The Close:Up San Francisco Short Film Festival is an online film festival dedicated to empowering short-form independent filmmaking.
Using the power of online platforms to bring a real cinematic experience to the comfort of cinephiles’ homes, Close:Up San Francisco Short Film Festival features shorts of upcoming filmmakers. Our goal is to offer a platform that will showcase the genre of short films and empower emerging and established filmmakers.
Independent cinema has always been giving voice to people of all backgrounds and has allowed artistic freedom. Our vision is to do our bit and contribute to this through our social.
Our screening program features different film genres including documentary, fiction, animated, music videos and experimental.
Send us your creations and share your story with us.
HFP
The Close:Up San Francisco Short Film Festival is organised by HFP, a pioneer organisation that runs Film Festivals and other events showcasing and championing ideas of diversity. Through our global series of film Festivals that spread over 13 countries, we open the path to voices with a compelling story to share. Our main mission is to honour independent cinema and establish a network of artists eager to join forces and spread their work across all nations. HFP runs 25 film Festivals worldwide.
The festival programmers will carefully select the films to be nominated for the following awards, and will then create a selection of nominated films to be screened in front of a live audience. The winners will be announced at the event, on our website and on social media.
There are two stages to the process:
△ Official Selection – Films selected for screening will be notified if they have been considered to be part of Close:Up San Francisco Short Film Festival’s Official Selection on the notification date. Screening materials will be requested and more information about the event will be provided.
△ Winners – Award winners will be selected from the Nominations & Official Selection and announced at our festival, after the screenings, and online the following day.
Awards will include Certificates and will be given in the following categories:
Best Short
Best Comedy
Best Drama
Best Experimental
Best Animation
Best Documentary
Best Music Video
Best Bay Area Production (discounted entry for films made by filmmakers based in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, or Sonoma)
△ In addition to the above-listed categories, we also offer the option of a Film Critique (as an add-on). Criticism may not always be agreeable but it is always necessary. Filmmakers require constructive feedback at every stage of their development, whether they're just starting out or they've been making films for decades. We offer you the opportunity to get your film project critiqued by one of the qualified film critics we collaborate with on our festivals. Regardless of whether your film is selected for screening, through this add-on, you receive an in-depth review (1-3 pages). The critique can be more or less general, or focus on particular elements - you choose.