Between February 14-Febraury 25, The MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival (The World’s First Global Film Festival) will conduct its 4th Annual Virtual Film Festival. film lovers will be able to view and vote on a compelling lineup of short films from the comfort of their own homes.

Keeping with our tradition, the judges for these films will be the Public!
After the screening of the final film, a pop-up window will appear where audiences can vote for their favorite film. Votes will be tallied, and the winners will be announced on February 26th, at ManhattanShortOnline.com

The Perfect Oscar Marketing Campaign for Filmmakers entering the 2024 Oscars

For filmmakers entering the 2024 Oscar race, MANHATTAN SHORT Online is the perfect event to boost your Oscar marketing campaign. MANHATTAN SHORT, established in 1998, partners with over 500 Art House Cinemas worldwide and these cinemas are supported by voting members of the Academy. With the Oscars taking place just a few weeks after this event, MANHATTAN SHORT Online is perfectly timed and another wonderful opportunity to get your film in front of those Academy voting members. On top of that each filmmaker selected receives $350 as an added bonus

As a filmmaker, once your short film is completed the goal is to get that film in front of as many eyes as possible. Short films are made to be seen! We have an already established audience of over 100,000 film lovers around the globe. MANHATTAN SHORT Online is the ideal vehicle to launch great works of art to audiences worldwide.


Each Filmmaker will be awarded $350.00

All films must be 18 minutes under in length.

Films already screening on the Internet are ineligible to enter.

We accept all genres and do not rule out anything.

Deadline for entries: Jan 10 each year. There are no late deadlines.

Selected films will be asked to submit their films as an Apple ProRes Quicktime file. Frame rate of (23.98) or (24p).