*** It is with a heavy heart and much deliberation that we have decided to cancel our 2020 Shortz! Film Festival.
We are not only doing this in accordance with the CDC and State recommendations, but also as a commitment to keep all of our Shortz! family of filmmakers, volunteers and staff safe and healthy throughout this global pandemic.
We hope to have dates and plans for our 11th year 10 year anniversary celebration and blowout party bash posted soon. Keep checking back for more info.
Love and best wishes to all of you ***
The Shortz! Film Festival is an annual international short film festival in Chico, California which showcases the best and brightest short films from around the globe. The festival accepts and screens short films with running times of 30 minutes or less in any genre.
Created by local filmmakers from Chico, California, Shortz! was started with the desire to bring film makers together in a fun and funky environment, to meet and network with the ultimate goal of producing more films.
Awards are presented to the top films in chosen categories as well as to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place Audience favorites and Judges choice.
The top 3 Short Film winners in our Best Of Show category will receive an InkTip Script Listing to promote themselves and their scripts to InkTip’s entire network of producers, managers, and agents. Companies who are InkTip members include: ABC, Anonymous Content, APA, CBS Films, HBO Films, ICM, Paradigm, Paramount Pictures, Hallmark Channel, FX, Universal, WME, Echo Lake, Zero Gravity, Bad Robot, 20th Century Fox, and many more.
All screening films are automatically eligible for placement on our world famous Roku channel. With over 50,000 subscribers, your film can screen to a worldwide audience year round!
All entries receive one ticket to the two-day festival regardless if the film screens or not.