Short Film Fund 2024: Winners

The 2024 edition of the Short Film Fund was a big success regarding writing quality. All of our finalists (and honourable mentions) demonstrated outstanding storytelling skills, which we would have loved to support. Nevertheless, we had to sit down with our jurors and make a final decision on the winner would be… Our wonderful finalists …

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Short Film Fund 2024: Finalists

Thank you for participating in the Short Film Fund. Reducing the longlist to just six finalist projects has been challenging. We tried to select those projects that managed to deliver a well-developed story that felt unique. But there were definitely more than six projects that we would have loved to promote to the finalist stage. …

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Short Film Fund 2024: longlist announced

Thank you all for participating in the Short Film Fund. This year we received many solid projects, so the longlist is fairly long! THE LONGLIST A Lake of Stars, written by Nick Green A Significant Moment, written by Imogen Harrison About Grief and Plants, written by Noam Gottlieb-Zeiss Almost Heaven, written by Tanya Shamil Bin …

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Longlisted projects announced – Script Call for Rachel Stander

Thank you to everyone who participated in our script call for producer Rachel Stander. Rachel was looking for feature film dramedies with a soft sci-fi or magic realism element, something along the lines of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind“, “Her“, “Timer“, “The Lobster“, “The Big Door Prize“. We received over 100 submissions for this …

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How to format a screenplay professionally

We often provide feedback on screenplays that are not formatted professionally. This is a big red flag for anyone reading scripts because screenplay formatting has very specific rules, and it is not just about how it reads on the page, but it has significant implications for visual storytelling. If you submit a wrongly formatted screenplay …

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Winners – Short Film Fund 2023

All our finalists submitted amazing projects. The quality was very high and we would have 100% backed them all. But we had to pick a winner and the jury agreed two films somehow managed to stand out. The first one – which we picked as a winner – stands out because it has the most …

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Finalists – Short Film Fund 2023

It is difficult to compare projects fairly when they are so different from each other. In general, tried to evaluate the effectiveness of the concept and then checked if the execution of the script delivered on its premise. We also favoured the scripts featuring a full narrative arc – which is difficult to achieve in …

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