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Festival

Festival presentation: 

Go Short is an annual new, refreshing film festival for European short films. It is a unique event in The Netherlands at which the audience is treated to short films. The festival's main location is the local multifunctional arthouse LUX.

Go Short is the Dutch festival for short film. For five days, around 300
short films are screened in Nijmegen. Besides screenings there are
exhibitions, workshops, performances, parties and more!

Established in 2008 Go Short shows a wide variation of short films, most
of them made by young, talented filmmakers from all over Europe. The
festival's main program contains national, international, student and
online competitions (containing fiction, animation, documentary and art
film). The student competition, Breaking Shorts, is selected by the
student film platform Breaking Ground. Competitions are judged by
multiple professional juries. Go Short also presents focus programs and
out of competition programs.

Festival Nickname: 

Go Short

Edition: 

4

Festival Logo: 

Theme: 

Animation

European Films

Student films

Category/Format: 

Animated Films

Documentaries

Experiment

Short films

Student film

Go Short -
International Short Film Festival Nijmegen is now open for submissions!
Festival dates: 
14 - 18 March 2012

Entry form and regulations can be found on www.goshort.nl/entry

The preparations for the fourth edition of the Go Short - International Short
Film Festival Nijmegen are already in progress. We are now accepting
submissions for our 2012 edition. All shorts completed after 1 September 2010
are eligible to compete in our competition programs (Student shorts completed
after 1 March 2010).

Competitions and awards

Go Short accepts all genres in short films for its
competition programs, divided in the genres animation, documentary, fiction and
experimental/artfilm. The short films that will be selected for the International
Competition are eligible for the Go Short award for the best short in four
different categories. All the Dutch short films will be eligible for the Go
Short award for the best Dutch short. All student films will be eligible for
the Encouragement award for the best European student short. Besides all these
awards per competition, all films will also be in the running for the Go Short
audience award which will be chosen by the audience during the Go Short
festival.

For the first time, we will have a year-round online
competition in which we show our five favorite new online films each month. The
audience favorite per month will go on to the final selection in February 2012,
from which the audience will choose the film that deserves the award. Eligible
films are under ten minutes and have been made in 2011,.

Registration deadline all shorts completed between before 31 December
2010: 16 September
2011

Registration deadline all shorts completed in 2011: 30 November 2011

No registration fee

Requirements:
1) Films must be completed after 1 September 2010 (student films completed
after 1 March 2010)
2) The maximum running time is 40 minutes
3) The origin must be Europe
4) Festival screening formats are: 35 mm / 16mm / digital beta PAL / beta sp
PAL / Blu-ray / Digital files

PREVIEW COPY: DVD
After emailing your entry form, please send 3 DVD's of your film(s) to the
following address:

Go Short

Attn. Program Department
PO BOX 1449
6501 BK Nijmegen
the Netherlands

Phone: +31 24 6636789

Entry[at]goshort.nl

www.goshort.nl

Student films will be selected by Breaking Ground. For
more information about submitting your student film, visit our
website or fill in the online entry form by Breaking
Ground.