Dragon Award New Talent at Future Shorts

Short film festival Future Shorts screens all films submitted to the Dragon Award New Talent on a videomat during their ‘Hide + Seek’ screening in Gothenburg on January 28th.

Future Shorts began as a monthly short film festival in London in 2003 and has since grown into a global network. The motivation is a passion about short film as an artform in its own right and a wish to deliver great short films to  enthusiastic audiences around the world. Future Shorts nights are not just about film screenings, they're meeting places that often include music, vjing and the possibility to have a beer and a chat. The ambition is to create a culture around short film, a forum where people can discover new favorite directors and become inspired. And Future Shorts strongly believe that short film can attract a wider audience.

-We've had two nights in Gothenburg and discovered that there is a huge interest. There's been a fantastic atmosphere in the audience, you can tell that people are really enjoying it, says Lina Sundén, founder of Future Shorts Sweden.

Today Future Shorts is present in 60 cities in 18 countries from Vietnam, Bangladesh and South Africa to Norway, Finland and Denmark.

-This, in the long run, is of course an opportunity for Swedish short film to gain a larger international circulation. For the individual filmmaker it's an amzing opportunity to have a chance to reach an audience of 10 000 people through one single submission, Lina Sundén continues.

In the fall Göteborg International Film Festival launched Dragon Award New Talent, an online competition for short film where the prize is one of the prestigeous plexi glass dragons and a screening at the festival's closing ceremony. A collaboration with Future Shorts seemed natural. Besides helping to spread the word about the competition through their international network, Future Shorts Gothenburg have decided to give all films submitted to Dragon Award New Talent a chance to be shown on a big screen. The films will be shown on a videomat that is being installed especially for the Future Shorts January event.

Future Shorts' January programme Hide + Seek will be shown at House of Win-Win in Gothenburg on January 28th.


Read more about Future Shorts here