This is a festival celebrating Indie Short Films with a particular emphasis on those made in Beijing, China. It is a bilingual festival supporting both English and Chinese films.
The festival is held biannually in December and June inside of a 500 year old hutong, a traditional style Beijing hutong. Approximately 20 short films will be screened at the festival. In addition to the hutong, this years festival will include a screening at the UCCA in the 798 Art District.
Our past three festivals all had sell out crowds. The first had 500 people in a large rooftop venue, the second had 90 in a trendy Beijing hipster neighborhood, and the third had 50 in a cozy independent theater.
Our festival prefers entries with a connection to Beijing as a large percentage of our audience are Beijing based filmmakers.
Preference in the selection goes to indie short films made in Beijing, those with relation to Beijing, then Shanghai, then the rest of Mainland China, then the rest of the world.
Best Short Film
Best Director
Best Edit
Best Sound
Best Story
Best Coloring
Best Actor
Best Actress
The Best Short Film prize's submitter will receive a prize from Ftrack.