Certainly theres convenience and easeofuse advantage to both the filmmaker and the audience, he says. Kevin Spaceys Trigger Street Short Film Festival and the AOL Latino Short Film Festival. Somebody sends me link and Ill go check it out. Theyre short, sometimes sweet and easy to digest. Many traditional festivals are offering an online component including Sundance and Tribeca, but more and more short film fests exist only virtually, ready to play in your living room or on your laptop hours day.. And then theres YouTube and other filmmakers sitestheres lot out there.
Two of the bigger and wellknown online shorts fests are The Moviefone Short Film Festival is breeding ground for new talent. Her efforts paid off with two major screenings traditional one at the Los Angeles Film Festival, and one in new medium, the Independent Lens Online Shorts Festival. Theres alsoat last theoreticallyunlimited reach with an online film festival.
And for audiences, theres no schlepping, no time constraints, no soldout shows and no crowd fighting. Not everyone can go to film festival, agrees Fischer, and shorts programs often sell out at festivals. Actors and filmmakers are in the game too. And then theres YouTube and other filmmakers sitestheres lot out there. Harnessing and organizing all that content was the goal of Cathy Fischer, the ITVS Interactive senior producer who oversaw the development of the Independent Lens Online Shorts Festival. broadband connections and better compression systems are moving the festival out of the movie house and on to the computer.
As early as we began getting requests from exclusively online film festivals, says Kramer. Kevin Spaceys Trigger Street Short Film Festival and the AOL Latino Short Film Festival.
Some festivals specialize in particular genres of short films, such as Current TVs Seeds of Tolerance, MediaRights Media That Matters Festival and the Haydenfilms Online Festival now in its third year. Fred Kramer, COO of Withoutabox, company that provides filmmakers with the opportunity to make submissions to film festivals of all kinds, estimates there are hundreds of online shorts festivals.
Online is really the perfect platform for short films, Fischer explains, particularly for generation thats used to YouTube and MySpace. As video clips proliferate on the Internet, are online film festivals was new to Ichishita, though the filmmaker says she often watches short films online Not in traditional festival sense, though. Since then, weve probably worked with or so online festivals, though the lines between traditional and online festivals are beginning to blur. Kramer estimates that three percent of the festivals Withoutabox works with are exclusively virtual, and hes fan of the online exhibition.
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