For Academy Awards consideration, a short film that is not more than 40 minutes
in running time (including all credits) and which falls into the animated (cel
animation, computer animation, stop-motion, clay animation, puppets, pixilation,
cutouts, pins, camera multiple pass imagery, kaleidoscopic effects and drawing
on the film frame itself for example) or live-action film categories, can qualify
in one of two ways:
1) The film must have been publicly exhibited for paid admission in a commercial
motion picture theater in Los Angeles County for a run of at least three consecutive
days (no fewer than two screenings a day) or
2) The film must have participated in a "recognized" competitive film
festival and must have won the best-in-category award.
Furthermore, short films in either category must be composite prints in 16mm,
35mm or 70mm, in English or English subtitles. Television or internet exhibition
anywhere does not disqualify a film, provided such exhibition occurs after its
Los Angeles theatrical release, or after receiving its festival award. Documentaries,
previews, trailers or advertising films are excluded.
Short Films Awards Festivals List
Ann Arbor (Michigan) Film Festival - http://aafilmfest.org/
Annecy Festival Int'l Du Cinema D'animation - http://www.annecy-animation-festival.tm.fr/
Aspen Shortsfest - http://www.aspenfilm.org/
Athens (Ohio) Int'l Film Festival - http://www.cats.ohiou.edu/~filmfest/
Atlanta Film Festival - http://www.imagefv.org/afvf/
Austin Film Festival - http://www.austinfilmfestival.com/
Berlin Int'l Film Festival - http://www.berlinale.de/
Bilbao Int'l Festival of Documentary & Short Films - http://www.zinebi.com/
Black Maria Film Festival - http://www.blackmariafilmfestival.com/
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards - http://www.bafta.org
Cannes Festival Int'l Du Film - http://www.festival-cannes.fr/
Cartagena Int'l Film Festival - http://www.festicinecartagena.com/
Chicago Int'l Children's Film Festival - http://www.cicff.org/
Chicago Int'l Film Festival - http://films.site9.net/
Cinanima Int'l Animation Film Festival - http://www.awn.com/cinanima/
Cracow Int'l Festival of Short Films - http://www.shortfilm.apollo.pl
Florida Film Festival - http://www.floridafilmfestival.com/
Foyle Film Festival - http://www.foylefilmfestival.com/
Gijon Int'l Film Festival for Young People - http://www.gijonfilmfestival.com/
Hiroshima Int'l Animation Festival - http://www.urban.ne.jp/home/hiroanim/
India Int'l Film Festival - http://www.mib.nic.in/dff/
Locarno Int'l Film Festival - http://www.pardo.ch/
Los Angeles Int'l Short Film Festival - http://www.lashortsfest.com/
Melbourne Int'l Film Festival - http://www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au/
Montreal Int'l Festival of New Cinema - http://www.fcmm.com/
Montreal World Film Festival - http://www.ffm-montreal.org/
Nashville Independent Film Festival - http://www.nashvillefilmfestival.org/
Oberhausen Int'l Short Film Festival - http://www.uni-duisburg.de/HRZ/IKF/
Ottawa Int'l Animation Festival - http://www.awn.com/ottawa/
Palm Springs Int'l Short Film Festival - http://www.psfilmfest.org/
Rhode Island International Film Festival - http://www.film-festival.org/
San Francisco Int'l Film Festival - http://sfiff.org/
Santa Barbara Int'l Film Festival - http://www.sbfilmfestival.org/
Shorts Int'l Film Festival - http://www.shorts.org/
Siggraph - http://www.siggraph.org/
Slamdance Film Festival - http://www.slamdance.com/
St. Louis Int'l Film Festival - http://www.sliff.org/
Stuttgart Int'l Animation Festival - http://www.itfs.de/
Sundance Film Festival - http://www.sundance.org/
Sydney Film Festival - http://www.sydfilm-fest.com.au/
Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival - http://www.worldwideshortfilmfest.com/
Turin Int'l Film Festival of Young Cinema - http://www.torinofilmfest.org/
Uppsala Int'l Short Film Festival - http://www.shortfilmfestival.com/
USA Film Festival - http://www.usafilmfestival.com/
Venice Int'l Film Festival - http://www.labiennaledivenezia.net/
World Animation Celebration (Los Angeles) - http://www.awn.com/wac/
Zagreb World Festival Of Animated Films - http://www.animafest.hr/
