Luzifer (Austria) by Peter Brunner grabs the Best Feature Film Award while Jose Luis Aparicio's Cuban fever-dream Tundra becomes the third Spanish-language short film in five years to win Best Short Film. Laura Lehmus is awarded Best Director for her incredibly hilarious and sweet feature directorial debut, Sweet Disaster, and Toronto's Erica Orofino takes home Best...
61 Films Coming to Ontario, Canada at the Pendance Film Festival March 10-13th, Virtually Feature Films Lineups The features programme at Pendance 2022 features a diverse range of genres and languages; films from the United States, Japan, China, Germany, Austria, Italy and the Netherlands make up the...
We were having a conversation today with a pass holder who said they got a headache trying to pick which films they wanted to watch. "Nothing's bad, everything's interesting, and there's no Brad Pitt so I have no idea how to pick". The bigger we get,...
The international shorts selections at Pendance are one of the highlights each year. As a festival that's always seeking and open to programming films from anywhere and everywhere—there are always a handful of short films that come to Pendance as their first or only North...
Five female filmmakers and films from 6 different countries headline a strong 10-feature-lineup for the 2021 Pendance Film Festival. Apart from being held virtually for the first time, the fourth year at Pendance marks a lot of firsts—a World Premiere feature, two documentary features, a...
Short films have always been a huge part of our programming at Pendance, and as the festival goes virtual in 2021 for the first time, we were bound to break a few records. Fun Fact: there are more Canadians selected to Pendance 2021 than there...
The Pendance Film Festival is going virtual on March 26-28, 2021 via Eventive. Passes go on sale March 9th. With 2020 being a generally slow year for the film industry, we're absolutely humbled to announce that our shorts programme may be our best one yet....
In this article, I'm going to lay out the entire short film playbook—festival strategies, maximizing your festival experience, cost-cutting on submissions, marketing ideas, and how to execute your distribution and release. Look—short films are basically a rite of passage. Anyone who has ever picked up a...
