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THE FESTIVAL
 


BEST FILMINUTE We always set a goal to bring together an international jury as critically insightful and creative as any jury of any major festival. This year we welcome renowned Taiwanese director HOU HSIAO-HSIEN, acclaimed author JOHN VAILLANT, film journalist and FIPPRESCI Vice President BARBARA HOLLENDER, award-winning writer / director MOTKE DAPP, writer, artist & Santa Maddalena advisory board member NAYLA ELAMIN & last year's Best Filminute winner GUILLAUME RENUSSON. Together with John Ketchum and Sabaa Quao from Filminute, they will select the Best Filminute and will also award 5 Jury Commendations.
 


PEOPLE’S CHOICE – You decide! Audiences are encouraged to rate and comment on the films, as well as to vote for their favourite film in the collection. You will be presented with voting options at the end of each film. However, CHOOSE CAREFULLY! Because you only get ONE VOTE! And, as important as ever, SHARE your favorite films via social media. Filminute audiences grow dramatically when we share the films, and the filmmakers appreciate it!
 


TOP RATED - You decide! Audiences are encouraged to rate the films, from 1 - 5 stars, 5 being perfect!
 


CINECOUP

The CineCoup Film Accelerator delivers production financing and guaranteed distribution to indie filmmakers.
Since 2013, CineCoup has offered the annual CineCoup Prize (worth $2,500 CAN) to the film from our collection that they feel best exemplifies the qualities of innovation and courage in filmmaking, as well as development potential.
This year, the CineCoup team has awarded the CineCoup prize to A2042 from Spanish director, David Castro Gonzales. They praised the film's ability to pack so much narrative, emotional and production-value punch into a single shot, single actor, single take story. "Brilliant filmmaking," concluded one of their jury.
We encourage you to watch A2042 again  and to visit www.cinecoup.com to learn more about CineCoup's disruptive business model and latest films.
 


CINEUROPA SHORTS AUDIENCE AWARD AT FILMINUTE

Cineuropa Shorts is part of Cineuropa, the first European portal dedicated to cinema and audiovisual in 4 languages. This year they have chosen their 5 favourite European films and are encouraging audiences to send in their favourite choice as part of the "5 Minute Challenge"

 
FILMINUTE is the international one-minute film festival that challenges filmmakers, writers, animators, artists,designers, and creative producers to develop and submit the world's best one-minute films.
WHAT MAKES A GREAT ONE-MINUTE FILM? The best one-minute films resonate beyond one minute and affect audiences the same way any great film does. The challenge, of course, is to do it all in 60 seconds - no more, no less.

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FILMINUTE 2018 AWARDS ANNOUNCED! Congratulations to Best Filminute winner, Nuri Jeong, for her elegant and mysterious film, EDGE OF SEVENTEEN (South Korea). Congratulations, as well, to People’s Choice winner, Alejandro Itkin, for his timely and intense film, AIR TIME (Argentina). And to Mahdi Borjian, who has won the Top Rated Film award for the very moving SOUL MATE (Iran).
This year’s 5 Jury Commended winners are: CAR PARK BLUES (Thailand), THE THIEF (Norway), SOUL MATE (Iran), PASSING THE FOG (Iran), and ONE (Russia).
This year’s Cineuropa Audience Award goes to Antonio Panteras for his dark comedy, AL FINAL EXPLOTA UN GLOBO (Spain). The 2018 CineCoup Award for development will be announced November 20th.
Congratulations to all the winners and please, film fans, continue to watch, rate, comment and share the 2018 films!