The International Festival of Very Shorts
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The Festival International des Très Courts is an international film festival
of Shorts
created in 1999 and held each year in dozens of cities simultaneously.
The festival aims to promote the promotion of films in the Very Short format (3 minutes maximum, excluding title and credits). Productions come from all over the world. The International Selection broadcasts simultaneously in all participating cities.
. Programming by Tres d'Esprit and broadcasting by Nanospheres Productions. In each city, local companies govern their festival. Each year approximately 50 short films are selected from over 1000 viewed, from all continents. Then the films are submitted to a jury to deliver three awards: the Grand Prix, the prize for animation and the originality prize. A fourth, the public prize, is awarded on the internet by the public. Cities and countries may have their own selection in addition to the International Selection, for example the Quebec festival for 2009 had a category of films made in Quebec
Film festival
A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...
of Shorts
Short subject
A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all...
created in 1999 and held each year in dozens of cities simultaneously.
The festival aims to promote the promotion of films in the Very Short format (3 minutes maximum, excluding title and credits). Productions come from all over the world. The International Selection broadcasts simultaneously in all participating cities.
The Eleventh Edition
The 11th Festival was held on 24th 25th and 26th of April 2009, in 71 cities spread over 17 countries. The International Selection included 52 films from 19 countries.Organization of the Festival
International coordination of the festival is managed from ParisParis
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. Programming by Tres d'Esprit and broadcasting by Nanospheres Productions. In each city, local companies govern their festival. Each year approximately 50 short films are selected from over 1000 viewed, from all continents. Then the films are submitted to a jury to deliver three awards: the Grand Prix, the prize for animation and the originality prize. A fourth, the public prize, is awarded on the internet by the public. Cities and countries may have their own selection in addition to the International Selection, for example the Quebec festival for 2009 had a category of films made in Quebec