The renewed online entry is now open for the 8th BuSho International Short Film Festival (Budapest, 4–9. September 2012). We accept shorts made after 1. January 2010, under 30 minutes in the categories of fiction, animation and experimental films. From this year we can only accept shorts that is registered through our online system except if a studio, school or workshop enters 5 or more shorts, they can send them in on DVD. All the films must have English subtitles except the original language is English or the film is without dialogue.
Entry deadline: 30. April 2012.
Expected decision of the pre-jury: 15. June 2012.
Online entry and regulations here - http://busho.hu/en/entry/regulations
About BuSho
BuSho (Budapest Short) was established in the autumn of 2004 by a group of young Hungarian filmmakers and the first event successfully ran its course the following year. The festival became an international breakthrough in an exceptionally short period of time: we got 630 individual entries from 62 countries in 2008. We had plenty of festival screenings, selections of film academies, feature films, conferences, film-, and all-art workshops in the program.
Our main target group is the generation of developing young filmmakers but we are very delighted at every entry. You can enter in three categories: fiction, animation and experimental.
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The festival was born to give the more and more thriving short film-society a scene the introduce itself, and to give young titans the possibility to prove their talent in an international field. We invite every year filmmakers and leaders from Filmmaking workshops in order to offer these communities a lucid and pleasurable being together, promoting at the same time the knowing of each other’s values. Beyond the outings of individual filmmakers we had screenings of the winners of international filmfestivals and a conference negotiating the situation and the possibilities of co-operation of young European filmmakers. We offer European youngsters one chance to know the alternatives of cooperation and of safeguarding and exercising their interests.
Our mission is to develop the cultural identity of the audiovisual sector of Eastern and Central Europe. Following the second festival we passed a 6-hour selection of Hungarian short films to 30 European festivals, which unburdens the getting into the market of young European professionals and the promotion and distribution of the screened European films. In the long term we would like to make up Central-Eastern-European selections and convey them to other participants of the audiovisual sector which could strengthen cooperation among European festivals.
The main organizer (the Foundation) is a non-governmental organization, and so is the major part of its co-operating partners, so the collaboration between the non-profit sector and cultural institutions is essential to have the project succeded. The essence of this success is to motivate common activity among young inland filmmakers and other European organizations taking part in the audiovisual program. We would like to give young European filmmakers a fair show to introduce and realize themselves in order to create a new common European value in which the supranational dimension is given by the participant countries.
Since the cessation of festivals you can see international short films once in a blue moon, because they are not screened neither at cinemas or at television broadcastings. So we would like to show the shorts shot in the preceding years, giving the viewers a chance to see these works. At the Oscar-nomination of the animation film entitled Maestro – which was given two prizes at BuSho - everybody was very suspenseful, at the end the outcoming winner was not accompanyed by so much attendance. If somebody was interested which film was to beat „Maestro” in such a hard battle could see „The Danish Poet” at the first evening of the following BuSho festival.
The festival is free for the public right from the start, accomodation and full board are provided for the international professional scientists and filmmakers and for the staff taking part in the organization. The main target audience of the international festival is the upcoming young generation of filmmakers, but we are open to entries in 3 categories (experimental, fiction and animation.) We have screenings in 3 halls (competition program, information screenings, festival selections) among the traditional confines and full house of the competition program seems to certify us. Concerning the overall influence on the audience we have the buzz that they start to believe that we need this here in Hungary, because this kind of short film festival was missing.
The program is one-of-a-kind Hungary, because this is the only festival in Hungary which screens exclusively short films. The international response is bigger and bigger every year, the number of artist and workshops telling their intent to take part in the event is continuosly growing. We emphasise the accompanying programs, too, we have international Folk, Etno and world music concerts, exhibitions and performances. We screen every evening a feature film, with English subtitles.
Details on: www.busho.hu
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