Meet the First Features 2024 awardees 🏅

104 applications whittled down to 5. We're pleased to announce the projects selected for early development funding through our First Features scheme.

Read about each of the projects and teams here 🔗 shortcircuit.scot/the-first-feat…

The POLY BAGGAGE team has wrapped! 🎬

Written / Directed by Emma Ramsay (Emma Ramsay)
Produced by Michaela Barton (@MichaelaBarton_)

Read about the film, and the other projects from the 2023 Sharp Shorts cohort 👉🏽shortcircuit.scot/sharp-shorts-2…

You can now listen to Persistent & Nasty's live podcast episode.

Hosted by co-founders Elaine Stirrat (she/her) and @mslouiseoliver, and with panelists Nikki Parrot of @tigerlilyproductions, @raisahahmedfilm, and @sarahgrantcreative.

🎧Listen online: persistentandnasty.co.uk/podcast

Please share/RT for BFI Screen Scotland funded short film for Short Circuit - Brilliant script and director, shooting June in Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

SAVE THE FILMHOUSE FUNDRAISER!

Weds 17 April 7pm

Grassmarket Community Centre

Scottish and Edinburgh-made shorts, curated by the ESFF
and the Grassmarket cinema.

Entry by donation to STF (cash only, amount discretionary)

18+

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THE MÖBIUS TRIP is screening in Glasgow and London this month at In Short, Europe 2024. As part of Strand 4: Psychodrama.

🎟️Glasgow Film Theatre, 21st April, 4:45 pm: glasgowfilm.org/movie/in-short…
🎟️Ciné Lumière, Institut français London, 28th April, 7:15 pm: institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/psychod…

Also showing at...
📽️GFT 17 April
📽️Exeter Phoenix 20 April
📽️ Storyhouse 25 April

More dates TBA!

SIVER HAZE is presented with Descriptive Subtitles and Audio Description

🎟️ bit.ly/SilverHaze-Rec…

Film Screening & Poetry Reading:
Ramona by Victoria Linares Villegas | Dominican Republic 2023 | 1h21m | Spanish with English Subtitles

‘Ramona’ offers a postmodern pastiche of class observed through the interplay of documentary, fiction, & theatre.
womenslibrary.org.uk/event/ramona-s…

A90 is now available to watch online via Short of the Week.

A90 follows the story of Annette, who lives a discontented life in a road-side cafe until Morgan enters one day and the pair become immediately transfixed by one another.

Watch the short➡️ shortoftheweek.com/2024/03/25/a90/

Producer?🚨 Don't forget to apply to BIFA Springboard, our programme to support second time feature film producers.

The 28 March deadline is fast approaching - so go, go, go!

bifa.film/news/24-25-app…

🎬 We are looking for people who are aged 15 - 26, interested in cinema, creating blogs and online content, and want to have a say in what kind of films we screen at Eden Court. Is this you?

➡️ Join Eden Court Cinema Youth Board! forms.gle/gHEV14ZNAEzVkr…

There's just one week left to apply to the Solace23 Script Circle workshop!

This will offer four writers and four producers the opportunity to develop their editorial skills and nurture projects in an intense but supportive environment 💡

Apply now:
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🌟 Special mention to BLACKWOOL at Glasgow Short Film Festival 🌟

The GSFF24 Scottish Short Film Award jury gave a special mention to Sharp Shorts supported BLACKWOOL directed by Eubha Akilade.

Read the announcement here - glasgowshort.org/announcing-the…

🎬 Submissions are now open for the 2025 BFI Future Film Festival! Want to be a part of the UK’s largest festival for young emerging filmmakers?

Regular deadline: 2 August 2024.

Submit here: theb.fi/3aNAcSY

SOUL. A fantastic morning with some of the team getting to watch our film on the big screen for the first time at the Short Circuit screening. It’s been a wild journey with this story and more to come! Huge congratulations to all the other teams on a incredible bunch of films!

We're supporting the Programmers in Conversation event at Glasgow Short Film Festival on 22nd Mar.

Panellists: Jason Anderson (@TIFF_NET & Aspen Film), Celine Roustan (@sxsw & Palm Springs Film Festival), and Jasper Hokken (@idfa).

🎟️ GSFF passholders can attend the event, and booking is recommended.

Short Circuit x GMAC Film Loop: 'Directing Actors' Workshop with Paul Sng

On 28th Mar, Paul Sng will lead two actors through a scene from his film ASKA, and finish with a screening of the short.

🎟️ This event is free, simply register your interest here fb.me/e/29buREZe6

On Friday we'll be participating in a Roundtable with Little Pictures at Glasgow Short Film Festival.

2 of our supported filmmakers, Marcella Nuke & Kat Tweedie, will talk about their journeys and experiences of our initiatives.

The event is now sold out. Go to the GSFF website for more.

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