Festival Data:

• Established: 2004
• Genre: General

• Competitive
• Online Festival
• Has Panels
• Has Seminars

Festival Website:

Festival Description:

Action/Cut Short Film Competition, an industry-driven film competition in which all judging panels are working filmmakers, screenwriters, agents, executives, etc., The Action/Cut Short Film Competitionis an extension of the Action/Cut Seminars.

The Action/Cut Short Film Competition and Seminars feature industry professionals who share their work process and their scenes’ progression step-by-step and shot-by-shot. They teach 2-day seminars on filmmaking and production. Participants are invited to read the scenes, discuss how to shoot them within a tight schedule, work out a shooting plan, and then executing it by seeing the actual dailies of those scenes and then seeing the finished work.

Each year there are roughly 60 Action/Cut Seminars conducted in 15 major film cities and internationally from the US to Malaysia.

The Action/Cut Short Film Competition is a competitive showcase for filmmaker participants of the seminars to screen their work to industry professionals and compete for prizes, which include cash awards from Action/Cut, numerous career access meetings prizes (comprising of actual meetings/conferences with Hollywood players) and Sponsor Prizes from industry companies designed to empower these filmmakers to further develop their careers. The Action/Cut Short Film Competition offers over 125 prizes valued at $50,000!

Although the screenings are not open to the public the Action/Cut website streams the competing films on the Internet.