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Short Short Story Film Festival

24 November - 8 December 2024


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E-mail: mergingarts@gmail.com

Phone: -

Address: USA

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The Short Short Story Film Festival is a competitive international festival of films that tell a story in under six minutes.

The 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.

Year established: 2007

Is this festival exclusively animation?: No - this is a film festival but with a specific animation category

Is there a marketplace at this festival?: No

Physical event or online?: Physical Festival


Submission deadline:
3 November 2024

Entry fee:
FREE! There is no charge for this festival

Categories:

  • Jury and Audience - Heartstring and Headtrip Awards

Submission methods:

  • Online Upload (via festival site)

Requirements:
Submission Requirements

There is no fee to submit a film for consideration.

The length of the film including all credits must be at least 1 minute (1:00:00) and shorter than 6 minutes (5:59:xx).

The film must tell a story; this excludes public service announcements, trailers, music videos, non-narrative experimental pieces, etc.

Whether a piece is truly narrative is at the discretion of the submission review panel.

All genres and styles are considered, including live action and animation, documentary and fiction, drama and comedy, etc.

For 2024, we prefer films completed in 2024 or 2024. Earlier films are ineligible. SSSFF was selected as a BIFA Qualifying Film Festival.

Festival recognised by: (what does this mean?)

  • European Film Academy

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