AWARDS & PRIZES
AWARD CATEGORIES
- Best Short Film
- Best Experimental Short Film
- Bet Animation Short Film
- Best Student Short Film
- Best Director
- Best Original Score
- Best Editing
- Best Cinematography
- Best Screenplay
- Best Art Direction
- Best Leading Actor
- Best Leading Actress
- Best Supporting Actor
- Best Supporting Actress
All officially selected projetcs receive the Short Encounters IFF official laurel and the customised digital certificate of achievement according to their final status in the competition (Nominees and Award Winners).
Besides the Major Award for each category, it can also be given Short Encounters Grand Jury Awards, Honourable Mentions, The Special SEIFF Talent Award for ages under 16 and the SHORT ENCOUNTERS AWARD eligible ONLY for No/Low budget short films.
ANNUAL AWARD WINNERS
- Best Short Film of the Annual edition receives
Winner laurel, Framed Certificate, SEIFF Trophy, Cash Prize - Best Director of the Annual edition receives
Winner laurel, Framed Certificate, SEIFF Trophy, Cash Prize - All other categories receive
Winner laurels, Framed Certificates
I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted. I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That's all there is to me.I am not a special person, I am not especially strong; I am not especially gifted. I simply do not like to show my weakness, and I hate to lose, so I am a person who tries hard. That's all there is to me.
The belief that only the mastery of hardware seperates us from directing is to confuse learning a language with storytelling.
If you are love movie enough, you can make a good one.
The key think is that the technology does not dictate the Art; the Art dictates the technology. The Art comes first.
If technological evolution constituted a criterion, we couldn't claim that cinema is Art.
Cinema has become my life. I don't mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the saily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.
The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art.