Our good friends at the Screenwriters network INKTIP have sent us an insightful interview into the screenwriter’s world with their interview with writer Kenneth Lemm;
Building a Career: How a Full-Time Architect Built a Screenwriting Career From Scratch
We’re excited to open our call for entries for our 2019 edition and looking forward to screening another 8 nights of fabulous short film in Edinburgh later this year!
Presenting awards and trophies for the best films selected by our jury for Best Film, & Best Animation & Best Scottish Short
AND
This year, we’re also excited to be programming films and film partnerships for our 2019 partners:
The Adriatic Film Festival
The Sardinia Film Festival
Fastnet Film Festival
Firenze FilmCorti (Florence)
Puppet […]
We’ll soon be opening our call for entries for our 2019 edition but before we do so, we thought we’d publish a quick look back to the 8th edition which ended November 10th screening one of the UK’s strongest short film programmes of the year, and we were delighted to have sold out 6 out of 8 of our screening nights at the Filmhouse and Summerhall!
There was a great atmosphere and some packed screenings, thanks to all […]
Our friends at the US-Based screenwriters networks have created a couple of guest blogs for us and the first of these is an interview with feature film screenplay writer Mark E McCann discussing
how he started in screenwriting:
Mark E. McCann’s Beautifully Broken Inspires On & Off the Screen
We’re excited about our new partnership with TAKE ONE Magazine , the film magazine from Cambridge and they’ve reviewed another 2 nights of the 2018 Edinburgh Short Film Festival, our programmes on Sat 3rd November and Sunday 4th November!
Reviews are by Jim Ross and Annie Whealing
SAT 3 NOV – IN THE DARK REVIEW
SUN 4 NOV – FRIEND OR FOE REVIEW
We’re very excited to be able to announce a new partnership we’ve established with the brand new Adriatic Film Festival,based in Pescara, Italy.
It’s wonderful that Italy has such a dedicated and enthusiastic short film scene and we’re looking forward to programming short films for their Inaugural event which runs September 28TH to September 30th and to inviting the festival director Guido Casale to Edinburgh for the 2018 ESFF.
The AFF Jury President is one of Italy’s […]
Firenze FilmCorti (Photography by Alice Leah)
Home to the Renaissance, Dante, Michelangelo, Galileo, Leonardo Da Vinci and more artists and philosophers than you can shake a crayon at, Florence the beautiful capital of Tuscany also hosts it’s very own Short Film Festival, Firenze FilmCorti which screens international shorts to Tuscan audiences every June.
The film venue Le Murate, is located in the former city prison and still boasts barred windows and sinister wooden cell doors line the […]
12 days to go for submissions to the 2018 Edinburgh Short Film Festival!
There’s awards for best film and best animation, our global touring programme
and some full houses waiting to see them.
We’re looking for the finest shorts known to man, so if your film is a contender then
now’s the time and now is the hour!
Max length; 25 mins
Any genre,
Any nationality
Deadline June 25
Graphic images designed by Federica Pugliese
The Sardinia Film Festival launches again on 28th June 2018, bringing around 250 short films from across the world to the lovely island of Sardinia.
With open-air piazza screenings, networking events, some quite glamourous award ceremonies and staffed by some very friendly islanders, lead by Carlo Dessi, the Sardinia Film Festival is one of our favourite film events!
We’re excited to be screening there again this year and looking forward to sharing some of our favourite shorts […]
The ESFF screens 8 nights of short film every Autumn at cinemas across Edinburgh, featuring the best International, UK & Scottish short films from drama to documentary, comedy to animation, experimental to web series.
We’re also awarding prizes for Best Film, Best Animation and Best Scottish Short AND we’re working with around 8 partner festivals and arts events to showcase our favourite shorts to audiences internationally.
But get your skates on – The FINAL Deadline is Monday […]
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