The 5th Edition of Go Short Film Festival kicks off today in Nijmegen
The biggest short film event in the Netherlands gets underway for the 5th time, presenting as much as 92 brand new shorts from all around the world. The ultimate short-count is 300, since Go Short features tons of films in various sections other than it’s competition which is held in three sections. For instance, Go...
Grand OFF World Independent Short Film Awards is now accepting submissions!
The 6th edition of the Grand OFF World Independent Short Film Awards is going to take place in Warsaw, from the 6th to the 8th of December, 2013. The festival just placed a call out for new submissions. Grand OFF accepts: - all genres - films made after the 1st of January 2011 - films which...
New is good: New Directors/New Films this March for the 42nd time in NYC
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has always been the most prominent place in the world to promote emerging talent. They made a revolution by introducing auteur cinema to the Hollywood-based audiences and they still do it, never stopping. As they say, before Sundance and SXSW(South by Southwest, a prestigious festival held right now in...
Friss hús- Vadonatúj rövidek a Toldiban
As you might notice, the language used below is somewhat weird. It’s Hungarian. Daazo is organizing a mini-festival at the end of March which will show brand new short films by Hungarian directors. The mini-festival will present more than 20 shorts, some of them made by first-time filmmakers, but we have “Fresh Meat” (the title...
Get the viewers to support, get the supporters to view
2012 was a breakthrough in the history of crowdfunding. The most popular platform, Kickstarter hosted more than 18000 successfully supported campaigns last year, which generated around $320 million by 2 million people. It sounds like an enormously large amount, but this is just a little bit more than a single Hollywood blockbuster’s budget. It shows...
Paths of Hate – Perfect content for the short film market
An average short films sales agent acquires 10-30 films per year. Let’s face it – the market is small so it is impossible that all of them will be successful. Hopefully, one manages to make at least a few sales for each title over a period of time. But sometimes you will have 2-3 titles...
How To Be a Festival Darling
Tips from Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival Festivals offer an all-important route to recognition and a wealth of opportunities for short film makers, not forgetting the chance to get your precious masterpiece screened in an actual cinema. The people behind the scenes at festivals are passionate about film and love what they do, despite...
Feeling the Responsibility and Honouring Traditions
Preparing for a new edition of the Tampere Film Festival. An interview with Jukka-Pekka Laakso. Tampere is the oldest short film festival in Europe. What was the most fascinating moment of the past 44 years? It probably was the first film screened at the very first festival. Personally, it is really hard to say. There...
How to finance my short film?
So okay, you have the idea, the script, the one and only. We – you and me – do know that you’re better than Fellini, Antonioni, Roman Polanski, even Claude Hooper Bukowski… But let’s prove it to the audience as well! So we need crew, filming locations, cast, coffee and many other things – in...
Picture This!
“We’re only interested in one thing, Bart. Can you tell a story? Can you make us laugh? Can you make us cry? Can you make us want to break out in joyous song? Is that more than one thing? Okay!” To be read with Hollywood bravura and Italo-American enthusiasm, Jack Lipnick, the studio executive in...
The Story Behind the Stories
We at Daazo are always very excited to watch the actual selection of the Berlinale Shorts. As we’ve been focusing on it for almost two months now because of the freshly printed and distributed World of Shorts magazine, we can say that we are quite prepared to get the idea of Maike Mia Höhne’s curatorship....
World of Shorts – the beautiful Berlinale 2013 issue
Daazo’s World of Shorts magazine is out now online and in print, centering around the Berlin International Film Festival. This issue focuses on the life of short film with insightful tips on crowdfunding and festival strategies. The art of pitching is explained, and Berlinale Shorts talents introduced. Creativity is equally important in raising and spending...
