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SUBMISSIONS: OPEN YEAR ROUND

UPCOMING DEADLINES: April 15, 2012
AWARD ANNOUNCEMENTS: 15 days after deadline.

ABOUT

TELUS presents SHORTSNONSTOP, an initiative of the Canadian Film Centre’s Worldwide Short Film Festival. SHORTSNONSTOP is a year round online mobile film festival that you can experience anytime or anyplace.

AWARDS

In each award period, 10 finalists will be selected. These top 10 films will be promoted and distributed on a one year only exclusive basis in Canada throughout TELUS’ mobile networks. From the Top 10, one winner will be selected and awarded a cash prize of $1500 (CAD). Furthermore, the 4 annual winners will be considered to screen as part of the pre-screening presentation at the 2010 Worldwide Short Film Festival.

New Shortsnonstop Audience Choice Award – sponsored by iThentic. Viewers vote and the winner with the most votes wins an iPad. Audience Award deadline runs one month after entry deadline. So, your friends and fans votes still count one month after the published deadline. So, the earlier you submit your film, the more time your project has to gather its votes and win! Voting extended until Monday, November 28th, 11:59 pm Pacific Standard Time

CATEGORIES

All categories and genres of short film are accepted, including drama, comedy, animation, horror, sci-fi, documentary, experimental and music videos.

ELIGIBILITY

  • All intellectual property (copyright, music, trademarks, logos, etc) must be cleared
  • English language (spoken or clearly subtitled) or no dialogue only
  • Running time no more than 3 minutes
  • Any country of origin acceptable
  • Completed since January 1, 2005
  • Exclusive Canadian mobile distribution rights must be available for one year only
  • Previous short film festival screenings acceptable
  • No porn, no extreme violence
  • Must be copyright cleared

SELECTION

The Festival programmers will view all submissions and select the top 10 finalists. A Jury will select award winners. Decisions of the programmers and Jury are final.

NOTIFICATION

Participants will be notified via email, please ensure that you provide a working email address.

FESTIVAL TERMS

TELUS, the presenting sponsor of SHORTSNONSTOP will retain exclusive Canadian mobile rights, and non-exclusive online rights, including IPTV to the top 10 films submitted to SHORTSNONSTOP for a period of one year.

Ready to Submit?

You must complete 2 forms to complete your application:
1.Your Author Profile (or if you’ve done this already simply LOG IN) and,
2.Your FESTIVAL ENTRY FORM (You must be logged in to view the entry form)

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