However the winners can be hardly seen by a wide audience, you will might catch them on some other short film festivals.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

GRAND PRIX
BLUE SOFA
de Lara Fremder, Giuseppe Baresi, Pippo Delbono
Italie

PRIX SPÉCIAL DU JURY
ELLA
de Hanne Larsen
Norvège

PRIX DU PUBLIC
SINNA MAN (L’homme en colère)
d’Anita Killi
Norvège

PRIX DE LA JEUNESSE
EFECTO DOMINO (Effet domino)
de Gabriel Gauchet
Cuba, Allemagne

PRIX CANAL+
GLENN OWEN DODDS
de Frazer Bailey
Australie

PRIX DES MÉDIATHÈQUES
I LOVE LUCI (J’aime Luci)
de Colin Kennedy
Royaume-Uni, Danemark

PRIX DE LA PRESSE INTERNATIONAL SFR
ON THE RUN WITH ABDUL (En cavale avec Abdul)
de David Lalé, James Newton et Kristian Hove
Royaume-Uni

The 12  winners will receive a full scholarship to NISI MASA’s European Short Pitch workshop, that offers two unique sessions of scriptwriting, script-editing and pitching in front of a large panel of European producers: the best chances and industry professionals for your film.

This year marks the 8th edition of NISI MASA’s European Short Script Contest, organized in 19 countries simultaneously. Find out if you are eligible to participate and many other information on how to apply, as well as scriptwriting guidelines in your language on www.scriptcontest-nisimasa.eu.

For any questions please get in contact with your local contest manager, his email adress can be found on www.scriptcontest-nisimasa.eu under “Organisers”.

Stort’ – by Joris Hoebe, The Netherlands

Silent Consent - by Alessandro Bianco, Italy

Tripe and Onions – by Márton Szirmai, Hungary

Brei Brumm Bumm (Mash goes Splash) – by Elise Klement, Germany

A film From my Parish – by Tony Donoghue, Ireland

For All the Tea in England – Kerry Mcleod, UK

Pogacha – by Balint Mark Turi, Hungary

Pasta Day – by Elizabeth Rocha Salgado, The Netherlands

Fish Eye – by Margot Buff, Czech Republic

Semolina Halva – by Ezgi Kaplan, Turkey

Cum Pane – by Anne Linder, Sweden

Tropezones – by David Macian & Eduardo Molinari, Spain

Devouring Reality – Melissa Suarez del Real, Spain

Sa Cage – by Luz Diaz, Belguim

The Market – by Ana Husman, Croatia

Cravings – by Andreas Lindergard, Sweden

Ma petite cuisine – by Maryline Poux, France

La Torta – by Stefan Archetti, Italy

Mc Russia – by Andrei Tanase, Georgy Groshkov & Florian Krebs (Romania, Bulgaria and Germany)

Apple & Ei – by Ahmet Tas, Germany

Congratulation! For more information about the Matter of Taste project visit its official website: www.matteroftaste.eu

The 15 jury members announced the results the 22nd of November 2008 during the 4th edition of the One Take Film Festival in Zagreb (Croatia). The 3 European winners will have their scripts produced with the support of NISI MASA. They will also participate to the master class “European Short Pitch” in February 2009 at the Moulin d’Andé – Céci (France), the Centre for Film Writing.

And the winners are:

Scamps
Ülkü Oktay – Turkey

The Wedding Tape
Ariel Shaban – Kosovo

Furniture
Melissa Suárez del Real- Spain

Congratulation to the winners!

more info: www.nisimasa-scriptcontest.eu

More about the awards can be found here

Enjoy Original Lager on Daazo.com:

Topic of the competition

According to competition terms 10 selected creators/workshops will have the opportunity to make 10×1 minute long flash animation films. At the end of the almost one and a half month long process all animation films will be linked by competition organizers into one 10 minute long film entitled Pécsi Flash.

First round, there can be only ten.
Competitors may nominate their animation films made in the past five years. The best 10 creators/workshops will be selected by viewers and the jury. Competition parameters are defined at the official website, see here.

Second round
There is only one criterion: the opening and closing scene must be based on a venue photo and a 1 minute long music selection must be included, too. The music selection and the photo gallery of venue photos will be available on the safe website of the competition before the start of the second round.

The result of a total prize money of one million HUF competition, a ten minute long film entitled Pécsi Flash will be presented at the Hungaroflash Festival taking place from 17th to 19th October 2008.

Jury
András Wahorn artist, musician, head of the jury, Balázs Gróf graphic artist, director of animation movies, Márton Hegedűs graphic artist, director of animation movies, Lazin Igor director of animation movies, producer, Géza M. Tóth director of animation movies, professor of the Moholy-Nagy University Of Art And Design Budapest.

The main competition has :

411-Z (Dániel Erdélyi) Hungary
A barge on the Danube. A carefree summer day. Stew in the pot, and a little wine and soda to wash it off. Other than that, everything is strictly according to the shipping regulations, of course. But something might have gone wrong…

Good Trip (Javier Palleiro, Guillermo Rocamora) Uruguay
Sandra works as a collector of tolls. Her life and job are very monotonous. A phone call will break the routine, and she will be faced with a life changing decision. Sandra works as a collector of tolls. Her life and job are very monotonous. A phone call will break the routine, and she will be faced with a life changing decision.

De Moins En Moins (Mélanie Laurent) France
Lisa, a young woman, tries to remember moments in her life with the help of her doctor. Voices resonate, images intermingle… moments of happiness suddenly appear.
A few seconds later, she has already forgotten.
The disease progresses. Life fades away.

The Desire (Maria Benito) Mexico
Ana, a fifty years old woman falls into a depression when her husband leaves her. One day she decides to go out of this depression and starts changes from the outside to the inside. With the wakeness of desire she starts a process in wich she rediscovers her new sexuality.

Jerrycan (Julius Avery) Australia
Nathan, a kid who risks everything after he is bullied into making a life and death decision.

Love You More (Sam Taylor-Wood) United Kingdom
Summer, 1978. London.
Georgia sits in a Geography class covering her exercise book with graffiti. Her classmate Peter watches her with longing.
Georgia turns and catches him – but ignores his gaze.

Megatron (Marian Crisan) Romania
Maxim lives together only with his mother in a village near Bucharest. It’s Maxim birthday. He’s turning 8. For the birthday party, his mother will take him to Bucharest, to Mc Donalds. Maxim will do anything to meet his father who lives in the city

My Rabit Hoppy (Anthony Lucas) Australia
Henry’s ‘Show and Tell’ school project about a pet rabbit goes horribly horribly wrong.

2 Birds (Rúnar Rúnarsson) Iceland
2 Birds takes place during one bright summer night and follows a group of young teenagers on a journey from innocence to the stark reality of adulthood.

TCM Classic Shorts 2008 is open for entries!

Why Enter?

• First prize – £5,000; Second prize – £3,000; Third prize – £2,000
• Promotion of your work on movie channel TCM across Europe, the Middle East and Africa as part of a special on-air TCM Classic Shorts season in November
• Be part of one of the most prestigious and long standing short film competitions in Europe
• Judging panel made up by some of the most prominent names in the film and media industry
• International media coverage of the competition, now in its ninth year, held in conjunction with The Times BFI London Film Festival
• The 6 finalists will be screened as part of The Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival at the awards ceremony and on film channel TCM
• Past winners have gone on to win BAFTAs, make feature films and TV programmes, and screen their work at other festivals such as Cannes with the encouragement and assistance of TCM

More info and details: http://www.tcmclassicshorts.com/

For this 7th edition, the new theme is: Escape.

The contest is open to every youngster from 18 to 28, living in one of the organising countries. Each participant must write a short-film script of 20,000 characters maximum on the assigned theme, in one of the official languages of the contest.

In January~February 2009 the three new awarded scriptwriters plus 12 of the European finalists, will be invited by NISI MASA to take part in «European Short Pitch», a scriptwriting workshop organised at the Moulin d’Andé~Céci in France, followed by pitching sessions in front of European producers.
Then, the 3 European winners will be supported by NISI MASA in the production and distribution of their films.
From the script to the screen, NISI MASA is keen on contributing to the development and circulation of innovative short films from all over Europe.

All information about the contest can be found here:

http://www.nisimasa-scriptcontest.eu/

Application Deadline:
31. July 2008

The festival of Very Short is about fifty films in an international selection, screened in only one meeting of a little bit more than two hours. It is also a competition, with four prices awarded by the Jury, and of course the price of the public awarded by you. It is also screenings organized simultaneously in forty cities in France and all around the world as well…

A new edition is actually in preparation and the festival of Très Short is more than ever present in about 40 cities to propose to you the best and undoubtedly the shortest of the international audio-visual film production.

Trés Court Film Festival
Deadline for registration: 12th February, 2008

Find more info here: Trés Court Film Festival

Register your film here: Register form