Festival

Festival presentation: 

Go Short is an annual new, refreshing film festival for European short films. It is a unique event in The Netherlands at which the audience is treated to short films. The festival's main location is the local multifunctional arthouse LUX.

Go Short is the Dutch festival for short film. For five days, around 300
short films are screened in Nijmegen. Besides screenings there are
exhibitions, workshops, performances, parties and more!

Established in 2008 Go Short shows a wide variation of short films, most
of them made by young, talented filmmakers from all over Europe. The
festival's main program contains national, international, student and
online competitions (containing fiction, animation, documentary and art
film). The student competition, Breaking Shorts, is selected by the
student film platform Breaking Ground. Competitions are judged by
multiple professional juries. Go Short also presents multiple out-of-competition-programs.

Festival Nickname: 

Go Short

Edition: 

5

Festival Logo: 

Theme: 

Animation

European Films

Student films

Category/Format: 

Animated Films

Documentaries

Experiment

Short films

Student film

Go Short -
International Short Film Festival Nijmegen is accepting new submissions

Festival
dates:  13 – 17 March 2013

Our entry form and regulations can be found on http://www.goshort.nl/submit

The Go Short festival team has started preparing its fifth edition,
which will take place in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Go Short is the only Dutch film
festival that screens short films exclusively. For five days around 300 short
films are screened in various locations. Besides screenings there are
exhibitions, workshops, performances, parties and more!

We are now accepting new film submissions for our various competitions.
All shorts completed after 1 September 2011 are eligible to compete in our
competition programs, student shorts even from 1 March 2011. We will be selecting
films for our European, Dutch and Student Competitions.

Competitions and awards
Go Short
accepts all genres in short films for its competition programs, divided in the
genres animation, documentary, fiction/live-action and experimental/art film.
The short films that will be selected for the European Competition are eligible
for the Go Short awards for the best short in each genre. The national short
films will be competing for the Go Short award for the best Dutch short.
One of the student films will be awarded with the Encouragement award for the
best European student short. Besides all these awards per competition, all
films will also be in the running for the Go Short Audience Award which will be
chosen by the audience during the festival.

Deadlines
- 17 August 2012 for films completed between
1 September 2011 (student films from 1 March, 2011) and 31 December 2011.
- 1 November 2012 for all films completed in 2012.
- 1 December 2012 for films that will have their international or world
premiere at Go Short.

Requirements
1) Films must be completed after 1 September 2011 (student films completed
after 1 March 2011)
2) The maximum running time is 40 minutes
3) The origin must be (geographical) Europe
4) 3 DVD’s for preview purposes

After filling out the online entry form through our website, please send 3
DVD’s of your film(s) to the following address:

Go Short
Attn. Program Department
PO BOX 1449
6501 BK Nijmegen
the Netherlands

Phone: +31 24 6636789
Entry[at]goshort.nl
www.goshort.nl

To enter your film,
visit: www.goshort.nl/submit.