Short Film Festivals

Short film festivals are one of the only ways where short films are shown on the big screen to big audiences. Short film festivals have a huge impact on the short film industry as they can raise the profile of aspiring directors, many of the big film production companies send out talent scouts to find the next big star.
One of the most famous short film festivals in the world is called 'Encounters'. Encounters is a short film festival which celebrates new talent in filmmaking and provides a platform for aspiring filmmakers to showcase there work. Encounters began back in 1995 to celebrate 100 years of cinema, back then the festival was called brief encounters and was originally planned to be a one of event. But since 1995 the festival has grown and now has a huge following across the world. In 2001 the short film festival was joined by animated encounters which showed animated short films. Animated encounters was the first short film festival for animation, which celebrated, creativity, talent and skills of animators. Encounters film festival usually runs during November each year and takes place in Bristol.

Short film festivals like encounters have a huge impact on the short film industry, film festivals allow directors to get there work out there. It allows there work to be seen by big audiences of people who are passionate about film as they are. Short film festivals have been a huge success across the world. In 2007 and 2008 encounters sold out all spaces, and had nearly double the amount of film submissions on there previous year.
Other short film festivals include, The London Short Film Festival and The LA Short fest.