Palm Springs

Speakers Include Representatives from Anonymous Content, Associated Press, Borgus Film, CAA, Cloud Imperium, The Hollywood Reporter, Indiegogo, Indiewire, kweliTV, Little Teeth Pictures, Los Angeles Film Festival, Los Angeles Times, Preferred Content, Pysop, Seed & Spark, Southland Productions, Tribeca Film Festival, Twitter, UCLA, Variety, Warner Bros. and Many Others.

The Palm Springs International ShortFest (June 21-27) is best known for its award-winning short films, but each year the Festival also welcomes a long guest list of filmmakers and industry attendees for the ShortFest Forums of panels and roundtables. New this year, the Forums will kick off with a Tech Day, in partnership with UC-Riverside, focusing on VR, online streaming, video game development and more. Prominent industry figures from Anonymous Content, Associated Press, Borgus Film, CAA, Cloud Imperium, The Hollywood Reporter, Indiegogo, Indiewire, kweliTV, Little Teeth Pictures, Los Angeles Film Festival, Los Angeles Times, Preferred Content, Pysop, Seed & Spark, Southland Productions, Tribeca Film Festival, Twitter, UCLA, Variety, Warner Bros. and other organizations will participate in three days of ShortFest Forums covering a wide range of emerging trends and new practices in the global film community.

“Our panels, roundtables, speed-pitching and masterclasses give hundreds of attending filmmakers unprecedented access to top industry professionals,” said Festival Director Helen du Toit. “In addition, this year, in tandem with our new partners at UCR, we are excited to be launching the Forum with ‘Tech Day,’ a full day of experts downloading the latest intel from the tech world, plus a VR demo lounge – all designed to inspire emerging filmmakers to take their craft to the next level and create unforgettable experiences for audiences.”

Panel only tickets are available to the public for $13 each. A student pass is available to those currently enrolled in an accredited college/university or high school and grants access to regular film screenings and the ShortFest Forums for $100. All ShortFest Forums are free to accredited filmmakers participating in ShortFest and its concurrent Short Film Market. For more information and tickets, call (760) 778-8979 or (800) 898-7526 or visit the website: http://www.psfilmfest.org

About Palm Springs International ShortFest: Designated by AMPAS, BAFTA and BIFA as an award-qualifying festival, the Palm Springs International ShortFest & Short Film Market, one of the most acclaimed short film showcases in the world, will take place in Palm Springs on June 21-27. Now in its 22nd year, ShortFest will showcase 328 short films from 54 countries. The concurrent Short Film Market will feature a library of more than 4100 short films available to film buyers, industry and press, the only Short Film Market in North America. The ShortFest Forum programs are a three-day schedule of seminars, panel discussions, roundtables and master classes staged free of charge for attending filmmakers.