The British Urban Film Festival (BUFF) was founded in 2005 to showcase urban independent cinema in the UK. It began partnering with other organizations and producing projects like "The Search for BUFF" reality show. By 2010, BUFF had established itself as a leader in celebrating British urban film and TV talent through its annual festivals. The Smalls Film Festival is a 12-year old London film company that champions independent filmmaking and has brought over 17,000 filmmakers together through its festivals and events. It works with venues like Calvert 22 Space in East London to recognize short films and their creators. Wimbledon International Short Film Festival is a small UK event that welcomes all genres of short films from 10

1. SHORT FILM
FESTIVALSCLARA BARROSO
LONDON FILM FESTIVALS

2. BUFFBRITISH URBAN FILM FESTIVAL
The British Urban Film Festival (BUFF) was originally formed in July 2005. They are known for being a showcase urban independent cinema in the absence of any such state-
sponsored activity in the UK. The organisation was set up by Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe and established as BUFF Enterprises Ltd. This organisation initially started by being
partnership with other organisations, such as: The Screen.Biz (UK) and The Hip-Hop Association (USA). This way the BUFF organisation started to gain some recognition as
British urban talent in the independent film & TV sector. The company began to become famous and more common to the audience when they released a project called
‘The Search for BUFF’ with offices in Greater London. This project was a reality-TV-talent contest designed to find people who ‘look buff’ who are then ‘appointed’ as
ambassadors to promote the annual British Urban Film Festival. It was all filmed across the UK, the pilot was screened at the headquarters of ITV in London’s South
Bank and made its Christmas Day broadcast debut on BEN Television in December 2005.
From this point onwards, was where the company started to gain more experience and develop further to a bigger audience as a festival
company. They started releasing series by the start of 2006 and mid year of 2007. From these releases, more cinematic work began to be
featured in the company within the festivals they would do throughout the year in the UK. By 2010, BUFF celebrated their 5th anniversary
for all their festivals they have marked till that day, with the screening of ‘Sus’, based on the original stage play written by Barrie
Keeffe and starringClint Dyer (who also co-produced the movie).

3. THE SMALLS
FILM FESTIVAL
In 2017, The Smalls Film Festival have celebrated their 12th annual film festival. The Smalls Film Festival is mainly known as a film company for international
celebration of discovering of multiculturalism and cutting-edge independent filmmaking. They were found in 2006 in London, UK and it has been claimed that
this year has been the best year for this film company in terms of film entries and awards given to many different people of different ages. The Smalls Film
Festival has been championing independent filmmaking and creative people for over a decade. With a different variety of different talents and also academy
award winners has brought over than 17,000 filmmakers together to create strong film content that is put in and recognised within the short film industry.
Some of the creative film industries from this film festival is taken to a different short film celebration at Calvert 22 Space in Shoreditch, East London. This
celebration has competitors from various ages for different short film genres, all film genres have entries but only the best ones go to Calvert 22 Space .
On this second celebration The Smalls works with Calvert 22 Space, the celebration has a structure that runs throughout the celebration, in
a specific order by begin with screenings, masterclasses, industry sessions, panel discussions and a succession of infamously lively parties,
The Smalls Film Festival 2017 will showcase the vanguard of short film. The 2017 annual festival was celebrated on the 5th September,
however because of all the success from 2017 and positive feedback. The Smalls Film Festival have announced that they will be releasing
tickets for another film festival that will be happening during January 2o18.

4. WIMBLEDON INTERNATIONAL
SHORT FILM
FESTIVAL
Wimbledon international Short Film Festival is a small film festival event (in comparison to the other three film festivals I’ve researched about) that
happens in the UK. It’s a very friendly festival for any filmmakers that want to put their work out there in the film and short film industry. At this film festival
they allow any short film submission that are 10 seconds, 59 seconds or 10 minutes long short film. They get to show their short film in the hall to the
audience that come to the celebration party. After they also get to have little talks with the audience and show prints from their short film to gain
audience and interest to their piece of work, along with the awards given to the short film winners.
Wimbledon Shorts goal on every event for short films is to be keen that in every showcase every filmmaker, either known or new to this
festival, Wimbledon International Short Film Festival welcomes your short film whatever the genre – it can be funny, serious, real,
fantastic, experimental, drama, documentary or animation. This is a way for your first time, your first film and being you’re on your way to
becoming established. This film festival brings everyone together to show the talent an capability of making a short film with the new use
of technology to make a good small budget short film that would be as highly recommended as a Hollywood film.

5. CINEMAGIC
Cinemagic is a short film festival that happens every year. This year the festival took place in London at the start of the month of April 2017. However, this
festival also happens in different places around the world. The other places that Cinemagic short film festival takes place are: Belfast, Dublin, Los Angeles and
New York. This festival is suitable for any age, rom younger age up to adult/ older age. Cinemagic also holds competition for young filmmakers under the name
‘young filmmaker competition’. They also take submissions from ‘main festival submissions’. This festival is a creative way to see short films, to learn more
about short films, meet celebrities and compete your creativity and talent against other competitors. This is a good way to grow your talent within the film
industry. Cinemagic is also known for being an award winning festival to portrays the magic of film, television and digital technologies to educate, motivate and
inspire young people through film screenings, industry workshops, practical master classes, filmmaking projects and outreach activities.
This short film festival also take entries to schools (nurseries, primary and post primary schools) to come to the festival and to see how it
goes, learn from films, see film examples sand all at the end they’re being educated about the cinematic world. This short film festival
takes in any short films, from younger people that are into filmmaking, while they competing with their films against other film creators.
This film festival is an inspiring film festival/ company as many young people get inspired from the work that they produce and the work
that they promote from other people. This is a way that this company is very known for.