Big Film Shorts
The oldest of the three partners, Big Film Shorts has been in the shorts distribution business since 1996. They buy shorts of all genres, lengths, and national origins from the experimental to the mainstream, including dramas and genre pieces, but especially comedies, gay-themed and animated shorts shot on film or video. That means that there’s plenty of competition.
But, they also license shorts to domestic and foreign broadcasters, DVD packagers, web-casters and theatrical exhibitors worldwide—so there’s quite a demand for quality product.
Operating under a belief system, best articulated by founder and Tigris Film president David Russell, that short films are "great gems of truth and enjoyment," BFS does cruise well-known festivals such as Sundance, Telluride and Cannes looking for films but they also accept submissions.
Nano TV
On the venue side, Tigris branched out in 2003 with Nano TV, the first short film channel in the United States. Designed to provide a new and exciting entertainment alternative to tech-savvy consumers, Nano exhibits online through iN DEMAND Cable and via Sprint’s Mobi TV, offering content drawn from the combined Tigris Films/Big Film Shorts library.
The Cloud 9 Festival
Even though I’ve purposefully tried to steer clear of profiles centered around the festival circuit, like the Cellflix Festival, the Cloud 9 Short Film Festival is an exception worth mentioning. Co-sponsored by Tigris and Frontier Airlines, the “Festival” (it’s really more of a contest) boasts viewer judges, audience-based exposure and a $5,000 grand prize. It doesn’t get much better than that.
To Be Continued . . .
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