The Tribeca Film Fest is over, and the majority of the shorts we featured last week are no longer available. As a parting gift however, the festival has made 7 new short films, plus 2011 fave Mr.
This is the second part of our coverage of the 9 in-competition short films Tribeca (Online) has made available, and the 3rd (and last) post overall in our coverage of Tribeca 2011 Online Films. You can still see part 1 and our post on the 9 retrospective shorts, but you only have a few more days to catch them.
Friday I reviewed the 9 retrospective short films available to watch for free in the Tribeca Streaming Room. They underwhelmed me, which I found oddshouldn't the program have been comprised of nothing but slam-dunk, all-star selections? Anyway, today we shift focus to the films that are actual 2011 Tribeca Film Fest selections, and fortunately I think they are much better.
Tribeca's (Online) Film Festival this year is quite extensive: 6 feature films, 9 in-competition shorts and these9 "retro" shorts from the festival's past, all available for free! We'll cover this year's competition shorts in a series of forthcoming posts, but remember that Tribeca has their own spin on this online thing, so make sure to reserve a 24-hour screening window for each film in advance. These 9 retro shorts are a bit easier to manage, rather than signing up for specific 24-hour screening periods, they are available to view at any time between now and May 1st.
It is April 18th, the first day in which you can make reservations via Tribeca's new online distribution system in order to "virtually attend" the screenings of 9 new short films, 9 "classic" shorts and 6 new features. The process is really simple.
Yesterday Sci-Fi London concluded its annual 48-hour filmmaking contest. There are a lot of 48 hour competitions, but Sci-Fi London has created a fairly robust community around theirs, with over 174 teams completing an entry this year, each hoping to be the next Gareth Edwards.
Its been a couple of days since Andrew's article detailing the path we took in putting our short film The Thomas Beale Cipher online. Some folks have taken it as an attack on film festivals, and I won't say that they're completely wrong about that.
Last week we introduced the GoShort Festival's online slate of short films, providing quickie reviews of 5 of the 10 selected films. Today we finish up the coverage by taking a look at the remaining 5 films.
The 2011 Movie Extra Tropfest short film festival took place today in Australia, and of the 16 films, Animal Beatbox by Damon Gameau was declared the winner. [caption id="attachment_4816" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Click to Watch "Animal Beatbox""][/caption] The field was strong this year, with Joel Edgerton of the Blue-Tongue Collective represented for his film Monkeys, as well Mankind is No Island filmmaker and prior winner of Tropfest New York, Jason Van Genderen for The Unspoken.
It may not be Sundance or Cannes, but out of Nijmegen, Netherlands, the GoShort International Film Festivalan exciting, young European Short Film Festhas put together a rather nice online program in support of it's 3rd edition next month. From now until March 31st, the festival will be showing 10 short films on its website, ranging from 2min to 7min30.
