Short Short Story Film Festival
- About
- Submission Info
The Short Short Story Film Festival is a competitive international festival of films that tell a story in under six minutes.
The festival celebrates brevity in filmmaking, with films from across the globe, both live-action and animated.
Two programs, Heartstrings and Headtrip, both showcase dozens of films tightly sequenced in under ninety minutes, each with a distinctive tone yet wide-ranging styles and topics.
Year established: 2007
Is this festival exclusively animation?: No - this is a film festival but with a specific animation category
Is there a marketplace at this festival?: No
Physical event or online?: Physical Festival
Submission deadline:
16 October 2023
Entry fee:
FREE! There is no charge for this festival
Categories:
- Jury Grand Prize (Heartstrings and Headtrip)
- Audience Award (Heartstrings and Headtrip)
Submission methods:
- Online Upload (via festival site)
Requirements:
Submission Requirements
There is no fee to submit a film for consideration.
The length of the film including all credits must be at least 1 minute (1:00:00) and shorter than 6 minutes (5:59:xx).
The film must tell a story; this excludes public service announcements, trailers, music videos, non-narrative experimental pieces, etc.
Whether a piece is truly narrative is at the discretion of the submission review panel.
All genres and styles are considered, including live action and animation, documentary and fiction, drama and comedy, etc.
For 2023, we prefer films completed in 2022 or 2023. Earlier films are ineligible. For 2023, SSSFF was selected as a BIFA Qualifying Film Festival.
Festival recognised by: (what does this mean?)
- European Film Academy
Link to Submit
