Thursday, June 05, 2008

Super Shorts

SUPER SHORTS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL IS BACK AND SET TO BE BETTER THAN EVER!

SUPER SHORTS IS COMING!
Things are buzzing at Super Shorts HQ as the 2008 Super Shorts International Film Festival is now less than a month away! Our official selectors have been busy with the mammoth task of short-listing films and we’ve been blown away at the quantity and quality of this year’s submissions. The shortlists for the Short Film, Short Script and Music Video competitions will be announced on 16 June.

This year’s festival runs from the 1st - 6th July and is being hosted at the the Odeon Covent Garden. This year’s festival is being run and sponsored by Portobello Post.

FREE COPY OF ‘SHORT CUTS’ MAGAZINE
'Short Cuts' is the official magazine of this year's Super Shorts International Film Festival. It contains interviews with over 60 filmmakers, experts and experienced crew including Oscar-nominated producer Marshall Herskovitz (Blood Diamond, Traffic), editor Tom Hemmings (London to Brighton, The Cottage), Patrick Cadell (2nd AD Raiders of the Lost Ark, Superman), Phil Mathews (SFX - Saving Private Ryan, Judge Dredd) and many, many more!

And best of all... it's completely free!

Register for your free copy here www.supershorts.org.uk/magazine.php

DAILYMOTION MUSIC VIDEO COMPETITION
For our Music Video Competition we've teamed up with video sharing platform Dailymotion.com, the first site to feature a full HD player. They will host this years online music video competition so keep your eyes peeled for the finalists. In the meantime, it's free to become a 'motionmaker' and as well as the HD ready player there are NO file size or time limits.

Dailymotion is one of the 30 most popular websites worldwide and the largest collection of premium UGC and licensed video in the world, with 2 billion page views per month. Every day their users upload 15,000 new videos and their editorial teams choose the best of it to program on their localised homepages, creating a top quality entertainment experience for the 38 million unique visitors they get per month.

Dailymotion use market-leading technology to optimise the experience for both users and content creators, providing high quality video in a fast, easy-to-use website, and protecting copyrighted content through their finger-printing technology, which automatically filters out infringing material. Check out their UK promo at http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5i7fu_dailymotion-uk-promo

MORE INFORMATION
For more details about this year's festival go to www.supershorts.org.uk

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