Short Film City 2010, 9th – 13th November

Entry now open to Short Film CIty 2010
We want to bring the best new short films from the UK and across the world to Leeds for Short FIlm City 2010. Entry is now open through the Leeds International Film Festival page on Withoutabox - click on the icon in the left margin for access. You can still check out the full line-up for Short FIlm City 2009 on this site, including all the prize winners.

What is Short Film City? 
Short films are the seeds of cinema, the world's filmmaking talents grow through making them, and the first shoots of cinema itself were in their form. A fact known to very few filmgoers, the city of Leeds was the location for the first ever moving images, produced in 1888 by Louis le Prince who disappeared mysteriously three years later before he could patent his inventions.

Short Film City celebrates the achievement of the French pioneer through the Louis le Prince International Competition, this year presenting six programmes of outstanding visions from new and emerging talent. Animation and experimental shorts have their own international competition programmes, and on the Short Film City Finale Day of 14th November the selection of UK and Yorkshire short gems are revealed. Outside of the competitions, Short Film City 2009 presents three special selections: the major Romanian Retrospective, the work of the famous National Film School of Łódź in Poland, and African shorts from the last ten years.

23rd Leeds International Film Festival
Short Film City is part of Leeds International Film Festival which also features the Official Selection, Cinema Versa, Fanomenon, Thought Bubble, and Cherry Kino. Full details of the Film Festival are available on www.leedsfilm.com.