Welcome to the South
Shorts Website
South
Shorts is back to celebrate
film making and local talent in and around the South East
coast.
South
Shorts Film
Competition – running for the third
year – seeks to encourage and support emerging, amateur and locally committed
filmmakers by providing opportunities to showcase and promote their films.
South
Shorts accepts short films in
all genres, up to 20-min long. The award categories include Cinematography,
Innovation, and Story. Awarded films are selected by a panel and win
prizes.
South
Shorts is organised by WOW and Worthing Film Club in partnership with TVFP - the Television and Film Production Course at the University of Portsmouth.
Entry
Requirements:
- Films must be less than 20 minutes in length;
- The films should be either made about, located in or by filmmakers
based in Kent, Sussex, Surrey or Hampshire.
- Films can be from any genre or style.
Prizes:
- At least four cash prizes will be awarded, plus other forms of support and advice to film makers
- All longlisted films will be screened at a special event at The
Denton Lounge, Worthing on Thursday 9th June with prizes awarded that evening at
a special gala event.
Prizes shall be given in the following
categories:
- Best Film
- Best Cinematography
- Most Innovative Filmmaking
- Best Story
How To Enter:
1. Entry is free
2. Entries must be in the following
formats:
1 x copy Data
disc Codec: H.264 or file type: . Mov.
PLUS either 1
x DVD playable in standard DVD player OR a link to website (Vimeo / Youtube
etc) where the film can be viewed.
All discs must
have following information written on them:
Title
Director
Contact
number
3. All entries must have on a
separate piece of paper the following piece of
information:
1.
Title
2. Name of
Director (s)
3. Date film
was made
4. Names of
all crew
5. Names of
all actors / character names
6. brief plot
summary / description (max 100 words - to be used in our programme notes for all
shortlisted screened films)
7. An
explanation of how your work relates to the the South East of England (eg was
the film made here / do you or any of the principle cast or crew live or work
here / was it influenced in some way by the area? etc)
8. A brief
explanation of your motivations or influences in making the film
(OPTIONAL)
4. Entries should be sent to:
Worthing
WOW
South Shorts
Competition,
PO Box
4947
WORTHING BN11
9YQ
5.All entries to be received by 1st May
2016
Longlisted entries will be contacted prior to our gala
event.
Judges decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into
once a decision has been made.
All screenings shall take place at The Denton Lounge, Worthing
Seafront, BN11
