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Festival deadlines in February 2010

Monday, February 1st, 2010

It is never too late to apply to these festivals. All have a deadline this month. Here we have our suggestions for February.

Krakow Film Festival
Krakow, Poland
Entries must be received by 11th Feb 2010

Krakow FF promotes the documentary, animated and short films. More than 350 films are presented during KFF every year. In 2007 a new competition section was held – for feature-length documentary films.

International ShortFilmFestival Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
Entries must be received by 15th Feb 2010

In 1985 the festival started under the title No Budget Festival as a small festival that mainly screened super 8 films. Over the years it grew bigger and bigger and is nowadays one of the most important shortfilm festivals in Europe that lures everyyear up to 14 000 spectators into the word of short films.

Funchal International Film Festival – Madeira island
Funchal, Portugal
Entries must be received by 19th Feb 2010

The Festival will explore new trends in art film; main category is the International Official Competitive Section for fiction features and shorts produced between 2008 and 2009.

Titanic Film Festival
Budapest, Hungary
Entries must be received by 20th Feb 2010

The aim of the Festival is to present a wide variety of daringly new, original and trend-breaking motion pictures from every possible corner of the world, be it dark comedies, emotionally charged dramas, genre films, or documentaries.

Munich International Short Film Festival
Munich, Germany
Entries must be received by 28th Feb 2010

MUNICH INTERNATIONAL showcases a variety of talent from all over the world by presenting new ideas, new stories, new visions, new techniques, new styles and new trends in filmmaking. These short films offer the rare opportunity to view a medium that encourages innovation and originality in filmmaking, thus giving something very special and enriching to the viewer.

Maremetraggio
Trieste, Italy
Entries must be received by 28th Feb 2010

The Festival main section, Maremetraggio, is a “Best of the Best” of European shorts, where only the winners of other Festival in the previous year can be selected. It has also the CEI prize for shorts from eastern European countries and a debut work section only for Italian movies.

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Young and Sexy – Short Films on Berlinale

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

As young filmmakers are trying out their skills while making a short film, their topic is often related to sexual life, problems, issues. Right now I selected a couple of films out of the competition, which  all deal with the topic in different, but a very proffesional way. They all manage to prove that sexuality is an important, living topic we should talk about. Especially for youngsters, it is probably one the central question their life. 

“Der Prinz” proves that it is possible to handle a heavy topic in a light, humorous way. Still it manages to create a very dizzying, uncomfortable atmosphere. The story of two adolescent girls in Rome, who meet an older man (introducing himself as a gay, royal family member) shows us a deep problem of sexually abused children. As one of actresses of the film, Jytte-Merle Böhrnsen pointed it out after the screening; “It is an important topic to deal with, because many youngsters are abused sexually, but maybe they themselves realise these after a couple of years. It is not necessary for them to take part in such a situation, but they do it, because they are curious, extremely interested in sex”. The film is directed by Petra Schröder.

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Der Prinz

The American short film “Dish” also deals with youngsters, but in a different way. Its sexual topic is set in a latino Emo subculture, Los Angeles. Israel, the main character of the film is interested in having his first sexual (homosexual) relationship. His and his friend’s sexual attitude emphasises a cultural issue also. The  lifestyle of their subculture, trough which their identity is built up is proposing the question whether its style and trends are able to overwrite all of Israel’s natural instincts. What is more important, his hairdo, or having sex in an uncomfortable way? Our hero, Israel is definitely is under a social pressure and it seems that he is not ready yet for sexual experimenting. The film is directed by Brian Harris Krinsky.

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Dish

The animation “Birth” is the second work of Signe Baumane. In her animation she manages to tell the problem of unwanted pregnancy in a humorous way, fully packed with creative, visual ideas, visual metaphors of situations. Baumane had a short film on the topic of sex last year in competition. Now she steps forward and she manages to confront and even provoke the audience with its graphical, and narration style. With every images of the film the director says that we should never deny to talk about sexual issues, because they are natural part of our lives. Although it is maybe not a fair comparison, but the film Jade (dir:Daniel Elliot), which won the the Silver Bear this year has a very similar topic. It deals with it in a more heavy, more “arthouse” way though. It was interesting to see the different approach the two directors had.

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Birth

by Zoltán Aprily

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Berlinale Short Film Awards

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

david oreillyThe members of the International Short Film Jury Khavn de la Cruz (Philippines), Arta Dobroshi (Kosovo) and Lars Henrik Gass (Germany) award the following prizes:

The Golden Bear to

Please Say Something

by David OReilly (Ireland)

A film which gave us lots of emotion, sensitivity and much to think about. A very humane story. With characters who made us laugh and feel sad at the same time.

The Silver Bear to

Jade

by Daniel Elliott (Great Britain)

The jury was taken by the individual drama of a young woman and by the condensed form of the film. A subtle story which captured us from its innocent beginning till its open end.

DAAD Short Film Prize

The Illusion

by Susana Barriga (Cuba)

Showing spaces instead of faces, this video diary courageously confronts the irretrievable past. A very personal form of cinema, which succeeds in painting an autobiographical landscape of loss.

Berlinale Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2009

Die Leiden des Herrn Karpf. Der Geburtstag

by Lola Randl (Germany)

A documentary or fiction – it doesn’t really matter. It contains a way of acting which is both intelligent and simple. A movie dealing with individual problems which are presented in artistic form.

And two „Special Mentions“ to

VU

by Leila Albayaty

The film illustrates the self-discovery of two women while providing the poetry of an urban space.

Contre-Jour

by

Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller

Defying convention and expectation, this abstract found footage film is a powerful sensory machine that lets the viewer experience blindness and see what is not there.

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Out of these awarded films we should really track the film Die Leiden des Herrn Karpf. Der Geburtstag, as it won the UIP short film award and got automatically nominated to the European Film Academy award.

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Winners of Nisi Masa Script Contest 2008

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

escapelogoAt the time when Europe needs to be built through concrete projects, the NISI MASA Short Film Scripts Contest is a unique initiative in its ambition as well as in its spirit. Cinema needs such event to develop itself on a European scale. The objectives we want to achieve through the contest are to develop short film projects at a European level and to create a network of young professionals.

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

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FILMINI 2.0 is About to Start

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

FILMINI 2.0 is an International short film festival in Sofia, Bulgaria. It strives to expose fresh authors and new forms of cinematographic expression and thus become a center for both stylistic research and experience exchange, unearthing newperspectives on this Seventh art.

FILMINI’s primary goal is to expose our audience to new cinema through the work of international filmmakers. In addition, the Festival aims to become a platform for filmmakers and cinema fans. Finally, through its various events & workshops, FILMINI ISFF hopes to increase the awareness, knowledge and distribution of short films in Bulgaria, discover and support new Balkan voices and encourage the experimental, independent and innovative styles of today’s cinema.

The organisers (Elena and Juri) are great friends of Daazo. And the new film of the young Bulgarian director Toma Waszarow is in the competition. We can’t wait to watch ‘Anything for You’! Till that enjoy ‘The Kiss’ – just can’t get enough of it.

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Daazo produced its first short film!

Monday, October 20th, 2008

tourSince a while we are thinking about how nice it would be to produce a short fiction films. Now we are proudly inform you that we produced our first short film, directed by Balázs Simonyi. Daazo works as a co-producer in the project since the script is co-written by Zoltán Aprily, one of the founder of the site. Of course Daazo sponsored the film financial wise too.  A workshop (Celluloid Workshop) being held every year in Hungary set the technical and equipmental framework for the production. The shooting took place in Miskolc and Emőd in Hungary.

The 12 mins long comedy film “Tour” is a tale about a man who dared to dream, a tale about a surveyor and hobby-cyclist, who believes that one day he will be able to ride 183 kilometer, just as pro’s do at Tour de France.

Well, the film is in the box and ready to start its festival circle and we hope it will earn many awards.

We will let you see a short preview from the film soon. Stay tuned!

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Clermont Ferrand: Deadline is Coming!

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

clermont.jpgInternational Short Film Festival in Clermont Ferrand is waiting for your film till the 15th of October.  The only way you are able to apply is via Shortfilmdepot. (We at Daazo are always happy to realize the tight relation between the ‘online world’ and the ‘world of shorts’.)

This film festival itself is maybe the coolest (short) film festivals, it used to say that it is the ‘Cannes of short films’. It was the world’s first International short film festival which originated in 1979. This festival which brings thousands of people every year (137.000 in 2008) to the city is the second French film Festival after Cannes in term of visitors, but the first one regarding the number of spectators (as in Cannes visitors are not allowed in theatres, reserved to professionals). This festival has revealed many young talented directors now well-known in France and even internationally such as Mathieu Kassovitz, Cédric Klapisch or Éric Zonka.

In 2009, the festival will celebrate its 31th anniversary and will present three competitions mixing film and digital medium, thus bringing greater diversity to the short film format – diversity being its basic principle, its source of uniqueness and vitality.

So apply, go there, send your stories and photos to the World of Shorts magazine!

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Pitch Your Short!

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

shortpitch.jpgAfter a successful first and second edition, the European network NISI MASA proposes to carry on for the third time the European Short Pitch project from 15th of February to the 22nd of February 2009 in Andé (France).

The aim is to develop a European production of short film through promotion of projects starting from the phase of writing, by meetings between scriptwriters/directors and producers on the European level.

Deadline for application is the 31st of October 2008.

Applications – to be sent at joanna@nisimasa.com – should include:

-a CV
-a motivation letter
-the application form filed (attached)
-a script (maximum 20 000 characters).

As the organizers say:”if you have a very good short film project you would like to develop, “European Short Pitch” is for you!

Find more info on Nisi Masa’s home page!

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Cinefest – Film and Fun Festival!

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

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The flourishing CineFest, International Festival of Young Filmmakers in September attracts thousands of film fans and visitors from the whole world. Housing in a brand-new cultural complex and the beautiful old Kossuth Cinema, the 5th CineFest provides an unique look into international young cinema’s landscape, screening features, documentaries, experimental works and animated shorts from all over the world.
Hungary’s freshest young film festival celebrates its 5th anniversary this year. This year CineFest received 280 films from 48 countries. Most of the films came from Central Europe, from the US and Germany, but we received films from Indonesia to South America. After a pre-selection, the top 67 films have the opportunity to compete in the official program.

At the end of Cinefest International Film Festival for young filmmmakers Péter Madaras, the programme director of the festival answered to our questions.

How would you define the festival, what does it represent on a map of European film festivals?
Obviously it represents something freshness, which comes from the manner of the festival “for young filmmakers”. So it is fresh, new, a bit different than any others, a bit extreme. Since many youngsters participating the festival it is really familiar, cool. Just as on your site, Daazo.com, short films are made by young directors mainly. As the festival is organized by young people, it is a great party for us too.

You receive many films each year. What kind of opportunities do you have for announcing the festival on international level?
The easiest way is to collect partner festivals, and cross-promote each other. We appear on their festival, have banners in their catalogue. And since we have to spend money sometime, we appear in Cannes, Berlin and some other bigger festival.

Cinefest celebrates its 5th birthday. What is the future of the festival? Would you change something in the future?
We used to say the festival is in adult age already! We don’t want to be an “A” category film festival, that needs world premieres, hell a lot of money and it cannot take place in a small city. We started as something different. We want to be a well know, big festival, which is accepted and liked by young filmmakers. It would be really great if filmmakers thought they need to send their films to this festival, because it was a serious milestone for them. Then we could have more and more exciting off-programmes.

Is there any kind of film what the Festival prefers? What is the image of the festival filmwise?
Of course we would like to shape a specific image of the festival. Step by step we try to set a permanent pre-selection jury. Naturally their taste defines the selection of the festival. Nevertheless we have more and more melancholic films. A good example for this is the awarded film “In Transit”, which is a melancholic, sweet short film without clichés. I think we have more and more film like that. But I think we are too young to have a real image, but in a couple of years we gonna have it.

See the winners of this year’s festival! Click!

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Awards of BuSho Film Festival 2008

Monday, September 8th, 2008

At the end, filmmakers received the awards of BUdapest SHOrtfilm Festival 2008. The arward fro the best short film went to the film “Traumatology” by Daniel Sanchez Arévalo. We are proud to announce, that Balázs Simonyi received the silver BUSHO award for his film “Original Lager“, which can be seen on our site. The bronze award went to the film “Medium Rare” by Stephan Stuckert.

More about the awards can be found here

Enjoy Original Lager on Daazo.com:

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