DC Shorts International Film Festival

The largest short film event on the East Coast. Named "Coolest Film Festival" by MovieMaker Magazine.  Festival: September 7-17, 2017

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FILMMAKER AWARDS BRUNCH PRESENTED BY OCTFME

Sunday, September 11th / 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Impact Hub / 419 7th Street, NW / Suite 300 Closest Metro: Gallery Place (Red Line) Tickets: Passholders Only

Join us for our festival’s awards brunch, where the Jury and Audience awards are announced. Get to know the best of the best from this year’s festival and network with filmmakers from around the world while enjoying complimentary cocktails and food. Winning filmmakers are presented with a glass trophy designed by the Washington Glass School, and showered with prize packages and cash!

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Volunteer | DC Shorts Film Festival

VOLUNTEER WITH US! DC Shorts Volunteers are the heart of the festival! They make the festival fun, welcome our filmmakers, assist attendees and have fun doing it! Each year, we rely on the support of volunteers to make the festival a great success! There are opportunities to volunteer during the festival and all year long. As a volunteer you receive free festival t-shirt, earn free movie tickets or festival passes and complimentary tickets to screenings throughout the year. Get involved in the greatest film lover's party in town! HOW CAN I HELP? We need volunteers in the following positions! BEFORE THE FESTIVAL Film Reviewers and Script Readers Needed! Do you like film? Can you articulate your opinion in a few carefully crafted sentences? Do you respect the opinions of others? Do you have the passion to watch and evaluate 30 to 40 movies, or read 10 to 20 scripts? If so, then you will make an incredible reviewer. This year, the DC Shorts Film Festival and Screenplay Competitions

DC Shorts Needs Your Help...For more information on how you can volunteer...visit our website at http://festival.dcshorts.com/volunteer! 

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VENUE HIGHLIGHT 

Join us at the Congress Heights Arts and Culture Center where we will have a fun filled afternoon of actors seminars.  Congress Heights Arts and Culture Center (CHACC), was established to explore arts and culture of people of the African Diaspora (descendants of people from Africa), specifically, communities of African Americans, residing East of the Anacostia River. For more information about what’s is happening at CHACC visit the on the web at http://chacc.org.

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Partners | DC Shorts Film Festival

Sponsors are an important part of the festival and are key to our continued success and growth. Without them we would not be able to bring you 11 days of award winning films, top notch workshops, riveting panels, and more! For information on how you can be an important part of our festival, email Paul Marengo, our Managing Director at [email protected].

Did you know that DC Shorts has over 100 partners and sponsor who all help make the festival happen!  Check them out on our website!

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VENUE HIGHLIGHT

Landmark Theatre is our home and our main screening venue.  There is way too much to tell you about what is going...You’ll have to believe us! You can find out more information about Landmark (E Street Cinema) including address, bar menu...did I say they had a bar! https://www.landmarktheatres.com/washington-d-c/e-street-cinema.

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CREW SPEED NETWORKING

Saturday, September 16th / 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Capitol Hill Arts Workshop / 545 7th Street, SE Closest Metro: Eastern Market (Blue, Orange, or Silver Lines) Tickets: Free, but a ticket is required

Looking for work? Seeking crew? Want to expand your business? Or, are you simply interested in meeting like-minded people in the production industry? If the answer is “yes” to any of these questions, then the DC Film Alliance’s Production Speed Networking is the perfect place for you! Production Speed Networking is a networking meeting designed to help you expand your production network in a short, one hour session. Using “speed networking”, attendees will rotate tables every 10 minutes in order to get the opportunity to speak with as many fellow attendees as possible, followed by open networking at the end of the event.

Sponsored By: Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, OCTFME

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Special Screenings | DC Shorts Film Festival

African American Showcase Animation Domination Around the World Best of Sunderland Family Showcase It's a Family Affair LGBT Shorts Life Cycles Lunchtime Films O Canada Outdoor Showcase The Real Reel Ripped from the Headlines ROTFLMAO Tackling the Issues: Reel Abilities

Ticketing for all Special Screenings....

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HOW TO BREAK INTO FILM - INSTRUCTOR HIGHLIGHT - ZHIBO LAI

Zhibo Lai is a filmmaker, visual effects artist, and licensed drone operator.  After working 10 years in the IT field, he fled to Paris for a crash course in filmmaking. Retuning to the States, he polished his skills crewing on numerous shorts, features, and documentary projects.  He soon found his love specializing in cinematography and visual effects, and founded Dimension FX, LLC, a boutique visual effects and post production house with the mission to elevate productions values for independent films.  His films have played in many film festivals across the country and have won several awards. He is currently in post-production on several short films and is developing a one-woman web series set in the outskirts of the solar system.

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HOW TO BREAK INTO FILM - INSTRUCTOR HIGHLIGHT - JOE DZIKIEWICZ

Four years ago, Joe Dzikiewicz was invited by some friends to help make a movie for the 48 Hour Film Project.  Although he knew nothing about filmmaking – he spent the night before reading his camera manual to figure out how to turn on video mode – he said yes.  Blown away by the fact that it was possible to make a short film with a camera he already owned, he became obsessed.  He read books, performed experiments, and took classes – including the Mentors Program run by DC Shorts.  And he made movies – “Silent Sentinel,” based on his screenplay that was a finalist in last year’s DC Shorts Screenwriting Competition, is his fourteenth film. And now he even knows how to turn on video mode.

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SCREENPLAY COMPETITION

Friday, September 15th | 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm

The DC Shorts Screenplay Competition is a very different kind of screenwriting competition. A panel of judges consisting of filmmakers, screenwriters and critics reviewed over 70 screenplays — and selected the top 6 to be performed for you! After a table reading, the audience will vote for their favorite, and one lucky writer will walk away with $2,000 to shoot their project! The completed film will screen at DC Shorts 2018.

Presenting Sponsor: Office of Cable Television, Film, Music, and Entertainment

Prize Sponsors: Write Brothers, Movie Magic Screenwriter

Reception Sponsors: Tito’s Vodka, Lagunitas Beer, Barefoot Wine, and Green Hat Gin

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Workshops | DC Shorts Film Festival

DC Shorts is proud to present seminars for filmmakers of all levels. Space is limited and seating priority will be given to all access passholders and filmmakers. Tickets are required. Tickets are $5 unless otherwise noted and come with a $5 off coupon that can be applied to any purchase and can only be used at the box office. Need a ride there? Ride with VIA. Use code DCSHORTS for 2 free rides! New riders only, solo rides. Expires 10/31. If you are driving and need a space to park? Use SPOTHERO! Sponsored by: Backstage, Barbizon, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Cinematcher, Congress Heights Arts and Culture Center, DCTV, Film Convert, Final Cut, Final Draft, Government Video Expo, iPitch, Kimberly Skyrme Casting, Kimberly Skyrme Productions, KvM Rental, Landmark Theater, The Lookout, LumaForge, MAGIX, MovieMaker Magazine, The Office of Cable Television, Film, Music & Entertainment, Quick Film Budget, Red Giant, SAG-AFTRA, Simple DCP, Student Filmmaker Magazine, Studio Binder, The

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PITCHING, PITCHING, AND MORE PITCHING! - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH / E STREET CINEMA / 555 11TH STREET, NW / THEATER #6

3:30-5:30 PM – PITCHFEST (BY INVITATION ONLY & PASSHOLDERS) Sponsors & Partners: Cine, iPitch.tv

Panelists: Betsy Walters (Moderator, Executive Director, Cine), Monica Lee Bellais, Producer/Writer and Creator of Script DC (and most recently, Exec Producer of Wakefield), Josh Levin (President & CEO of Gallant Films), Sara Keller (Director of Programming & Scheduling at NatGeo WILD)

Join us for our 1st Annual Pitchfest. Filmmakers will pitch their ideas for new film and TV projects to our panel of expert judges who will critique and provide essential feedback.

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Schedule of Events | DC Shorts Film Festival

Click on any event name (ie: "SHOWCASE 2", "BEST OF A") to read about the films in that program and purchase tickets. All screenings are 90-minutes in length, and include 7-9 films.

Check out that is happening at DC Shorts!

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PARTIES

DC Shorts loves to celebrate our filmmakers — and our audience! All parties include light refreshments and a special selection of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. Attendees must be over 21 years of age and present photo ID at the door. Save money by purchasing your tickets online.   Need a ride there?  Ride with Via. Use code DCSHORTS for 2 free rides! New riders only, solo rides. Expires 10/31.  If you are driving and need a place to park?  Use SpotHero!

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FILMMAKER WELCOME RECEPTION PRESENTED BY PEPCO

Thursday, September 7th / 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm PEPCO Edison Place Gallery / 702 8th Street, NW Closest Metro: Gallery Place (Red Line) Tickets: Passholders Only

DC Shorts welcomes our filmmakers and pass holders to our annual DC Shorts Film Festival. Each year we hold an exclusive party just for our passionate go getters and film lovers, featuring cocktails, food, music, a whole lot of fun, and even some VR from Navtec!

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VENUE HIGHLIGHT 

Join us at Miracle Theater, the site for our closing weekend.  At Miracle, you can catch our Screenplay Competition, Seminar, as well as our Best of Showcases. For more information about Miracle visit their website at http://themiracletheatre.com.

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Our History | DC Shorts

DC SHORTS CHAMPIONS SHORT FILMMAKING! Through a series of regularly scheduled educational programs, screening opportunities, sharing resources via online tools, partnering with film, arts and business organizations, and our annual DC Shorts Film Festival, DC Shorts provides opportunities for filmmakers of every skill level to explore and learn their craft — while entertaining and expanding the horizons of audience members. Founded in 2003, the DC Shorts Film Festival was created by DC-based filmmaker, Jon Gann, in response to the dozens of festivals where the focus wasn’t on the filmmakers and their craft. So...he decided to start his own event, focusing on the form he loves — shorts. THE DC FILM ALLIANCE IS BORN…. In 2006, the DC Film Alliance, a nonprofit arts organization, was created to present the DC Shorts Film Festival, and offer other programs and resources for Washington, D.C.-based filmmakers. The Alliance helped to bridge the gap between other area film organizations, foster

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