Film Festival with Screenings
5 Years
Pocket Films
MANHATTAN SHORT is not a touring Festival; rather, it is an instantaneous celebration that occurs simultaneously across the globe, bringing great films to great venues and allowing the audiences to select their favorites. If the Film Festival experience truly is about getting great works in front of as many eyes as possible, MANHATTAN SHORT offers the ultimate platform -- one that sees its films screened in Sydney, Mumbai, Moscow, Vienna, Cape Town to cinemas in all fifty states of the United States and beyond. Key highlights of MANHATTAN SHORT: Top 10 Nominees are pre-qualified to submit for OSCARS. People Driven Festival: Audience Votes The Winners (Only film festival in the known universe where audience is jury) Bringing people together globally MANHATTAN SHORT finalists & winners have gone on to win at the Oscar, BAFTAs, Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Locarno, Sundance and many more ‘The Bear Story’ a winner at MANHATTAN SHORT 2015 went on to win the Oscar for Best Animated Short while ‘Shok’ was nominated in the live action short category VOTE FOR INDIA Initiative: As seen above, MANHATTAN SHORT is a gateway to global recognition for a short film, like no other platform, and as their India partner, our aim at Pocket Films is to see an Indian short film in the top ten global finalists and maybe win the MANHATTAN SHORT Best Short Film award. With this aim in mind we created the ‘Vote for India’ initiative where the participants not only participate in the MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL but are also get an opportunity to be rated at an India level and a change to win some amazing prizes. For more information log on - http://pocketfilms.in/#!contest/manhattan-short-vote-for-india-2017
The winner of the MANHATTAN SHORT Vote for India initiative will win a production grant of Rs. 1 Lakh from Pocket Films for their next short film The Top 3 films will be screened at the Indian venue(s) of MANHATTAN SHORT along with the global top 10 finalists The Top 3 Films will also get a Certificate and a trophy from Pocket Films If any participating film wins the MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, prizes if any shall be given by MANHATTAH SHORT directly For more information log on - http://pocketfilms.in/#!contest/manhattan-short-vote-for-india-2017
The film (the term ‘film’ also includes the supporting details and metadata, wherever applicable) shall not be more than 20 minutes in duration, excluding credits. Films exceeding this time limit may be rejected. We recommend keeping the credits at the end of the film. The films may be in their original language but MUST be subtitled in ENGLISH. Films in English language too should have subtitles in English. We recommend subtitles be submitted in .srt format as far as possible and submit to us along with your film. Check this link to learn how to make subtitles easily using Notepad - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ0o7l3HFrA or search for it on our channel on YouTube – www.youtube.com/pocketfilms. Films submitted previously to this festival will not be considered for this contest. The films may be shot in any format. However, the recommended ratios are: 16:9 / 16:9 Full Height Anamorphic – in DV / HDV. The recommended video files formats are VOB, MPG, MPEG4 or AVI. In making your Film, you must have (1) obtained appropriate releases for every person who appears recognizably in your Film; (2) obtain appropriate releases for those locations that appear recognizably in your film and require releases; (3) obtained appropriate releases from producers, right-holders and/or co-producers You will retain any such releases and provide them to the organisers upon request. The Film must not contain any copyrighted work(s) belonging to third parties unless (1) you have a license to use such works in the Film; or (2) the use your Film makes of such works is a fair one under the copyright laws. You will retain any licenses and provide them to organisers upon request. The Participant also grants the Organisers the right to use their name, image, voice, likeness, statements, background and biographical material in connection with the contest or festival. For more information log on - http://pocketfilms.in/#!contest/manhattan-short-vote-for-india-2017
