Short Film Breaks is the only film festival taking place within public, non-profit and for-profit organizations.
Created by filmmakers and human resources people, Short Film Breaks had its mission statement, from the start, to create a bridge between hard to distribute films (especially independent short films) and hard to reach audiences (employees and beneficiaries from our partner companies and NGOs and people living in remote villages around the world).
During our first nine years we’ve managed to screen over 600 films to audiences totaling around 50000 people, from 7 countries.
We started in 2013, with screenings over a three months period for the 1000+ Ipsos employees in Bucharest and Brasov and our first edition also had special events and Q&A with guests from the Romanian filmmaking industry like Tudor Giurgiu, Adrian Sitaru or Tom Wilson, among others.
In 2016, for our 4th edition, we moved to the next level and added a competitive component to the festival. From the 1985 films submitted, we selected 7 for the Best Romanian Short Film category and 26 films for the Best International Short Film category. We've also organized our first public event, a White Night at J'ai Bistrot Bucharest, which continued in 2017, 2018 and 2020.
We organized the 1st edition of our amazing Kathmandu Short Film Breaks event in 2017 and along with our screenings from Ipsos, we started our partnerships with Zitec (Bucharest and Brasov), Estuar Foundation (Bucharest) and UBIS Club (Bucharest and Iasi). What's more, we added an online festival, i-Say Short Film Breaks, to our live screenings! The first edition was won by THE STORY OF 90 COINS, while the 2018 edition was won by TIME 2 SPLIT.
DXC Technology, Casa Pariurilor and eFortuna joined us in 2018, we've increased our prizes FIVE TIMES, to $1500, while the number of received submissions for the 6th edition reached the stunning 3851!
For 2019 we're increasing the prizes once again, reaching a RECORD total prizes of $3000. That's ten times more than the prizes we started with just two years ago, in 2016!
In 2019, after a few years of testing, screening films in 19 communities from 7 countries (Nepal, Indonesia, Kenya, Tanzania, Romania, Senegal and Guatemala) in 2019 we launched our Patreon page with the aim to create recurrent cinema experiences in 50 communities from 17 countries.
We’ve also organized an event for the Romanian Mental Health community, in front of a full house, in partnership with The Estuar Foundation and Mental Health Europe, at ARCUB Bucharest.
And the cherry on top, for the first time in history, we organized a film screening at 5364 meters, in the Everest Base Camp, in October! Most probably, the highest films were ever screened!
Created by filmmakers and human resources people, Short Film Breaks had its mission statement, from the start, to create a bridge between hard to distribute films (especially independent short films) and hard to reach audiences (employees and beneficiaries from our partner companies and NGOs and people living in remote villages around the world).
During our first nine years we’ve managed to screen over 600 films to audiences totaling around 50000 people, from 7 countries.
We started in 2013, with screenings over a three months period for the 1000+ Ipsos employees in Bucharest and Brasov and our first edition also had special events and Q&A with guests from the Romanian filmmaking industry like Tudor Giurgiu, Adrian Sitaru or Tom Wilson, among others.
In 2016, for our 4th edition, we moved to the next level and added a competitive component to the festival. From the 1985 films submitted, we selected 7 for the Best Romanian Short Film category and 26 films for the Best International Short Film category. We've also organized our first public event, a White Night at J'ai Bistrot Bucharest, which continued in 2017, 2018 and 2020.
We organized the 1st edition of our amazing Kathmandu Short Film Breaks event in 2017 and along with our screenings from Ipsos, we started our partnerships with Zitec (Bucharest and Brasov), Estuar Foundation (Bucharest) and UBIS Club (Bucharest and Iasi). What's more, we added an online festival, i-Say Short Film Breaks, to our live screenings! The first edition was won by THE STORY OF 90 COINS, while the 2018 edition was won by TIME 2 SPLIT.
DXC Technology, Casa Pariurilor and eFortuna joined us in 2018, we've increased our prizes FIVE TIMES, to $1500, while the number of received submissions for the 6th edition reached the stunning 3851!
For 2019 we're increasing the prizes once again, reaching a RECORD total prizes of $3000. That's ten times more than the prizes we started with just two years ago, in 2016!
In 2019, after a few years of testing, screening films in 19 communities from 7 countries (Nepal, Indonesia, Kenya, Tanzania, Romania, Senegal and Guatemala) in 2019 we launched our Patreon page with the aim to create recurrent cinema experiences in 50 communities from 17 countries.
We’ve also organized an event for the Romanian Mental Health community, in front of a full house, in partnership with The Estuar Foundation and Mental Health Europe, at ARCUB Bucharest.
And the cherry on top, for the first time in history, we organized a film screening at 5364 meters, in the Everest Base Camp, in October! Most probably, the highest films were ever screened!