GalleryESFF 2017 HIGHLIGHTS
With the opening night of the 2018 Edinburgh Short Film Festival on Friday October 26th, here’s a brief tour of some of the highlights of our 2017 edition!
The lovely film shots are by Alexandra Person
GalleryPreview of the 8th Edinburgh Short Film Festival
The Edinburgh Short Film Festival once again is bringing some of the world’s best short films to Edinburgh and is pretty much your only chance to see one of the UK’s strongest short film programmes.
We’re screening 29 award winners, including the Audience Award winner from Cannes and Sundance Film Festivals, the Tribeca Grand Jury Award winners and there’s the best short films from SXSW, Aspen Shortfest, Palm Springs International Shortfest, London and Brussels Short Film […]
Edinburgh Shorts Interviewed at Florence
We’re delighted that Marino and the team at the wonderful Firenze FilmCorti have published a short interview with us when we screened an ESFF programme at the Florence short film festival in June!
FLORENCE’S FILMCORTI INTERVIEWS EDINBURGH SHORTS
GalleryESFF 2018 PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED!
We’re excited to be able to announce our official programme for the 2018 Edinburgh Short Film Festival!
The ESFF 2018 is your one chance to see one of the strongest short film programmes in the UK.
With 26 UK Premieres, 7 European Premieres and no less than 28 award-winning short films, our 2018 programme is one of our strongest yet, and packed with some of the best films from Festivals overseas, including Tribeca, Cannes, Sundance, Annecy, and SXSW […]
GalleryEdinburgh Shorts Launch Party @ Scalarama
We had a blast at last night’s Edinburgh Short Film Festival launch Party!
It was a real honour to be Scalarama Edinburgh’s Opening event with a turnout well in excess of 70+ it was a busy
and fun night at the ESFF Garden Cinema! Thanks so much to Ieva Rotomskyte of Edinburgh Scalarama and of course the
amazing Fernando from the Tupiniquim Brazilian Pancake kiosk for their hard work in pulling off the event!
Thanks also to everyone who […]
ESFF Film-Maker Interviews #8 – Yulia Kovanova
The 2018 Edinburgh Short Film Festival programme will be announced imminently in the meantime, here’s another in our series of film-maker interviews, this time with BAFTA nominated film-maker and artist, Yulia Kovanova about her film PLASTIC MAN screened at the 2017 Edinburgh Short Film Festival. Plastic Man follows the work of Ross McLean – environmental artist who, breaking from daily reality, transforms into Plastic Man! For a flavour of the film see the trailer below the interview:
PLASTIC […]
ESFF Film-Maker Interviews #7 – Roozbeh Misaghi
We’ll be announcing the line-up for the 2018 Edinburgh Short Film Festival very soon, in the meantime we’re delighted to publish an interview with the talented Iranian film-maker Roozbeh Misaghi, who’s short film TURQUOISE was screened at the 2017 Edinburgh Short Film Festival!
We talked to Roozbeh about making the film which depicts life in a rural Iranian village turned upside down by a rumour that there is a concealed treasure box, hidden somewhere in the […]
GalleryESFF Filmmaker Interview #6 – Elias Sommer
We’ve had a record-breaking year for submissions and while we’re still watching and assessing all 1600+ entries for this year, we thought it was a good time to publish our 6th Filmmaker Interview, with Elais Sommer. Elias is a Scottish-based filmmaker, whose comedy DENTURES OF DEATH, was screened at last year’s ESFF.
A darkly comic tale that follows the nightmare a young boy endures when he stays with his Granddad. It’s a strong comedy with some […]
ESFF Announces Official Media Partners for 2018 – Take One Cinema Magazine!
We’re excited to announce that our official media partners for the 2018 Edinburgh Short Film Festival will be Take One Magazine, an Independent Film magazine and website, covering the best in independent and festival cinema year round!
Take One’s inaugural print edition was in 2011, having grown out of the Cambridge Film Festival, they now cover film festivals Internationally, and around the UK and we’re delighted to be working with them on our 2018 edition!
Take One […]
Firenze FilmCorti 2018
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 […]