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MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival

Calls for Short Films From Irish Filmmakers in the World’s Very First Global Film Festival

Over 250 cinemas spanning 6 continents unite for One Week for One Film Festival.

Cinemas and theatres in Ireland invited to take part

Contact: Nicholas Mason. info@ManhattanShort.com Web: www.ManhattanShort.com

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New York, NY, March 2nd, 2010 - New York City’s MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival has issued a call for entries from filmmakers to represent Ireland to an audience of over 100,000 film lovers in over 250 cities spanning 6 continents. The festival runs the week of Sunday, September 26th to Sunday, October 3rd, 2010. Entry deadline is July 31, 2010.

Each year the MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival selects twelve short films from twelve separate countries and distributes them to over 250 cinemas spanning six continents, including cinemas in all fifty states of the USA. It is the world’s first global film festival. Audience members at each cinema are handed a voting card upon entry and asked to vote for the one film they think is best. Votes are then sent to the MANHATTAN SHORT’s headquarters in New York City where the winner is announced on Sunday, October the 3rd at 10:00 pm EST.

In 2009, the Festival conducted 595 shows in 173 cities spanning 5 continents in one week. This year the Fest expects to add 50 additional cinemas as well as another continent so well over 600 shows in one week are planned for the 2010 Festival.

“For a filmmaker with a short film, the MANHATTAN SHORT is a unique opportunity to showcase your film to an unprecedented international audience. A festival not just taking place in over 250 cities in the world, but also being judged by audiences in places such as, Ayers Rock Australia, Beijing, Moscow, Buenos Aires and all 50 states of the USA. If you win that crowd over, you must be doing something right,” said Festival’s founding director Nicholas Mason.

Films must be produced in 2009-2010 and be no longer than 18 minutes. For more information and entry forms go to www.ManhattanShort.com.

Festival invites venues in Ireland to join MANHATTAN SHORT

MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival is also inviting cinemas, theatres and venues with digital projection in Ireland to represent their country in this event. Deadline for venues to book dates is June 30th, 2010.

For more information please contact the MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival via email at info@ManhattanShort.com.

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