Let me ask you a quick question: Are you working on a short subject that could impress judges and attract contest dollars, or a film that would engage an airline or international television audience?
Now that we’ve come to the conclusion that there is, in fact, a growing number of venues out there for short films, a paradigm shift in the way we think about producing shorts is past due. Forget feature film festivals and their short subject addenda. Right now, the most import thing to focus on as you produce a short, is its’ intended market.
Fortunately, even if you can’t decide, there’s a company you can look into. Founded by Jon Nash in 2001, Tigris Films specializes in distributing short films to buyers ranging from Spain’s Morphe Arte and Italy’s Village SRL to Denver’s Frontier Airlines. They operate as sales agents for short filmmakers and as consultants for film bookers and programmers.
More importantly, though begun independently, Tigris is the parent company of both Big Film Shorts and Nano TV as well as the co-sponsor of Frontier’s monthly Cloud 9 shorts festival.
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