The 14th Annual Canadian Film Centre’s Worldwide Short Film Festival is still five months away but the deadline to enter is now just a matter of days.
First the Worldwide Short Film Festival. The deadline to enter one of the most important festivals in Canada is February 1, 2008. In addition to being one of only three Canadian festivals accredited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in 2008 the WSFF will become one of the first North American festivals to operate a fully digitized Marketplace Library.
The festival will run from June 5th to 10th and winners of the Best Live-Action Short and Best Animated Short are eligible for the Academy Awards. Canadian award winners are eligible for the Genie Awards and the festival also qualifies winners for the prestigious BAFTA Awards.
2008 Edmonton Film Festival - The festival itself will run from September 26th to October 4th.
Earlybird deadline - March 15 and the Festival is looking for films that fall into three broad categories and one special catch-all category:
Feature Films: “dramatic stories over 75-minutes, from Canada and around the world.” These films are programmed into six streams: Family films, American Indies, Digital Revolution, Edge of Night, Oh, Canada! and World Cinema.
Light Documentary: documentaries that engage, enlighten, and cause people to smile. Light Documentary films must be 70-minutes or longer.
Short Films: must be 20-minutes or less.

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