Edinburgh Short Film Festival (ESFF) 2017 - SHORT FILM COMPETITION

Jan 03, 2017 | by InfoDesigners

The winners have been announced on 26/06/2017

Short film competition titled Edinburgh Short Film Festival (ESFF) 2017 is calling for entries. Below you can find all details about this competition:

The Edinburgh Short Film Festival (ESFF) 2017 is now opened for entries for a new edition of film competition seeking for the short films in all forms, genres and techniques completed since January 2014.

About competition

Screening the best in International contemporary short cinema at venues across the Scottish capital, the Edinburgh Short Film Festival (ESFF) is now open for submissions for 2017 film competition.

The Festival is open to any form of short film, genre, budgets and techniques. The maximum duration for submitted films is 20 minutes, including credits.

The selected submissions will also be included in the Festival’s programmes for other festivals across the UK & Internationally and this year, the organizers are excited to be programming films for their 2017 partners:

- Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (Tokyo)
- The Sardinia Film Festival
- Scots Day Out, Bendigo

Devoted to screening short film from Edinburgh, Scotland and around the world, The ESFF evolved from the Leith Short Film Festival in 2011 and has shown everything from the first film made in Somalia in 20 years, to Oscar nominated shorts from Australia, the USA and Ireland, as well as short films smuggled out of China and Iran and hosted visiting film-makers from China, Russia, Italy, Spain, Germany, Holland and all over the UK.

The regular submission fee is £15 per short film.

For Early Bird entries submitted by 30 January 2017, the fee is £12. Entries submitted after 15 May 2017 will be considered late and cost £20 per film.

Award

The best films will be screened at the Filmhouse and Summerhall in Edinburgh, this Autumn during the 7th edition of the festival, scheduled for 27 October – 11 November, 2017. A total of $2,000 (USD) will be awarded in prize money.

For all further informations about the competition Edinburgh Short Film Festival (ESFF) 2017 or to submit your works visit the following official website: