The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and Shooters present 'Short Sighted', intensive days and sessions devoted to helping you get your short film exhibited and distributed.
"I think the Short Sighted event was the best £10 I've ever spent - priceless knowledge and contacts! Thank you! You'll also be pleased that I am now a Shooting People member!"
(Daniel Gill, director)
"Short Sighted was a great afternoon, both entertaining, perfectly delivered and very informative - a great event all round."
(Richard Lawson, director)
"Short Sighted was a very informative, up to date overview and insight into the constantly evolving short film industry. Having managed to have my short film screened in several festivals, online and in galleries internationally, and won a couple of awards, I wondered what else there was to know. I couldn't have been more wrong: after Sunday I now know I am just warming up and, if I put into action just some of the industrious tips and strategies suggested by the esteemed and highly knowledgeable panel, the best days are definitely ahead."
(Karen Palmer, director)
The inaugural Short Sighted event took place in September 2008, at BAFTA. Attendees enjoyed coffee, lunch, wine and a Little Black Book of useful contacts, resources and websites.
Shortsighted events are full of workshops, surgeries and networking opportunities aimed at those who have made a short film, and want to know what to do next. Previous speakers have joined us from MySpace?, YouTube?, Shorts International, Encounters, British Council, Film London, Filmaka, Cinelan, Daily Motion and BT Vision to name a few of many.
The sessions cover every step in the process of getting your film out to an audience and the people who might fund future work, from maximising your film's festival life to knowing the inside story on traditional short film sales to TV and DVD. They also aim to help you judge when and where to put your film online, to look at where short film exhibition is headed in this digital age, and how this might start to generate revenue for filmmakers.
Get your short film seen
by the people who matter.
If you'd like to keep up to date with this area, you should book mark Shooting People's acclaimed (http://shootingpeople.org/tools/ "Tools Blog")
Previous Short Sighted events:
- Edinburgh Film Festival, 23 July 2011
- Newcastle Tyneside Cinema, 21 June 2010
- Edinburgh Film Festival, 3 February 2010
- Branchage International Film Festival, 4 October 2009
- Abandon Normal Devices, 25 September 2009
- Edinburgh Film Festival, 21 June 2009
- Tyneside Cinema, 31 March 2009
- Birds Eye View Film Festival, 7 March 2009
- Encounters Short Film Festival, 20 November 2008
- BAFTA, 14 September 2008
"The event was motivating due to the knowledge of panel members as well as the clever filmmakers attending. Shooting People is 'as yellow as the generosity of a pineapple'." (Tontxi Vazquez, writer/producer)
"Short Sighted...was exactly the sort of crash course in short filmmaking, financing and distribution I would have loved to have attended as a starry-eyed teenage filmmaker". (Jonathan Ley, journalist)
Short Sighted in Liverpool
