The Covid-19 pandemic has decimated screen production internationally. Now filmmaking is resuming in New Zealand with tight restrictions to keep us safe. What does this mean for your upcoming short film shoot? We explain.
Programme Announced for 2019
Welcome message from the Festival Director
Japanese Focus
2019 Aotearoa Short Film Lab Participants Announced
Submissions for 2019 now open
Nominees announced for 2018 awards
Participants announced for Aotearoa Short Film Lab 2018
Submissions for 2018 now open
2017 Award Winners Announced
2017 Award Nominees announced
Auckland Opening Night 2017: Tickets now on sale
2017 deadline extended
Kiwis in Korea
Calling interns
Participants announced for Aotearoa Short Film Lab 2017
Submissions for 2017 now open
People’s Choice Award winner announced
Show Me Shorts on tour
General News
Articles
Many top animators have been busy during lock-down. Creating short films that allow us to reflect on and poke gentle fun at our anxiety, escalating desire to escape, and strange urge to hoard toilet paper. Enjoy them here.
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.
Many of you are wondering whether Show Me Shorts will take place this year, and if your short film qualifies for our awards if it is screening as part of an online festival. The answers are yes, and yes.
Our upcoming Short Film Night events are now mini online festivals. Buy a ticket and you will be sent out a special link and password to enjoy the films together-apart. Here are the details about the first two – Iranian and German short films.
Show Me Shorts presents a night of German short films – 28 April in Auckland & 29 April in Wellington. Join us to celebrate the cinema of Germany with this vibrant collection full comedy, cats, Christmas, amusement parks and football!
Join the team helping to select the best short films in the world. We’re now recruiting volunteers to watch short films for the 2020 festival.
We are now calling for entries for our fifteenth edition, set to take place at more than 25 cinemas nationwide during 3-25 October 2020.
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.
Seven screenwriters or writing duos have been selected to participate in the 2020 Show Me Shorts Screenwriting Lab. We’re excited to announce their names!
