Usually, how long is a SHORT FILM?!
Question: This is a good question and there are a lot of opinions out there about what length defines a short film. Traditionally, a short film is less than 30 minutes. General consensus seems to be that films should be 17 minutes or shorter if you want to get them into film festivals. Apparently they are much harder to program into schedules if they are longer.
There are also such things as "long shorts," which are between 30 and 60 minutes.
The LA Short Film Festival breaks it down in their entries page...scroll down to the "Fees" section to see: http://www.lashortsfest.com/call_for_ent...
Answers: This is a good question and there are a lot of opinions out there about what length defines a short film. Traditionally, a short film is less than 30 minutes. General consensus seems to be that films should be 17 minutes or shorter if you want to get them into film festivals. Apparently they are much harder to program into schedules if they are longer.
There are also such things as "long shorts," which are between 30 and 60 minutes.
The LA Short Film Festival breaks it down in their entries page...scroll down to the "Fees" section to see: http://www.lashortsfest.com/call_for_ent...
Since the 1980s, the term "short subject" has come to be used interchangeably with "short film", an international, academic term used to mean a contemporary non-commercial motion picture that is substantially shorter than the average commercial feature film. There is no clear definition of the maximum length of a short film; the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences classify it as 40 minutes, while the Internet Movie Database refer to any film lasting less than 45 minutes as a short subject. The short-film form is to the full length film what the short story is to a full-fledged novel.
According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a short film is 40 minutes or less. I got that watching the oscars.