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Call for Entries
• short films • animation
• short documentaries • experimental
• television pilots • music videos
• video blogging • web series
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About Best Shorts
Best Shorts is an awards competition that recognizes the achievements of short
filmmakers worldwide. While it is not your typical film festival that screens
films, Best Film Shorts strives to give talented directors, producers,
videographers, actors, and actresses the positive exposure they need by
promoting our awardwinners through press releases, media outlets, blog entries,
etc.
Our competition gives awards not just for short films, but for other short
television, videography, and new media pieces such as: television pilots, public
service announcements, commercials, music videos, mobile advertising, podcasts,
webcasts, webinars, and so much more! As long as your clip is 57 minutes or
less, it is eligible for entry.
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Rules/Eligibility
- Submissions must be 57 minutes or less to be categorized as a “short".
- Submissions in other than English must be subtitled or include transcript.
- Multiple entries are allowed and each entry may be entered in multiple
categories.
- The entry fee is $50 per category entered.
- Submit on DVD in NTSC or PAL format.
- Written comments describing entries are invited.
- Entries will not be returned.
Download the entry form here ->
Entry form
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Winners are eligible to receive Best Shorts statuettes and stickers.
The statuette is a 24-K gold-plated achievement figure mounted on a piano finished rosewood base.
This engraved, distinguished achievement award is 13" tall and weighs over three pounds.
The Best Shorts statuette is manufactured by the company that makes the world's most prestigious and celebrated awards, the Oscar and Emmy.
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Our award-winning filmmakers share their
stories and lessons learned.
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Filmmaker Joe Greco
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Joe Greco:
Best Shorts Winner for Venus
By Yayoi Lena Winfrey
Just 21 years old, Joe Greco is already experiencing an amazing career. A
production major at the NYU: Tisch School of the Arts, Film and Television
Production, the native New Yorker will graduate in May. Yet, Greco is already
winning awards, including...
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Filmmaker Michael Pollak
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Rebirth of a Nation
By: Laura Lee
It was going to be a little student film. It was going to be
about seven minutes long, and it was never going to be finished. Now Death
of a Nation is winning awards, including Best of Show in the Best Shorts
Competition and premiering at film festivals. Not bad for
a project that director Michael Pollak walked away from, twice. Work on the
film began a decade ago when the director was still...
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Mother and child enjoying clean water
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Best Shorts Competition awards
its 2011 Humanitarian Award to:
A Drop in the Bucket
By Debbie L. Sklar
A Drop in the Bucket
is a 22-minute film that is not only timely, but also
helpful and lyrical in its message to reach across boundaries and help others
less fortunate. It is a film about young women finding their voices in the
developing country of Cambodia, according to its creator.
The film by Lauren Shaw is also
the winner...
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Filmmaker
Brandon McCarrell
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Viewers Treated to a Full Plate in Brandon McCarrell’s Empty Morning
by Cynthia Lechan Goodman
Most people buzz through their morning rituals without consciousness.
Sometimes it is habit that creates, intensifies and solidifies a kind of
oblivion to our lives. Other times it's a matter of the extreme pace of life
and need to get to the next to-do item; again without living and breathing in
what is actually going on with us. Thankfully, Brandon McCarrell has given us a
visually perfect, sensitive, deep, and thought-provoking insight into...
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Scene from
A Child of Light
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A Child of Light
A controversial short film about the struggle between
good and evil.
by Debbie L. Sklar
A Child of Light is a film that will leave you
guessing from start to finish.
The short is a classic story of good versus evil, but in
this case, a child of light versus a child of darkness by filmmaker Paul
Verhoeven of Productions Forever, based in France. The story centers on “Lucas”
and “Erwan,” and their time spent in a small home in a secluded area of France...
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Graffiti Verité’11
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An Inside Look into the World of Hip-Hop.
A unique documentary by Bob Bryan wins Best Shorts Award
By Debbie L. Sklar
The highly regarded documentary film, Graffiti
Verite' 11:Don’t Believe da Noize! Voices from da Hip-Hop Underground, is anin-depth exploration
of the process, thoughts, raison 'etre, creative expressions and paths taken by
some of the most prolific, innovative and outrageous Emcees, Urban Artists and
thinkers of our time. Not limited by the constraints of "commercial" standards,
these creators have...
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Archived articles/interviews...
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