Shorts Costa Rica International Film Festival

Mercedes de Montes de Oca, Costa Rica

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Deadline
14 May 2023


Published: 20 Mar 2023
 Has submission fees
Short films


The Shorts Costa Rica International Film Festival is an initiative dedicated to promote and celebrate the richness of the short film, its diversity in themes, styles and voices, and the great national and international talent responsible for its creation. This festival seeks to strengthen cinematographic diversity through the exhibition, training and dissemination of Costa Rican talent, and participation of international viewings in the country, giving the public the best of short filmmaking.

Our proposal is to provide small and large producers of short films the possibility of obtaining an impact within the cinematographic field, activating presence in theaters and alternative spaces in the seven provinces of the country as well as in other cities around the world. We recognize the importance of making short films visible as a means of cultural expression and we hope that you will be part of this great beginning and that we will continue to develop audiovisual diversity at a national and international level through these efforts.

From July 17th to 27th, the second edition of the film festival will be held in San Jose, with the support of various sectors of the artistic community to raise the efforts present in our present time.

Shorts Costa Rica will be held in four stages: CR Shorts Lab, Shorts Costa Rica Festival, Shorts Communities and SHORTS+, seeking to strengthen cinematographic expressions through the exhibition, training and dissemination of Costa Rican talent, and participation of international viewings in the country, giving the public the best of short films.

The festival showcases a wide variety of short films from around the world to showcase national and international creativity. Its main objective is to share this artistic diversity with the local audience, highlighting how it influences our ever-changing identity. It also seeks to support all film professionals, offering an inclusive space to promote and develop different regions on a cinematographic level.

SHORT FILM COMPETITIONS

The Shorts Costa Rica International Film Festival offers the opportunity to participate in the different eligible competitions, which, through these, seeks to encourage and promote efforts to export, consume and disseminate the talent and creativity of filmmakers from around the world and expose the cultural, artistic and/or social identities of each region.

Eligible categories: Fiction, Animation, Documentary, Videoclip and Experimental


NATIONAL COMPETENCE

The National Competition encourages the efforts of all audiovisual sectors, regardless of their formation and artistic training. The festival is committed to bringing this diversity of projects to the national public, expanding these records through the recognition of those artistic foundations that lead to the evolution of our national identity.

Those short films where the origin of the director or the production are from Costa Rica are eligible for the National Competition.

**There is no registration fee for this competition.

CENTRAL AMERICAN COMPETITION

The Central American Short Film Competition aims to promote the efforts of all audiovisual sectors, regardless of their background and artistic training in this region.

Eligible for the Central American Competition are those short films where the origin of the director or the production is from a Central American country.

The festival is committed to bringing this diversity of projects to the public, recognizing those artistic foundations that lead to the evolution of our Central American identity.
**There is no registration fee for this competition.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Short films from all parts of the world (except Costa Rica) are eligible to participate.

Those short films where the origin of the director or the production are not from Costa Rica or any other Central American country are eligible for the International Competition.

**Registering a short film in the International Competition costs between $15 and $25 (depending on the stage at which the short film is submitted).


International Festival

Short film festival


 Fiction  Documentary  Animation  Experimental  Music Video


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Photo of Festival Internacional de Cine Shorts Costa Rica
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