Short film agency Hamburg
The Hamburg Short Film Agency (KFA for short) is an association for the promotion and distribution of short films . It was founded in Hamburg in 1992 and sees itself as representing the interests of short film makers.
The short film agency has been operating a commercial short film rental company for cinemas and other venues in German-speaking countries since 1994. It supplies around 400 movie theaters. In 1996 and 2004 the federal government awarded her the award for this. The Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg received the German Innovation Award 2005 for the short film agency's online database. The Kurzfilmagentur Hamburg's Kurzfilmagentur Hamburg exclusively signs suitable short films and organizes the worldwide sale of their usage rights. Since 2006, the bilingual online sales database has enabled film buyers to research and view short films on the Internet in detail.
The Hamburg Short Film Agency currently maintains a short film database with around 48,000 titles and organizes the Hamburg International Short Film Festival and the affiliated Mo & Friese Children's Short Film Festival every year . The festival presents current, international short film productions in various competition categories, organizes retrospectives and special programs and sees itself as a communication forum for filmmakers and visitors from home and abroad.
Further activities and offers are:
- Information service - providing information on production, funding opportunities, marketing and sales of short films, script advice and peer review
- Short film school - practical film education in cooperation with Hamburg schools
- Short film research - topic and genre research, clarification of film rights and procurement of screening copies
The Hamburg Short Film Agency is supported by the Hamburg Cultural Authority and the Minister of State for Culture and Media (BKM). The association is a member of the working group Kino - Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater , AG Kurzfilm , AG Verleih , the coordination of European film festivals, the International Short Film Conference and the Short Circuit (European Network of Short Film and Video Art Organization).