short::seasons short film festival

The short::seasons project films are an opportunity for a Canberran filmmaker to get a bit of cash, use of some equipment and heaps of support from the short::seasons team to make a film for the next short::seasons film festival.

Project Funding

To apply for funding, you need to email or post us your script you'd like to see made into a film along with a Project Film Entry Form. The short::seasons team will pick the best idea from the bunch and help make it happen. One script is selected per season of the festival (two per year).

The requirements that must be met are:
· You must live in Canberra or the Canberra Region
· Your script should be for a film under 10 minutes in duration
· Your story must be set in Canberra
· Your story must be set in the season of the festival it will be made for
· Your script must be producible: e.g. copyright songs are expensive and herds of elephants are hard to find, so consider not having things like that in your script.

There are a couple of additional requirements for music videos:
· The music must be original (no covers)
· The musician/s must also live in Canberra or the Canberra Region
· A bio of the musician/s and the song must be submitted
· You must work out an agreement with the band regarding distribution of any future revenue (prizes etc) from the music video (short::seasons does not take any prizes or revenue)
· As with a script, your treatment must still be producible, including any postproduction magic: e.g. a music video with 100 seamless transitions can be made on this budget, but you (and we) need to consider whether it can be done in the timeframe!

If your script is selected, you will be provided with a budget of $500 cash to go towards making the film. You are also given use of an edit suite for use on this project. The short::seasons team will help as much or as little as required.

Submissions are not being taken at present as the festival is in hiatus.
Keep an eye on this site to see when the next round of entries is called.

previous project films
For information on previous recipients of the short::seasons project film funding including Joe Kisch & Bruce Davie's Blind Love, The Holgate Brothers' The G.P., Belinda Barancewicz's Breeding Souls, David Easteal's In Bad Taste, Kathryn Goldie's Shed, Stuart Roberts' For What It's Worth and Beneta Hadzi-Popovic's Small Things.

Below are some pics from the production of the winter'007 project film
'Get Off!' by Benoit McCullough.