Short Short Story Film Festival
The Short Short Story Film Festival is a competitive international festival of films that tell a story in under six minutes.
The 12th edition of the festival will take place in Providence, RI on Saturday, November 24th, at AS220.
The Short Short Story Film Festival celebrates brevity in filmmaking, with films from across the globe, both live-action and animated.
Two programs, Heartstrings and Headtrip, both showcase dozens of films tightly sequenced in under ninety minutes, each with a distinctive tone yet wide-ranging styles and topics.
For more details, including showtimes, click here.
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Selections Complete
We have completed our selection process. With several hundred quality submissions from more than seventy countries, it was difficult yet rewarding to select the best of the best.
In total, we accepted 36 films, in two programs of 18 films each.
Thirty countries from six continents are represented, with 26 films making their U.S. premieres, including eight world premieres.
Click here to see the list of films.
More On The Festival
Audiences vote on their three favorite films to determine award winners in each program. A panel of Spoiler Alert Radio interviewees judge the films and selects the best in each program.
Commissioned custom art objects created by past festival participants are presented to the winners.
Click here to read details of last year's festival.
To learn more about the festival concept and history, click here.
For requirements to submit in the future, click here.
There is no fee to submit your film to the festival.
Womanimation! 2018
Womanimation! is a festival showcasing acclaimed animated short film stories created by women from around the world.
The tenth edition took place on Saturday, June 30th, at Amazing Things Arts Center in Framingham, Massachusetts.
You can read more on the festival here.
Awards
We have counted and recounted the ballots, and this year's Audience Award winner is Tweet-Tweet, directed by Russian womanimator Zhanna Bekmambetova.
Gelato and Nachtstück (Nocturne) also did well in the voting.
Nachtstück, by German womanimator Anne Breymann, also won the Visual Vanguard award for visual innovation in storytelling.
Award winners will be receiving custom awards created by last year's Womanimation! award winners, Britt Raes and Szandra Pataki.
Festival Films
Having received hundreds of submissions, we selected a dozen films to screen in the festival.
Filmmakers hailed from ten countries on four continents, with styles from stop-motion to 3D to traditional 2D and computer/2D hybrids.
With running times between 2½ and 15 minutes, the films emphasize well-developed narratives, with themes including historical romance, self-acceptance, family relationships, the cycle of life, and voyages into the supernatural.
Click here for a list of the 2018 festival films.