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Short film ban
I saw that rules have been amended to ban all short films, regardless of quality. How are we defining short films though? The AMPAS standard is 40 minutes or less, including all credits. Can we just go with that?
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With no real opinion one way or the other, what is the reason for banning short films? Just out of curiosity....
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I think from the wording it's primarily banning student-created short films.
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There are too many student/amateur/self made & distributed short films to count, made every year. Not only in the U.S. but every country with a burgeoning film industry (or lots of kids who are film geeks ) IMDFB isn't here to chronicle the weapons used in someone's backyard project. Heck, even I have several films I shot myself and you KNOW those had real guns (hahahaha) , but they weren't publicly distributed so they don't count. |
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And that's a pretty big gap between short film and feature. I don't even know what it'd be called.
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I looked up the short film threshold for various festivals (which you would think is where most people watch them), but it was not very helpful. Sundance allows up to 50 minutes, while Cannes caps it at 15.
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Shorts are okay in festivals. In fact they are the only thing allowed in many festivals. But features is what we chronicle. |
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So if a film is on IMDB, it counts and we can make a page of it?
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But even the IMDb requirement is a little dodgy because there's a lot of foreign stuff not on IMDb.
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