edinburgh short film festival

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...

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...

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...

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

Our programme and dates for the Edinburgh Short Film Festival Programme at Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2017 have now been finalised and we're excited to be able to reveal details about the screenings! The festival was founded by actor Tetsuya Bessho and the first festival was held in...

Morgane Sarah Becerril directed ‘The Session’, An edgy, romantic-comedy set in a New York S & M dungeon, and tracing the developing relationship between Daphne, a newbie dominatrix and her client. The film screened at the 2016 Edinburgh Short Film Festival and also won 1st prize at the 2016...

Our austerity-beating submission fee this year, is a mere £12 per entry until Monday January 30th 2017 – after that date the submission fee will rise, so get your skates on..but please don't take it out on the intern if you miss it! Edinburgh Shorts Submissions

Not long now till we get off our bloated, festive behinds and open up the ESFF for 2017! In the meantime, in true Hogmanay spirit, we always like to have a wee look back at our last edition & it’s fair to say we were pretty pleased with the Edinburgh Short Film Festival 2016. Last Autumn, we...

Not long now till we get off our bloated, festive behinds and open up the ESFF for 2017! In the meantime, in true Hogmanay spirit, we always like to have a wee look back at our last edition & it’s fair to say we were pretty pleased with the Edinburgh Short Film Festival 2016. Last Autumn, we...

Edinburgh Shorts Film Festival Horror shorts reviewed by Ben Brown Review by Benjamin Brown A recent student on the MSc course in ‘Film, Exhibition and Curation’ at the University of Edinburgh, Benjamin has an unabated passion for the 7th art of the moving image and a truly eclectic taste in...

Edinburgh Shorts Script Pitch Competition Deadline looms! Time running out for young, Scottish screenwriters to enter the script pitch competition and win flights & tickets to the 2017 London Screenwriters as well as industry mentoring! Deadline is midnight on Sunday...