Entries must be received on or before the deadline dates by 11:59PM Pacific Time, and submission fee payment must be made in full at time of the submission. Any script submission longer than 30 pages will incur a 1 per page overage fee for each page over 30. Good luck to you Virtual ChocolateHug and hopefully we get another good short out of you soon. While short scripts may be any length, we recommend scripts be between 2 - 30 pages. Do not try and be anything else but yourself, or you could pay for it in the long run. Build a world that is unique to your style and find out how to tell that story in the best way possible. You should really be trying to find your voice and just tell a snippet of a feature idea you have. From my experience, people who follow that format do win, but they get pigeon-holed as a "short film director" a lot of times.
He tends to keep it under or at 8-10 minutes, which is the magical number to hold people's attention in a short. It's a slice of life, one moment, that plays out before you and then it ends. That being said, if you just want to win a film festival award, Jim Cummings is the man that broke the formula. It's to show that you can nail your own theme, characters, and make a believable world with a voice that's completely unique to your own. Short films are really to showcase what kind of stories you want to tell.
Stop looking at other people's stuff that's done well. As someone that has had a small amount of success in the short film festival circuit and has finally gotten the opportunity to move beyond that into features, and as someone who's met some talented people along the way that are in the same position as me or doing even better.
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