Festivals and Awards

On our postcard and website, possibly also in our film we are going to have our short film be nominated for different awards and pretend to be shown at various film festivals. We obviously are not involved with any of these festivals or awards but it helps create a more realistic and professional sense of our products. To ensure it becomes as professional as possible, I researched the top film festivals and nominations some other top short film have received. I am going to try and only use ones which appear realistic to the genre of our film. I used http://www.raindance.org/worlds-top-short-film-festivals/ to find the festivals.

• Sundance Film Festival (USA)
• Cannes Film Festival (France) – for shorts under 15 minutes only
• Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films (USA)
• Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (France)
• Aspen Shortsfest (USA)
These are the top 5 world wide festivals with the most submitted films. We are defiantly going to include these on our products as they are the most known.

To find the awards, I used short film awards from BAFTA which are British. I got the list from http://www.bafta.org/film/awards/british-short-film-british-short-animation. I used a professional product, a short film postcard called '' Rain in Summer '' and copied their nominations. Below you can see, we are planning to use the same ones on our products. Mainly the nominations are just best short films and are at different film festivals, because it is short films there rarely are multiple nominations as it is not as big.