Here are some short film websites:
1. http://www.youtube.com/ – the films showed in this website vary from person to person. People based their films on comedy, drama, documentaries and mini genres. Anyone can view the films and any one can upload them. To upload films n YouTube the registration is free, don’t have to pay for anything and a lot of people go on YouTube to watch videos so it would be a more likely chance that people would watch your video. If your registered already then you can watch other peoples videos and write a comment about it. Good way of getting feedback from across the world and its mostly known.
2. www.pbs.org/independentlens - the films showed in this website shows a variety of films and they have categorised it so their audience can chose the specific films they would like to watch. Topics: African American films, Arts & Culture, Asian American films, biographies & profiles, drama, health, immigration, international, labour, Latino, native American/Inuit, pacific islander, politics & government etc.
3. http://www.channel4.com/film/shortsandclips/shorts.html - the short films shown on this website are the top 10 short films that are voted by the public at home. You can see the short films and write a review. They don’t have many videos posted on their website but they update the films as much as they can. You can’t see much on this website, I wouldn’t use it to watch short films they mainly show their own produced films which are full length films.
4. http://www.ukscreen.com/ - the films in this website are categorised as film, documentary, animation and music videos. If you want to upload your videos there’s a £15 charge but it’s free to watch the films. They provide copyrights and advertise your film across the Internet so your film gets out there. Good way of starting up your film career. Good website to look at short films, there’s a lot of variety of films shown on this website.
5. http://www.nzshortfilm.com/ - short films shown on this website are drama, comedy, animated, music, documentary and just experiments. Every video shown is a short film, so they have a larger variety of films to show.
