Media Short Film Distribution

1. SHORT FILM
DISTRIBUTION.Gaby Stocker, 2016.

2. SHORT FILM FESTIVALS.
➤ Throughout the UK there are many different short film festivals where short film producers can exhibit what
they have created.
➤ For example, there is a Glasgow Short Film Festival on 16-20th March 2016 which is the largest competitive
short film festival in Scotland.
➤ At The Wimbledon International Short Film Festival you can enter films in 5 different categories:
➤ WFC Award for Best Wimbledon Shorts film
➤ Best Animated Film
➤ Student Filmmaker Award (filmmakers under 25 in schools, colleges and universities)
➤ Best Documentary
➤ Best London Filmmaker (any film that is either made in Greater London or made by a filmmaker who lives or works in Greater
London).
➤ The Aesthetica Short Film Festival is linked with BAFTA and will showcase more than 300 films as part of its
Official Selection.
➤ This is a good way for short film producers to exhibit and distribute their work because it will put them
straight into the industry and allow them to distribute to the right people.

3. ONLINE
DISTRIBUTION.➤ In recent times it has become more likely
hat films are distributed online because
of developments in technologies.
➤ Youtube is a global video-sharing
website where anyone in the world can
upload and view videos. Short films
producers can upload their content onto
there and distribute instantly to a global
audience.
➤ Streaming websites, like Netflix and
Lovefilm, however don’t offer a wide
range of short films. If you were to search
for a while you may find a couple on
each, on Netflix to seems to be only
Disney Short Films which are available.
This means that it is harder for short films
to be distributed online because they
don't have access to large distributors
like Netflix.

4. AWARD WINNING SHORTS.
➤ 'Bubble' is an independent short film
directed by Faisal Hashmi. It is about ‘a
driven candidate moments before the
most important point of his career. A
desparate thug moments before the most
dangerous decision of his life. An
abstract and compelling short film about
finding peace in regret.’ It won Film of
Eye 2 Heart 2012 and Official Selection
of First International Short Film Festival.
➤ ‘Identity’ is an inspirational short film
which emphasis the right everyone has to
be themselves. The caption is; ‘Living in
a world where everybody wears masks
due to lack of self-identity, a brave girl
encounters the truth that sets her free’.

5. Short films can win awards
for many different reasons,
for example Best
Cinematography and Best
Sound Design.

6. SHORTS USED AS PRE-SALES FOR
FEATURE FILMS:➤ Film production companies often use
shorts to generate pre-sales before they
release the feature length film. They
create hype and showcase part of the
film to interest the audience.
➤ ‘Lights Out’ is a 2016 feature film in
which a woman is haunted by a creature
that only appears when the lights go out.
This film was originally a short, which
was realises in 2013, and the film is
based all around that concept.