEST DRESDEN 2015 Announces Full Competition Program
FILMFEST DRESDEN has selected over 300 short films from around the world for its 27th edition. This year the short film festival has chosen 71 films for their international and national competition, all in the hunt for one of the coveted Golden Horsemen. As FilmFestivalLife’s exclusive submission partner, all the selected films were submitted through the platform […]
From Florida to Hollywood – SUNSCREEN FILM FESTIVAL salutes 10 years
Sunscreen Film Festival turns 10! Big anniversaries demand some extra oomph, and the upcoming edition of the Florida-based festival has that in spades – parties, concerts and big-name stars galore. Not bad for a festival already with a MovieMaker magazine ’25 Coolest Film Fest’ status and name recognition that saw it expand into a Los Angeles […]
The Future of Short Filmmaking with Hollyshorts Film Festival
‘We’re always excited to see the new crop of films!’ Daniel Sol’s passion for short films goes seamlessly in hand with his work. As the Festival Co-Director of the largest short film festival in Hollywood he stands at the cutting edge of short filmmaking. Since its beginning in 2004 the Hollyshorts Film Festival has devoted […]
Interview with FFL Member Petros Silvestros, Director of ‘MIKE’
Mike has to give up his Saturday plans to take his younger brother Jack to get a haircut. Instead of going with him, he decides to wait in the car, still trying to make the most of his afternoon. As minutes go by and night begins to fall, Mike starts to worry. Why is Jack […]
7 Insider Tips For Getting Your Film Festival Career Started With FILMFEST DRESDEN
Filmmakers with a short fiction or animation film: it‘s time for the Golden Horsemen. With prizes and awards worth over 62,000€, the 27th FILMFEST DRESDEN is not only one of the most important, it‘s also one of the best endowed short film festivals in Europe. The FilmFestivalLife festival has a brand new prize this year […]
Meet Shekhar Bassi, Director of ‘NO LOVE LOST’
A muslim and a jew fall in love. You may think you’ve heard this one already, but NO LOVE LOST stirs up the plot by adding a third element to the party, someone who silently watches them, going unnoticed. Boy, girl, London. He is Jewish. She is Muslim. Together, they strive to be accepted by […]
Meet Dean Leon Anderson, Director of the Short Film ‘GRACE’
The short film GRACE by UK director Dean Leon Anderson is being screened at the Motovun Film Festival in Croatia (26-30 July). The 11-minute short film that premiered at the London Short Film Festival earlier this year follows Grace, a teenage girl – played by Natasha Kendall – who has a sexual encounter […]
BOFA’s ‘Crowd Judge’ – A New Way for Festival Programming?
By giving the international film community the chance to be part of the selection committee, Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival‘s Director Owen Tilbury and his team are going a new way with their film selection process this year. The idea behind ‘You be the short film judge’ is that anybody can be a part of the programming […]