Little heroes, little films, big awards?
Soon, the Dolby Theatre located on the Hollywood Boulevard will be stuffed with potential and less-potential filmmakers to win an Oscar for the 85th time in history. But don’t get too cozy with the elegant sound of “The 85th Academy Awards” because from this year and on, it is officially branded as “The Oscars”. Get...
A short history of shorts at the Oscars
Daazo takes a look at some of the notable milestones regarding live action short films at the Oscars. The Academy always did it’s best to award those great directors, producers who made those legendary “One-reelers’. We take a short look on the history of shorts for today’s big night. So let’s see in...
World of Shorts – Sarajevo 2012: One day at a film market
Film festivals and film markets are those events when your every-day office job as a sales agent turns into a lively and exciting fusion of business meetings, film screenings and all-day-long networking. How does a sales agent’s day look like in Clermont-Ferrand, Annecy, Berlin or Cannes? In the morning, before leaving the hotel and heading...
World of Shorts – Sarajevo 2012: The conquest of the Festival World
So, you have completed your short movie. Although your family and friends love your work, it’s time to screen it to the real world. Let’s bring it to the audience and professionals! You will need to build the credibility of your film by having it selected for a lot of festivals around the world. And...
World of Shorts – Sarajevo 2012: New Kids on the Block
What we have learnt during the past couple of years was the alarming lesson that future generations will no longer consume culture following the rules of now obsolete distribution companies. These new kids get by from numerous sources of information, avoid all the channels that are targeted at them and are tricky enough to find...
World of Shorts – Cannes 2012: Celebrating Short Film with a Big Bang
Based in the vibrant city of Bristol, UK, Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival is back in 2012 and coming of age for its 18th edition. Growing up but not growing old, six fast, furious and fun days of screenings, gala events, workshops and industry debates will celebrate the best in international short film and...
World of shorts – Cannes 2012: Dealing with authors’ rights
Rights are a key element of the value chain in the film industry. Economic rights are based on two fundamental rights: the right to reproduce a work and the right to communicate the work to the public. Shooting a film is a reproduction of the work. So are DVDs. Showing a film in a theatre...
World of Shorts – Cannes 2012: Ready to share with the world
Today is THE day when we welcome you on board of a fascinating and full of variety world of Lithuanian short films. A newly established Lithuanian Shorts agency asks for two minutes of your attention in order to reveal the secret of a country that was missing on the map of short films until today....
World of Shorts – Cannes 2012: Make a shortfilm – sell it!
A while ago you had a brilliant idea that triggered you to write a script. You developed an amazing story and started working on a short film. You invested a lot of time and energy to raise funds, find partners, assemble the team, go into production and complete the film in post-production. After many months...
World of Shorts – Cannes 2012: Visegrad Shorts on Tour project
It’s a rainy day in Krakow, but the main square is crowded with tourists and youngsters. We’ve just arrived in the city. Visegrad Shorts on Tour, organised by Daazo.com. We have no time to look around, the weather is miserable anyway. With full of enthusiasm, we walk straight to the hostel to meet the participants...
World of Shorts – Cannes 2012: Festival trends
There is no future for conventional cinema – at least this is what seems to be the message of last year’s short film juries at different festivals. For this issue of WOSH, we have decided to analyse and try to understand the success of four short films which won the main prizes of important festivals...