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✍🏽 First Features deadline extended ✍🏽

✍🏽 First Features deadline extended ✍🏽

We've extended the First Features 2023/24 deadline to Monday 8th January 2024, with a few guideline updates. 📃

We would like to encourage filmmakers to explore a wide range of genres and styles. We’re receiving a high level of coming of age and period dramas; and we’d like to invite a more diverse range of applications, for example sci-fi/fantasy, thriller, comedy, action, romantic drama, animation and more. 🛸🗡️🌹

For clarity - if you have a great coming of age or period drama; don’t feel you can’t submit it, you can! Though we’d like to be transparent that we’re receiving mostly this genre.

The First Features scheme is for writing, writing/directing and producing talent from all across Scotland who have bold and captivating fiction projects that possess a strong theatrical ambition and have the potential to resonate with audiences worldwide.

🗨️ An online Q&A session led by Short Circuit Talent Executives will be announced very soon, for anyone who has any questions and wants to know more about #FirstFeatures.

If you have an enquiry before then, email hello@shortcircuit.scot and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can. 📨

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Close-up film photo of a person holding a notebook and writing. Text reads: First Features, Deadline extended: Monday 8th January 2024.

💸 LET’S TALK ABOUT FUNDING 💸 On the 22nd

💸 LET’S TALK ABOUT FUNDING 💸

On the 22nd of September, we’re partnering with Edinburgh’s @shortscapefest for an evening of screenings at @leitharches supported by our Sharp Shorts initiative 🎞️ Followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers 🎤

🎥 Laura McBride - Producer of GROOM
🎥 Leyla Coll-O’Reilly - Writer/Director of GROOM
🎥 Misha McCullagh - Producer of CANDY
🎥 Sean Lìonadh - Writer/Director of TOO ROUGH

🗣️We’ll be chatting... first steps for creating funded short films, personal experiences of financing films, working with Short Circuit, and all things in between.

The screenings and panel will run from 7:30pm until 9pm 🕰️ But the night doesn't end there. Afterwards, everyone is welcome to stay for networking with complimentary drinks.

Leith Arches is a wheelchair-accessible venue and the event will be BSL interpreted. For any further accessibility requirements or queries, please email shortscapefilmfestival@gmail.com

If you’d like to join us, tickets are on sale now! 🎟️ Visit our link in bio 🎟️

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Image 1: The background of the image is a blurred grayscale portrait. 'LET'S TALK ABOUT FUNDING' in large lime green font, and at the bottom of the image, 'SHORT CIRCUIT X SHORTSCAPE' in the same lime green font but smaller font size.

Image 2: A still from the short film ‘GROOM’ by Leyla Coll O’Reilly and Laura McBride. The image shows a young white woman in a hoody looking to the right of the image. Beside her are shelves of hair products and towels.

Image 3: A still from the short film ‘CANDY’ written/directed by Sarah Grant and produced by Misha McCullagh. The image shows two young white women embracing each other, dressed in outdoor clothing. The woman facing the camera looks upset, with smudged eye makeup.

Image 4: A still from the short film, 'TOO ROUGH' by Sean Lìonadh. The image shows two young men, one with his arm around the other. They're both looking into the distance beyond the camera.

We are thrilled to share the incredible success of

We are thrilled to share the incredible success of #SharpShorts funded project TOO ROUGH by filmmaker Sean Lìonadh as the film’s festival run comes to a close this November 30th at Athens Short Film Festival. 📽️

TOO ROUGH has been making waves on the festival circuit, earning critical acclaim and captivating audiences worldwide. Sean’s storytelling prowess and cinematic vision have truly shone through in this remarkable short film.

🏆 Awards and Accolades: TOO ROUGH has notched up multiple awards, including Best Short Film at the @BAFTAScotland Awards 2022 and Best British Short Film at @bifa_film 2022.

🌍 International Recognition: The film has also been selected for prestigious international film festivals - including @interfilm_berlin, @uppsalakortfilmfestival, @outonfilm, @HollyShorts, @flickers.riiff, @durbaninternationalfilmfest and @sxsw just to name a few - where it continues to garner attention.

👏 We want to extend our heartfelt congratulations to @lion.adh, @covelli.alfredo, @jrossmckenzie, @aoc.me85, @ruaridhmollica, @joshuavgriffin and the entire cast and crew of TOO ROUGH for their outstanding achievements. Your dedication and talent have paid off, and we couldn’t be prouder!

This journey is just beginning, and we can’t wait to see what’s next from this exceptional filmmaker. 🎬💫

We are excited to unveil the 12 projects that have

We are excited to unveil the 12 projects that have been shortlisted for development through our esteemed short film scheme, #SharpShorts, this year. 🎥

In April 2023, we extended an invitation to writers, writer/directors, and filmmaking teams comprising writers, directors, and producers to submit one-page outlines of their innovative short film concepts for the fourth iteration of Sharp Shorts.

The response was overwhelming, with over 315 applications of an exceptionally high standard. The competition was fierce, highlighting a captivating range of diverse genres – from heartwarming romantic comedies to intense psychological dramas and thought-provoking speculative fiction. The pool of talent and originality displayed in the submitted projects was nothing short of inspiring.

Following a meticulous assessment process that engaged a panel of readers and external assessors, we are thrilled to announce the 12 visionary teams that will collaborate with our dedicated Talent Executives to refine and develop their short films.

Congratulations to these talented filmmakers! 🎉

🔗 Find out more about the projects on our website via the link in our bio.

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