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STTP Projects
Short to the Point is an international distribution link, broadcasting and promoting short films.
Starting from 2009, Short to the Point's objective is to constatly promote this side of cinema.
1. Short Film Factory- With the motto "Don't let your movie get dusty on the shelf!", SPS offers proffesionals the possibility of signing up their films, older than 5 years, that will later on be projected in over 20 citys in Romania and abroad.
2. STTP LOW/NO BUDGET OSFF- " Any story can be made into a film" is the division with whom STTP attracts film amateurs (unproffesionals) to test their creativity, directing films low/no budget for the short film contest Short to the point Low/No Budget Online Short Film Festival.
3. STTP Talent Camp- STTP Talent Camp wishes to promote romanian film at national and international level. STTP Talent Camp also wants to discover and promote young cinema talents, by offering colaboration opportunities, exchange of experience and ideas or by participating in the thematic workshops presented by wellknown proffesionals. STTP Talent Camp reunites young romanian cinema talents within the interactive workshop that takes place each year in Raciu, Mures County
4. Walls tell stories- Every two years, STTP goes thrue the longest tour of a Romanian Short Film Festival. The caravan lasts 45 days and includes 29 cities:Buzau, Slobozia, Galati, Ramnicu Sarat, Focsani, Bacau, Iasi, Piatra Neamt, Suceava, Bistrita, Borsa, Baia Mare, Satu Mare, Oradea, Caransebes, Resita, Timisoara, Hunedoara, Deva, Alba iulia, Cluj, Targu Mures, Sighisoara, Sibiu, Valcea, Pitesti, Ploiesti, Brasov, Fagaras.
5. Kara Film Fest- The only Short Film Festival for children in Romania. It's being held anually,in several cities in Romania.
6. BUCHAREST INTERNATIONAL TOURISM FILM FESTIVAL – Tourism is the essential element in a city's life and film is the perfect mecanism for promoting such a product. Combining the two, a proffesional environment is created, perfect for cultural-tourism evolution of Bucharest. BITFF is taking place every two years, in March and October, in Bucharest.
Distribution, broadcasting and promoting
Short films don't have a long life. In theory, a filmmaker can make is work known just within short film festivals. Short to the Point comes with many promoting opportunities , broadcasting and distribution of the films signed up in the festival. SPS offers proffesionals and amateurs the possibility of watching their work on tv, cinemas, unconventional spaces, online and on DVD.
Contest
Every year, in May, Short to the point organizes a short film contest, wich takes place online and is recomended especially to amateurs. The participant films are made within the sistem low/no budget and can be made even with the mobile phone.
Education
Short to the point has launched the first film school for kids in Romania. The classes take place periodly,as a workshop in wich young people can experiment with video techniques,montage, directing or scenografy, sound and film, makeup etc.
Director: Daniel Wilson.
Richard walks out of his house and his world is turned upside down as he is stopped in the street, handcuffed, hooded and thrown in a van. Under the spotlight of the interrogators lamp, what will he give up to spare himself?
Director: Martin Pavey.
When SARAH finally achieves success, her life is shattered
by the violent death of her husband JOHN.
Haunted by his memory SARAH is plunged into the torment of Agoraphobia.
Disturbing dreams and flashbacks lead her to a revelation, a moment in time and
a decision that could change everything.
Director: Aaron Arendt.
Dr. Price is a brilliant scientist who has created the ultimate weapon, a Remote-Operated, Nocturnally Aggressive, Lizard Device (R.O.N.A.L.D.) Once completed, it will be an unstoppable recovery and reconnaissance force, capable of evading high-tech security systems and taking down anyone in its way. But Price has a couple problems. He’s a junkie, he’s in debt to Jonas Caine, Metro Valley’s most powerful gangster who commissioned the weapon for a diamond heist, and the robot’s behavioral aspects are bit on the touchy side.
While Price works in the lab, Jonas Caine is cooking up the robbery plans with his Japanese counterpart, Tokyo crime-boss Takashi Sagawas. The diamonds, stolen from the Sagawas family several generations ago, are being stored in a secret Metro Valley location. As long as the R.O.N.A.L.D. cooperates, damage will be minimal, the crime will be untraceable, and everyone will get paid.
But when the R.O.N.A.L.D. is accidently activated after a routine drug exchange, and two cops are viciously killed in a dark inner-city alley, Price has no choice but to destroy the device to end the killing spree, and now has only days to recreate it.
Meanwhile Metro Valley police force Detectives Jarvish and Shortridge, slighted by their inability to arrest Caine in the past, hear rumors of the heist plans and start investigating. They suspect Caine is somehow tied to the unsolved alley murders as well, and sense a huge career-enhancing bust on their horizon.
With Metro Valley police detectives hot on the case and Caine threatening to kill him if he doesn’t meet the deadline by the night of the robbery, Price is under the gun to deliver a new and improved weapon, or figure out a way to pull off the heist himself!
The Diamonds of Metro Valley is inspired by diamond heist films of the 1970’s, but with an added tinge of the retro-futuristic. Filmed almost entirely on green screen, the backgrounds for each scene were individually designed shot by shot. Exciting sequences include a twelve inch robot growing to the height of a three story building, numerous gun-battles and explosions, and a thirteen minute car chase created with model cars and live action. Several years in the making, each scene in DMV has been painstaking handcrafted with multiple design and digital effects elements, effectively contributing to the unique look of this hand-made, DIY project.
The 7th Asiana International Short Film Festival (AISFF2009) is the one and only international competitive short film festival in Korea. AISFF, searching a new territory and exit for short film, is the place where all the shorts from the world are coming across, communicating and of course fairly competing.
The Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival is a week long film festival and cultural organization, founded in 2006, by filmmaker and artist Harish Saluja. It is purposefully held every May during Asian American Heritage Month in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to show recent films and music by Asian artists.
Director: Ernesto McCausland.
Odalis arrives in an old Caribeean town where her aunt and her grandfather are the only family members left. As soon as she arrives, her aunt Ilba tells her all about her mother and father's history. It is tough truth, but Odalis needs to know it. Her father died in a ship wreck, 30 years ago. At that time her mother was pregnant, which outraged her grandfather. Thus, through a dream, Odalis will find the definite truth of her life.
Bornshorts 2009
28 - 29 August
Denmark
An International short film festival for imaginative and creative directors, producers & cinematographers. You can submit short fiction up to 30min, animation or music video.
Open for submissions until 15 July 2009
www.bornshorts.com
Interrobang Film Festival combines a traditional
film production festival with a public screening at the Des Moines Arts Festival.
- Supported by the the City of Paris and chaired by actress Charlotte Rampling, the festival takes place each year throughout the capital early summer in over 15 different theatres in Paris and grows every year with record attendance.
www.unlimited-festival.de
From 18 to 23 November, the festival will present the latest productions from all over Europe, from North Rhine-Westphalia as well as from both Cologne's Universities.
An extensive additional program including talks and forum events will bring together filmmakers and audience.
Deadline for entries is 31 July 2009.
Online entry is possible via www.reelport.com
11th TDF: AWARDS - EMPARGO 21.00 CET, SATURDAY MARCH 22
AUDIENCE AWARDS
Sponsored by the Hellenic Red Cross
The Hellenic Red Cross Audience Award for a film over 45’ in the International Selection, accompanied by Euros 4,000, goes to:
BURMA VJ - REPORTING FROM A CLOSED COUNTRY (BURMA VJ - REPORTER I ET LUKKET LAND) by Anders Hosbro Ostergaard, Denmark, 2008
The Hellenic Red Cross Audience Award for a film under 45’ in the International Selection, accompanied by Euros 2,000...
Director: Wieland Schulz-Keil, Dan Tang.
The film consist of four portraits of Peking opera performers, two adults and two children. It presents a subtle picture of the present cultural-political climate in China. Peking Opera often seems puzzling and out of place, even in China. Its style is the opposite of naturalism: It is perfectly possible that young girls play elderly generals, or that a young male actor performs the heroine's sword dance from "Farewell my Concubine." The radical artificiality of Peking Opera has often met resistance. During the Cultural Revolution of the 60s and 70s, it was considered decadent and was outlawed. Today it seems hopelessly old-fashioned compared to the new currents of popular culture. -- While visiting a Peking Opera school the filmmakers met a number of teachers and pupils who are working hard and with admirable devotion to keep their highly refined music and dance theatre alive. The theatre people not only taught them about their century old Chinese art form, but also about their lives in the midst of a mostly imported new culture.
Director: Przemek Mlynczyk.
Before joining the Salesians, Przemek Kawecki (Kawa) was a skinhead. The unexpected trip to the Tatra mountains with his friend, has changed his life totally The film tells the story of a young Pole who, having all the possibilities of career, desides to become a monk. The current reality of Poland has a lot of problems that he will be forced to solve. Some of them are too hard at the moment.
Director: Joseph Varley.
What is it like to die? Five people who've died and come back all speak of a wonderful homecoming or greeting into the afterlife. Those with lost loved ones can know that they’re are all at peace now, happy, and more alive than ever. No matter what your faith may be, it will be strengthened as you hear five people testify about their greeting into the afterlife and what they’ve all been told as to the purpose of their life here on earth. In this documentary, hear Julie, Sue Ann, Scott, Beverly and Suzanne speak of a wonderful place that we're all headed and their experiences going HOME AND BACK.
The aim of the Granada Film Festival "Cines del Sur" ("Cinemas from the
South") is to disseminate and promote films made in the countries of
the so-called geopolitical south. Thus, the Festival will provide a
space for the meeting of both young filmmakers and established talents
from these countries, allowing for the screening of both new
productions and emblematic and historic works.
www.whitby-in-shorts.org.uk
Tours-Métrages, festival du film de l'étrange et de l'imaginaire propose une compétition de courts-métrages sur tout thème étrange, imaginaire, décalé.
Director: Mehdi Arjmand.
An enigmatic journey to find "Sean Penn" during his travel to Iran, by some one who reminds his memories through history and mind. Full with interviews about Sean Penn and his style of acting, and historical hints of America and Iran's relationship, film makes a puzzle of adventures and inspirations.
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