International Shorts Film Festival (Washington DC, USA)

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International Shorts Film Festival (Washington DC, USA)

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About the festival

International Shorts is a year round film festival which screens selected movies at the end of each season (Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter). Best of the Festival films will be screened on January 30, 2021 at Angelika Theater, Union Market, Washington DC

All selected films for each year will be eligible for Awards for:
Best Short Film
Best Director
Best Screenplay
Best Climax
Best Animated Short
Best Narrative Short
Best Short of the Season (4 Awards)

 

About

International Shorts is a year round film festival which screens selected movies at the end of each season (Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter). Best of the Festival films will be screened on January 30, 2021 at Angelika Theater, Union Market, Washington DC

All selected films for each year will be eligible for Awards for:
Best Short Film
Best Director
Best Screenplay
Best Climax
Best Animated Short
Best Narrative Short
Best Short of the Season (4 Awards)

 

Awards & Winners

There are no winners yet for this festival

Terms and rules

Genre: Comedy, Drama and Animations are welcome to submit.

Time: We screen films from 30 seconds to up to 20 minutes (including all credits)

Completion Date: Films must have been completed after January 1, 2019

Language: All non-English language films must have English subtitles

Deadline: Early Bird February 28, Spring April 15, Summer May 30, Not too late July 15, Late August 30

Online Screener: We accept only Online submissions

Please provide a password if the film is password protected.
For official selections we will kindly request a digital copy which can be shared via email, dropbox, Google Drive or other formats (DVD is not needed or required)

Directors of selected films will be invited for a recorded skype interview to be played at the Festival (not required, but highly recommended)

For submissions made by distributors, please make sure that you have the right to screen your film at this festival as we do not pay screening fees

Full Terms and Conditions are available on our website.

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Categories and fees

International Shorts Submissions
Early Bird (17th February, 2020) $2
Late (31st May, 2020) $2

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