With only three days left of this year’s LJMU MA Short Film Festival, tomorrow evening (Thursday 21st) is you final chance to join us for one of our free, in-person screenings. As with our previous events, we’ll be joined by some of this year’s experimental filmmakers who will be discussing the meaning behind their filmsContinue reading “Free Experimental Screening/Vote for Audience Award”
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Get Your Free Fiction Screening Tickets!
With the 2024 edition of the LJMU MA Short Film Festival at the half way mark, why not join us for our in-person Fiction screening? We’ll be screening the year’s Fiction programme in full, giving audiences the chance to watch 6 of the freshest and most captivating short films from the next generation of filmmakingContinue reading “Get Your Free Fiction Screening Tickets!”
Get Your Free Animation Screening Tickets
Hot on the heels of last night’s Documentary screening and Q&A, tonight is the turn of Animation. Grab your free tickets HERE and join us for 12 shorts that push the boundaries of animation. We’ll also be joined live by some of the directors from this year’s programme who will be discussing their films, influences,Continue reading “Get Your Free Animation Screening Tickets”
Join us for Documentary – tonight!
Get your free tickets HERE Tonight marks the first of our live screening and Q&A events, taking place at LJMUs Redmonds Building from 5:45 (doors open 5:30). We’re excited to screening this year’s full documentary programme, featuring fresh perspectives from across the globe, taking in countries such as Argentina, Iran, and Denmark. The films featuredContinue reading “Join us for Documentary – tonight!”
We are live! 2024 LJMU MA Short Film Festival
We’re proud to announce that the full programme of 36 films featured in this year’s LJM MA Short Film Festival is now live and completely free to watch over at our website. Here, you’ll be able to enjoy some of the best emergent filmmaking talent from across the world, featuring the best in short Fiction,Continue reading “We are live! 2024 LJMU MA Short Film Festival”
One Day Until the Launch of the 2024 LJMU MA Short Film Festival!
In a matter of hours we’ll be launching this year’s LJMU MA Short Film Festival and showcasing some of the best emergent filmmaking talent from across the world. This year’s entries cover a wide range of countries including Singapore, Brazil, Chile. Closer to home, we’re also featuring films from Estonia, Sweden, France, and Poland. HereContinue reading “One Day Until the Launch of the 2024 LJMU MA Short Film Festival!”
Still Time to Grab Your Free Screening Tickets!
With the festival fast approaching, we’re gearing up for the first of four live screenings which will take place on Monday 18th March at LJMUs Redmonds Building. We’ll be screening the documentary programme in full and what’s more, we’ll be following this with a live Q&A, where you’ll get the chance to ask questions toContinue reading “Still Time to Grab Your Free Screening Tickets!”
Only One Week to Go!
In just seven short days, the 4th edition of the LJMU MA Short Film Festival will be underway, meaning you’ll be able to watch all 36 of this year’s entries across Fiction, Animation, Documentary, & Experimental. This week, we’ve been introducing some of the filmmakers and films featured in this year’s programme over on ourContinue reading “Only One Week to Go!”
2024 Festival Jury
Meet your juries for the 2024 LJMU MA Short Film Festival Hot on the heels of the release of this year’s festival trailers, today we are able to introduce the juries for this year’s LJMU MA Short Film Festival. Fiction This year’s fiction jury is comprised of Kathrin Kohlstedde; Head of Programme at Filmfest Hamburg,Continue reading “2024 Festival Jury”
Festival Trailer Reveal & Live Screenings
After the release of our Experimental trailer yesterday, today marks the unveiling of our final overall festival trailer. This year’s edition of the LJMU MA Short Film Festival features 36 of the best in emergent student filmmaking, with entries from 22 countries including Singapore, Venezuela, and Estonia. You can see the full programme for thisContinue reading “Festival Trailer Reveal & Live Screenings”
2024 Fiction Trailer Reveal
As we draw ever close to the launch of this year’s LJMU MA Short Film Festival, today marks the release of our Fiction trailer, featuring 6 stunning films hand-picked from almost 1400 entries. This year’s selection of films features explores the consequences of childhood curiosity, poverty and loneliness in the elderly, and individuals being pushedContinue reading “2024 Fiction Trailer Reveal”
2024 Poster Reveal
As with previous years, we like to make a big deal of the official poster reveal – this year is no exception, so it is my great pleasure to reveal to you the official poster for the 2024 LJMU MA Short Film Festival! This year, we’ve been. lucky enough to retain the creative skills ofContinue reading “2024 Poster Reveal”
Submissions For Our 2024 Edition Are Now Closed
The last two months have seen a phenomenal reaction to our call for entries for the 2024 LJMU MA Short Film Festival, but unfortunately, the submission period must come to an end. We’ve received a staggering amount of films from across the globe, with students from over 100 countries eager to showcase their work duringContinue reading “Submissions For Our 2024 Edition Are Now Closed”
STILL TIME TO SUBMIT YOUR ENTRIES FOR THE 2024 LJMU MA SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
Still time to submit your entries for the 2024 LJMU MA Short Film Festival at https://filmfreeway.com/ljmumashortfilmfestival
Now Open for Submissions – The 2024 LJMU MA Short Film Festival!
We’re back! From today, submissions for the 2024 LJMU MA Short Film Festival are officially open. Each year, we showcase the best emergent student filmmaking talent from across the world in the categories of Fiction, Documentary, Animation, and Experimental. The competition last year was of an incredibly high standard and we’re sure that our 4thContinue reading “Now Open for Submissions – The 2024 LJMU MA Short Film Festival!”
We’re Back! Submissions Open September 25th
If you’ve seen our social media recently, you’ll undoubtedly have come across the preceding image – It gives me great pleasure to confirm that we’ll soon be taking submissions for the 2024 edition of the LJMU MA Short Film Festival. From September 25th, we’ll be accepting submissions from student filmmakers from across the globe, andContinue reading “We’re Back! Submissions Open September 25th”
Audience Award & Stats of the Festival
With the dust settled on this year’s edition of the LJMU MA Short Film Festival, we thought it would be good to give you a round-up of some statistics and figures related to the festival – but first, the final Paper Bird Award of 2023 goes to Out of Order, which was an incredibly popularContinue reading “Audience Award & Stats of the Festival”
2023 Winners & Final Day
The juries have spoken and this years winners of the Paper Bird Awards can now be revealed. The level of competition this year was extremely high, but the juries were in unanimous agreement that the following films were worthy of being crowned the best in their category. 2023 Paper Bird Award for Fiction Rue (DirectedContinue reading “2023 Winners & Final Day”
2023 Awards Ceremony 4PM (BST) Today!
It’s time for the big one! Live on Youtube at 4 PM (BST) today, we’ll be revealing which films will be taking home the Paper Bird awards for Fiction, Experimental, Animation, and Documentary. This is one you won’t want to miss – our jury members will be joining us to share their insights into theContinue reading “2023 Awards Ceremony 4PM (BST) Today!”
Animation Q&A Today 4PM (BST)
We’ve already heard some fascinating insights from our Documentary, Fiction, and Experimental Directors over the last few days and today promises to be no different. Join us over at our YouTube channel at 4 PM (BST) when the filmmakers from this year’s Animation strand will reveal more about their inspirations, creative processes, and how theyContinue reading “Animation Q&A Today 4PM (BST)”