Join us for a very special night out, celebrating short films and the people who make them.Click through to find out more.
Be there to watch as the winners of the Show Me Shorts Awards are announced, prizes presented and the winning films played.Click through to find out more.
Celebrate local winners and watch all the award-winning films at the opening of the Wellington season. This event brings together short film makers and short film enthusiasts to toast our community’s best and brightest. Click through to find out more.
Interested in learning more about short film making? Join us for the Short Film Talks during the festival. These two-hour sessions bring top short film makers together to each screen one of their works and discuss the joys and challenges of making that short film. Click through to find out more.
A special online panel event with programmers and distributors from some of the best short film festivals from around the world Click through to find out more.
Join us to celebrate the cinema of Britain with this vibrant collection of short films full of empathetic farmers, entrepreneurial young people, friendly nurses, zombies and gay men in the swinging sixties. Get tickets now.
Show Me Shorts has teamed up with accounting specialists The Hive to offer a workshop demystifying tax and book-keeping in the film industry – in a fun and interactive format, using language that you can understand without the jargon.
Show Me Shorts presents a night of German short films on 27 March at The Third Eye in Wellington. Join us to celebrate the cinema of Germany with a fun collection full of variety – comedy, fantasy, documentary, pianists, escaped bears and three brothers in a bathtub.
We are delighted to be working alongside Sesame Workshop’s Films Department to give New Zealand filmmakers the opportunity to pitch a short film idea for Season 50 of Sesame Street!
Show Me Shorts presents a night of German short films on 14 August at The Kingslander in Auckland. Join us to celebrate the cinema of Germany with a fun collection full of variety – comedy, fantasy, documentary, pianists, escaped bears and three brothers in a bathtub.
Show Me Shorts presents a night of Polish short films on 17 July at The Kingslander in Auckland. Join us to celebrate the cinema of Poland with a lively collection full of variety – animation, drama, documentary, love, murder, acrobats and gossip.
Show Me Shorts is more than a festival, we advocate for the short film art form and the short film community. We are excited to present a selection of top short films from New Zealand at Taiwan’s Kaohsiung Film Festival 2016, which starts next week.
The winners of the 11th annual Show Me Shorts Film Festival have just been released in style at the captivating Opening Night & Awards Ceremony in Auckland. With over 1,500 entries this year from over 28 countries, the calibre of entries has brought out the best short films
We’re pleased to announce and congratulate the awards finalists for 2016! Winners will be announced, and prizes will be presented for nine award categories, including the Oscar®-accredited Lightbox Best Film Award and Best International Film Award. The winners will have their films screened at the Opening Night & Awards Ceremony at Auckland’s Civic Theatre on 1 October.
Tickets for our Opening Night and Awards Ceremony at the Auckland Civic Theatre are on sale NOW!
Join us for a very special night out, celebrating short films and the people who make them. Be there to watch as the winners of the Show Me Shorts Awards are announced, prizes presented and the winning films are played.
