Shortie Film Festival is a fast-growing annual film festival based in New York.
Shortie is a platform for young filmmakers which helps them to launch their careers and get discovered in the filmmaking capital, NYC. We represent filmmakers of all backgrounds and levels of experience. We promote and support great films by helping them to get industry recognition in the US.
Our judges are film industry professionals from different countries around the globe. They carefully review movies sent to the Shortie film festival and decide on the finalists and the winners.
We consider movies made with small and big budgets. Our festival wants to give recognition to every movie based on a strong story.
All winning works will be screened in front of a live audience in NYC.
'Official selection' movies will be carefully picked by our judges, film experts, and filmmakers. All movies of 'Official selection' will receive a Shortie film festival laurel.
All semi-finalists will receive the Semi-finalist festival laurel. All winners of the festival will receive special Winner of Shortie film festival laurels, certificates of recognition, free tickets to the festival.
All winners, as well as selected participants of the festival, will receive recognition on our website and on our social media.
Shortie will announce winners in the following categories:
Best Short Film of the Festival
Best Social Justice Short
Best Narrative Short
Best Documentary Short
Best Animated Short
Best Student Short
Best First-time Filmmaker
Best Short Script
Best Directing
Best Producing
Best Cinematography
Best Acting
Best Acting Ensemble
Best Editing
Best Sound Design
Best Original Score
Best Sound Design
Honorable Mention