On June 14 at 8 pm at Terasa Cărturești, during the Street Delivery event, the NGO Balkans Beyond Borders will present its annual Short-Film Festival by projecting awarded films from previous editions, and films created during BBB’s film workshops. Everybody is invited to tune in to the BBB Short-Film Festival. They can make a first...
FILMINI International Short Film Festival is celebrating its 5th edition this upcoming October in Sofia, Bulgaria. The term for entries is now open! Filmmakers are invited from around the globe to submit their short feature, animation and experimental films for the competition sections of the festival. Festival Awards: - FILMINI Grand Prix - Best Balkan...
A Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeumban tartott díjátadón gazdára talált a Tanár úr, kérem, én filmeztem pályázat Shopline által felajánlott három díja. A zsűri (Karinthy Márton, az író unokája; Mátyássy Áron, a Tanár úr kérem című film rendezője és Deák Dániel, a Daazo.com képviseletében) döntésének értelmében az első helyezett Nagy Luca Asszimmetria című kisfilmje lett, nyereménye egy...
“There’s nothing else I’d rather do” Jakob Beckman’s A Night to Remember is based on the idea of faux pas. In his short film with a powerful ambience, Beckman directs his actors with a sure hand for drama and tension in situations that make viewers sit on edge and flinch, a remarkable achievement for a...
“Never give up making films, however hard it may be!” Meet Wassim Sookia, whose sensitive and touching film Keeper shared the first prize with Jakob Beckman’s A Night to Remember at the World of Shorts film contest in April. · Wassim I am from Mauritius and I’m 37 years old. I’ve been making short films...
Do you also make “trickfilms” at home – just for your own entertainment? Time has come to present them to the world! SZAFT (Meeting of Free Animation Filmmakers), in association with Daazo, focuses on your home-made kick-ass animated shorts. You don’t need to have a whole studio staff to get your own animation films realized....
Call for entries for emerging filmmakers from Southeast Europe to participate in Sarajevo Talent Campus held within the framework of the 19th Sarajevo Film Festival is extended until the 7th of June 2013 at 5 pm. The 7th Sarajevo Talent Campus, taking place from the 18th until the 24th of August, is great opportunity for...
EURO CONNECTION took place for the 5th time this year at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market. To date 31 films have been completed from the first three editions of this co-production forum for shorts. Euro Connection shorts have grabbed selections and awards all over Europe: Golden Bear in Berlin, selections at Annecy, Locarno and Venice,...
Last month a well-known left-wing, liberal, pro-arts UK newspaper published a blog post dismissing short films as “derivative, soulless and humourless”. The piece, which complained of a lack of compelling storytelling, was a deliberate provocation focused on a prestigious British awards shortlist. Yet the author made wider generalisations and assumptions, such as: good filmmaking must...
So what’s your story about? Death and mortality? Stuck in the “kind of, but not really” mode? Confused? Questioning your own originality? The three shades of white scare you? In need of a trim, some polishing and a transformation? We might have the answer, or at least the European Short Pitch does: a first aid...
Through 7 days starting from May 15th, we are presenting the best 7 Pitch Pages which made the print version of our World of Shorts Magazine. We’ll have interviews with the filmmakers as well! Check out the previous ones here. From our neighbor country Romania, Alina Manolache’s project “Traffic Lights” made the World of Shorts magazine with...
Some Hungarian content, we are screening the winning films and we give out some awards as well./// Hogyan hat ránk Karinthy Frigyes? A XX. század legnagyobb zsenije, aki a pesti humor mestere volt, mélyen ismerte az emberi kapcsolatokat, megteremtette az irodalmi paródia műfaját és közben létrehozta a hat lépés elméletét is. A Daazo.com – European...