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Edinburgh Short Film Festival:Shorts News

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Fred Martin of Brussels Short Film Festival Q & A with Aidan Stanley of RTE at the 2021 Edinburgh Short Film Festival Filmed & edited by Melanie Toutakova
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We continue our series of filmmaker interviews with the courageous documentary maker, Zeynep Kececiler. Zeynep is a Turkey-based award winning documentary-maker whose Somalia shot documentary, Miro's Journey, an amazing doc about a mother who raises her children by drug dealing in Somalia was...
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One of our guest curators for our 2019 edition was Paul Stekler, award-winning documentary filmmaker and head of the Doc school at the University of Texas film school. Prof. Stekler’s films have won two Peabody Awards, three du Pont-Columbia University Journalism Awards, three Emmy Awards and...
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The third in our series of filmmaker interviews features Scottish filmmaker Tom Gentle, who’s powerful adaptation of Alistair Macleod’s short story was screened at the 2019 ESFF and won our award for Best Scottish Short Film. Interview shot and edited by Amanda Rogers of RPP Productions.
Our second filmmaker interview of 2020 is with the award-winning Estonian director Madli Laane who's engrossing coming-of-age drama THREE AUGUST DAYS was featured at last year's Edinburgh Short Film Festival. The film follows a young Estonian girl living in Tallinn during the fall of the Soviet...
The first in our series of filmmaker interviews for 2020 is with Blomme Molenstra, whose comedy short film ON THE ROAD screened at the 2019 Edinburgh Short Film Festival. A witty and charming short film, On The Road was a staff favourite from last year and features the wonderful comic creation...
We're still open for entries for our 2020 edition which is scheduled to run Oct 22 - Nov 8th, Should circumstances change, our intention is to hold the screenings over the first available dates around that period. It's our 10th anniversary edition, with extra screenings & presenting awards for...
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Our 10th anniversary special edition! Featuring the best short films of 2020 at international film festivals, AND Presenting awards and trophies for the best films selected by our juries Regular Deadline: May 24th 2019 This year, we're also excited to be programming films and film...
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The 10th Anniversary edition of the ESFF with more short film screenings in Edinburgh, International Film Festival showcases, trophies, cash prizes and awards! We're also excited to be programming showcases of our best films for our 2020 partners: Adriatic Film Festival Stop Motion Montreal...
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Edinburgh Short Film Festival interviews director Dan Schwarz about his edgy, dark comedy short 'Ritual' which screened at the 2018 Edinburgh Short Film Festival, it's funny, wicked and was a popular entry at the 2019 ESFF! video produced by Amanda Rogers and RPP Productions
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Here’s a short video of some of the highlights from the 2018 Edinburgh Short Film Festival! Thanks to all the film-makers who participated and looking forward to seeing your next films, Filmed and edited by the talented and indefatigable Amanda Rogers ESFF 2018 HIGHLIGHTS
Edinburgh Short Film Festival has just broadcast the latest edition of Cinetopia, the radio show for film enthusiasts! The February edition covers the Oscars, A kind of Seeing & Gabrielle Brady, Director of Island of Hungry Ghosts. Reviews & discussions as well as a lovely set of film-related...
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Excited to announce that the Edinburgh Short Film Festival has won Take One Magazine’s Best Festival award for 2018! https://www.edinburghshortfilmfestival.com/edinburgh-short-ff-wins-best-festival-award-from-take-one-magazine/
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Featuring the best short films of 2019 at international film festivals We're screening 8 nights of short film at cinemas across Edinburgh in 2019 Presenting awards and trophies for the best films selected by our jury for Best Film, & Best Animation & Best Scottish Short! This year, we're...
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A very cool trailer for the 2018 Edinburgh Short Film Festival a sneak preview of some of this year's outstanding, multi-award winning programme, Opens Friday 26th October Edited by Amanda Rogers, music by Callum Rankine of BoxMusic
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Covering everything from the latest film reviews, interviews, updates from the world of film and film events almost everywhere, ‘Cinetopia’ is a new monthly radio show produced by some of the people behind the Edinburgh Short Film Festival! The show is hosted by Radio Summerhall and the pilot...
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Taking short film to the masses and blogging about short film around the world, The Festival also makes awards with cash prizes for Best Film, & Best Animation & Best Scottish Short! This year, we're also excited to be programming films for our 2018 partners: Mecal - the Barcelona...
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Edinburgh Short Film Festival - Submissions Now Open for 2018! Screening the best in International contemporary short film & programming for other festivals across the UK & Internationally, the ESFF is now open for submission for short film-makers! We're offering cash prizes for Best Film...
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At the closing night of the 2017 Edinburgh Short Film Festival,we were able to give a warm welcome to Aidan Stanley the Chairman of the Fastnet Film Festival, who had travelled from Schull in West Cork, where the festival is based, to this year's events in Edinburgh. We were happy to play host...
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Excited to unveil our new 2017 ESFF trailer! Edited by the faboulous Finn Kati Nieman and a specially composed soundtrack craftily created by the cunning Callum Rankine! TRAILER

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