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The Best Shorts Competition is unique in the industry. Attracting both powerhouse companies as well as talented new filmmakers it is an exceptional, truly international awards competition, not a traditional film festival – which allows filmmakers from around the world to enter their films in this prestigious competition. Our talented Best Shorts award winners have gone on to win Oscar, Emmy, Telly and other awards.
THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS ONLINE SHORTS COMPETITION!
IMDb Qualified!
ABOUT:
Currently in its 10th year, the Best Shorts is an avant-garde worldwide competition that strives to give talented directors, producers, actors, new media creators and members of the creative teams a unique venue for their work and the positive exposure they deserve. It discovers and honors the achievements of filmmakers who produce high quality shorts and new media.
Best Shorts Competition promotes award winners through press releases to over 100,000 filmmakers and industry contacts through FilmFestivals.com.
Best Shorts is a also great predictor of future success. Our talented award winners have gone on to win Oscars, Emmys, Tellys and other awards.
Above all, we truly value and honor our filmmaking family!
Every film deserves the chance to be seen and with the main goal of traditional film festivals to bring entertainment to local audiences…this can make the filmmaker of secondary importance. At Best Shorts Competition, every film entered is judged on its own merits by our panels of Emmy, Telly and Communicator award nominees and winners.
Serving filmmakers is Best Short’s primary goal!
BENEFITS OF PARTICIPATING:
• PROMOTIONAL LAURELS – Give your film opening and your promotional graphics that wow factor!
• PEER REVIEW – Our judges are Emmy, Telly and award-winning filmmakers who understand both filmmaking craft and what audiences want.
• FREE PRESS IS EVERYTHING – Use our social media posts to share with your audience and our free press release template and tips to garner critical publicity to enhance the credibility of your project.
• PRESS RELEASE – CUSTOM for you! – Winners receive a fill-in-the-blanks Press Release to promote your win and tips for using it. We've done the heavy lifting - just fill it in and send to media outlets suitable for your work!
• SOCIAL MEDIA PUSH – Best Shorts announces award winners on Facebook and Twitter and winners are encouraged to share and re-Tweet those posts. Winners are also sent to a data base of 100,000 industry pros through our partner FilmFestivals.com.
FEATURES OF BEST SHORTS COMPETITION:
• PRESTIGIOUS – In winning a Best Shorts award you join the ranks of high-profile winners like Oscar-winning short Mr. Hublot, and countless other Oscar and Emmy winning famous (and soon to be famous!) filmmakers.
• IMDb QUALIFIED – Have your win listed on the industry’s top international database.
• NO POLITICS FAIR JUDGING – It doesn’t matter who you are – each entry is judged solely on the merits of the piece and scores are given accordingly!
• TELLING – Our talented filmmakers have gone on to win Oscars, Emmys & Tellys.
• SOCIAL CONSCIENCE – Best Shorts grants an annual Humanitarian Award and celebrates work by women filmmakers, LBGTQ+, disability issues, social justice, humanity, animal welfare and environmental issues.
• CAREER ENHANCING – Best Shorts attracts extraordinary work from filmmakers at all levels of experience - from talented first timers to industry heavyweights Everyone benefits from the publicity of a win and from professional peer feedback!
• UNIQUE – A truly international awards competition, attracting global participation. 86 countries and counting!
• INDUSTRY STANDARD – We proudly comply with Festival best practices and Best Shorts is IMDb qualified! Listing your award on your IMDb page is invaluable for your projects and future endeavors.
WHAT KIND OF MEDIA
The Best Shorts Competition is an excellent venue for films, documentaries, new and experimental media, television pilot programs, animation, educational programs, remixes & mashups, movie trailers, music videos, webisodes and tube length works. As long as the entry is 57 minutes or less, it is eligible for submission.
Judging and Award Levels
Each year Best Shorts Competition receives thousands of entries. Quality and creativity are celebrated in four levels of awards: Best of Show, Outstanding Achievement, Award of Excellence, Award of Merit and Award of Recognition.
The judging takes place by in-house staff and a committee of industry professionals including Emmy, Telly and Communicator award nominees and recipients.
We believe that films other than the one “BEST OF” deserve recognition – so we offer a variety of award levels befitting the judging scores.
We pride ourselves on fair and non-political judging. entries do not compete against each other. Instead, entries are judged against a high standard of merit and are scored accordingly.
Judges score entries on a performance scale and winning entries are recognized and awarded as Best of Show, Outstanding Achievement, Awards of Excellence, Awards of Merit, Awards of Recognition or no award.
Best of Show honors are granted to the top scoring entry for each season. Awards of Excellence are granted to entries with truly exceptional filmmaking. Notable artistic and technical productions are recognized at the Awards of Merit award level and Awards of Recognition recognizes achievement in a specific category of entry.
No fixed numbers of awards are granted at any level but rather fluctuate based on the total number of entries received for each competition deadline.
NOTIFICATION:
Each submission received will be confirmed by FilmFreeway and Best Shorts Competition administrative offices via electronic mail.
After judging is completed, winners in all categories will be notified of their award and are provided additional information such as links to winner’s laurels etc.
STATUETTES
The Best Shorts Competition statuette is exceptional in this industry and is a work of art. Covered with 24k gold, it is manufactured by the company that makes the worlds’ most prestigious and celebrated awards, the Oscar, Clio, and Accolade.
HUMANITARIAN AWARD:
Best Shorts is a competition with a conscience. Each year the Best Shorts Competition grants its Annual Humanitarian Award for dedicated service to Ecological, Political, Social Justice, Health and Wellness, Animals, Wildlife, Conservation and Spiritual importance. Films meeting these criteria and recognized at the Award of Excellence level can be nominated for the Humanitarian Award by any of the judges. All nominated films are then reviewed at the end of each year and awards granted. Each year the judges will select one Grand Prize winner and award Outstanding Achievement and Award of Distinction to all deserving films.
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Space Boy MX
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Greg Simmons
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Patrick Phillips
April 2023
