SITE

Number of Featured  Films on the Site in 2017: 300

Number of News Pieces + Articles: 51

Total Hours of Programming: 59 hours 35 min

Number of Paid Submissions: 3254

Accepted Films: 141, a 5.6% Acceptance Rate

 

CREATORS + CONTENT

Avg. Film Length: 12 min

Films Under 5min: 31

Films Over 20min: 44

% of Films w/ a Female Director: 24%

% of Films that were Crowdfunded – 16.1%

% of Student Films – 12.6%

% of Filmmakers with Representation – 18%

Average Budget: $18766 

Median Budget: $6000

Country of Origin:   USA: 53%; UK: 16.6%; Canada: 8.7%; Rest of the World: 21.7%

Animation: 62 – 20.6%

Documentaries: 56 – 18.6%

 

AUDIENCE

The Most Viewed Films on the Site

  1. Hot Seat
  2. Strange Thing About the Johnsons
  3. Happiness
  4. Cuck
  5. The Alchemist’s Letter

Total Minutes Viewed Onsite: 27,118,158 or 451,969 hours

Biggest Year Over Year Audience Growth: India

Interview

Interview with Jonathan & Josh Baker (BAG MAN)

Leaving you with more questions than answers, it would have felt wrong to let the recently featured short film 'BAG MAN' pass-by without talking a bit more about the filmmaking and storytelling involved. Having tried to leave the article on the film as vague as possible to avoid spoiling the impact of the movie, we took the chance to speak to directorial duo Jonathan & Josh Baker about their head-turner of a short.