Shortmoves 2010 • 10th International Short Film Festival Halle (Saale)

Festival 2010

Entertaining. International. Passionate – attributes describing SHORTMOVES the one and only international short film festival in Saxony-Anhalt. 2010 the festival celebrates its 10th birthday. We invite all lovers of cinema and filmmakers from all over the world to celebrate the jubilee with us on September, 17th and 18th in Halle. Various short films are waiting, a lot of “15 Minutes Of Fame”.

„15 Minutes Of Fame“ – the SHORTMOVES slogan of 2010 – shall also be understood as a question. The quarter of an hour fame for everyone that was fortold by Andy Warhol in 1968, will also be given to every film screened within the SHORTMOVES festival 2010. For a maximum of 15 minutes the film occupies the screen. And then? What effect does the short film have on its audience? Which role do short films play in a cultural and social context? SHORTMOVES 2010 doesn’t only screen short films but also encourages to talk about them.

Program

Tickets

Tickets for the LUX Kino am Zoo can be booked at the UniShop im Marktschlösschen, LUX Kino am Zoo and PUSCHKINo. Online reservations are available here.

Approach

Minimoves

Nach langer Pause wird es in diesem Jahr wieder ein Kinderkurzfilmfest für Mitteldeutschland unter dem Motto Setzt dich in 10´e geben. Am Wochenende, an dem das 10. Shortmoves Kurzfilmfestival in Halle startet, gibt es Kurzfilme von Kindern für Kinder.

Minimoves Website

News

Online Ticket Booking

Already well-liked in the past year: Online-Booking. Apart from our booking offices UniShop, LUX Kino am Zoo and PUSCHKINo you have the possibility to reserve tickets via Internet. You can...

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More than watching films – minimoves children short film festival 2010

After having rested for about 3 years, the children’s short film festival “minimoves” is back in Halle. On Sunday, September 19th 2010 at 3 o’ clock pm it takes place...

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Shortmoves Trailer 2010

Ticket pre-sale starts today

Entries blew up our mail box

Jury Award

Call For Entries

We want your short film! Be one of about 20 filmmakers who have their films screened at the SHORTMOVES 2010 festival competition. 15 minutes on screen, 15 minutes of attention, 15 minutes of admiration can be yours. Of course all films screened during the competition also battle for our festival awards, the highest one luring with € 1000,-.

Deadline for your entry: June, 30th.

In 2009 a postman, a night-employee and a young man, warning of cardboard-headed aliens were the heroes of the award-winning short films. This variety is what we are looking for in 2010 as well – we are open-minded to every genre: funny or sad, dramatic or thrilling, feature film or animation.

The only condition: Your film shouldn’t be longer than 15 minutes.

Are you interested? Do you want your film screened in an international festival? Then follow the below mentioned directions:

Submission requirements

SHORTMOVES does not imply any restrictions to content and aesthetic. There are only conditions to the form:

A maximum of 15 minutes
One of the following formats: DVD, Mini- DV, Quicktime or MPEG (high quality)
English subtitles

↓ Anmeldeformular (pdf)

How to hand in your submission:

Download the submission form (PDF), fill in and sign it.
Preview-copy, submission form, press-published materials and screenshots of your short film. Furthermore: attach a reply-paid envelope
Send your package by June, 30th (post mark) to the following address: HIM – Hallisches Institut für Medien e.V., Mansfelder Straße 56, 06108 Halle (Saale)

Easy as that is the submission to SHORTMOVES 2010. For more detailed information check out our regulation paper (PDF).

We are looking forward to your short film and hopefully we will meet on September, 17th and 18th in Halle.

About

SHORTMOVES – The International Short Film Festival in Halle (Saale)

The most evident characteristic of a short film is: its length. Other than that with short films nothing is impossible. Limits of genre or conventions aren’t part of the process of short filmmaking. Essential to short films is the freedom to art and aesthetics which allows a tremendous potential of innovations.

Trailer 2010

Dokumentation 2009

SHORTMOVES is all about these characteristics: The International Short Film Festival which was founded in 2001 by former student René Langner puts up only one restriction concerning submissions to the festival: the film must be short, no film shall be longer than 15 minutes. No further restrictions! Amateur films are as welcome as professional productions, we are open-minded to every form, content and style.

SHORTMOVES also puts special weight on blasting the national limits of Germany. Shortfilmmakers from all over the world are invited to enter the competition that isn’t all about only watching. SHORTMOVES is also the place to get together. Filmmakers, lovers of film but also founders and creative industries are meeting here to share, discuss and get in touch because SHORTMOVES is more than just a festival.

Philosophy

SHORTMOVES is far more than the one and only International Short Film Festival in Saxony-Anhalt. SHORTMOVES is the expression of our passion for the short film as well as our ambition for adequate attention for the assumed little brother of the big screen. We want to share these little stories that accelerate our heartbeat within a few minutes. We want to inspire, to affect, to electrify. We want more than just to screen short films: We want to offer a platform to the genre. A basis for applause, attention, exchange and encouragement.

When SHORTMOVES started its ‘career’ in 2001 it was just a simple base to share film productions with fellow. But what was born as a spontaneous idea, is a precious enrichement to the cultural landscape of the grey diva Halle. Within the regional context of the art academy Burg Giebichenstein, the Mitteldeutsches Medienzentrum, the Werkleitz-society, the MDR sound broadcasting centre and the Studio Halle, the departement of media- and communication at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg as well as a cutting-edge culture and arts scene, Halle offers an active cultural mosaic everybody is benefitting from. SHORTMOVES easily was established and within no time became international.

In the 10th year of its festival history we want to break new ground with SHORTMOVES. In 2010 the International Short Film Festival takes root as holistic and diverse cultural program – for filmmakers as well as audience. At the same time we stay true to our credo: The short film is the center of all our actions. We understand it to be an all-artistic, creative process and dedicate the same amount of time and attention to every submission. Irrespective of equipement and experience we are looking for exceptional ideas, passion and dedication which narrate the small and great stories of life within a maximum of 15 minutes.

Team

The SHORTMOVES 2010 – team consists of about 20 creative heads who work with dedication, courage and a lot of motivation for the short film festival. Partially the organisation of SHORTMOVES is outsourced to a workshop at the media and communications sciences departement of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. Here students, staff and volunteers work hand in hand for planing, research, organisation, financing and promotion of the short film festival.

Hosted by

Hallisches Institut für Medien (HIM)

Art Director

René Langner, Initiator von SHORTMOVES & Medien- und Kulturpädagoge

Staff of the Martin-Luther-University

Students of the Martin-Luther-University

Kathrin Becker, Hannes Beßler, Patrick Boose, Ruzha Kalinova Georgieva, Nadine Gonnschorek, Anna-Katharina Gruner, Steve Helling, Karoline Knaup, Juliane Kranz, Matthias Kretschmann, Julius Lukas, Constanze Lupondije, Mariya Petrova, Anne Schauer, Stephanie Scholz, Susanne Schultz, Henriette Stallbaum, Sabine Wöller

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