The Academy Award®-Qualifying Indy Shorts International Film Festival (Indy Shorts) returns to Indianapolis for its seventh edition, running July 23-28, 2024. The lineup includes titles featuring Seth Rogen, Michael K. Williams, Nolan Gould, Richard Kind and more.
The 2024 Palm Springs International ShortFest presented Awards and cash prizes worth $25,000 to the Festival juried and audience award winners including five Academy Award® qualifying awards selected from the 310 short films that were part of the Official Selection.
The untold story of legendary motorsports pioneer Mary McGee a.k.a. Motorcycle Mary made its world premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Festival in New York in the shorts competition on Friday, June 7th (with additional screenings June 13 and 15).
Catharsis, the avant-garde, neo-noir short film starring Deborah Harry (Blondie), Harrison Ball (NYC Ballet), Marc Geller (Severance), Jemima Kirke (Girls), Supermodel Sasha Pivovarova, Zumi Rosow and Cole Alexander (The Black Lips) will get its World Premiere at Tribeca Festival 2024.
The Palm Springs International ShortFest celebrates its 30th-anniversary edition at the Regal Palm Springs from June 18-24, 2024.
Moi aussi (Me too), French actress, director, screenwriter and producer Judith Godrèche’s new short film, which highlights the stories of victims of sexual violence, will be included in the Official Selection of 2024 Cannes Film Festival, and will screen at the Un Certain Regard opening ceremony.
11 short films from 10 countries and for its 27th edition La Cinef will present 14 live-action and 4 animated short films in competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.
The 2024 Tribeca Festival unveiled its lineup of 87 short narrative, documentary, and animated films, including 65 films in competition and 10 music videos. This year’s Festival, which takes place June 5-16, showcases 12 short film sections, presented by Starbucks, programmed to delight audiences with heartwarming and hilarious storytelling.
Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter was awarded the Eva Maria Daniels Award for Vital Filmmaking for her narrative short film FÁR at the Stockfish Film & Industry Festival (SFIF). The prestigious prize came with 1.5 million Icelandic Króna for the filmmaker to put towards their next project. The ceremony took place at the 25th annual Edda Awards, presented by the Icelandic Film and Television Academy.
From award-winning filmmaker, musician and LAUSD star alumni Kris Bowers (A Concerto is a Conversation, Green Book, King Richard, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story) and Oscar® winning director Ben Proudfoot, comes The Last Repair Shop, a film about LAUSD’s unique free and freely-repaired musical instrument repair shop, which helped launch countless illustrious careers and millions of music lovers.
The Masterpiece, directed and written by Alex Lora Cercos was awarded the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. The short film follows a wealthy couple who meets two scrap dealers at a recycle center. Offering them more junk the wealthy couple invites them to their mansion, but the immigrants actually might be the ones with something she wants.
The European Film Academy revealed the nominees of the categories “European Animated Feature Film” and “European Short Film”.