Vienna shorts
Vienna Shorts ( VIS ), until 2016 Vienna Independent Shorts , is an international short film festival that takes place every spring in Vienna . It is the largest festival for short film, animation and music video in Austria .
history
Vienna Independent Shorts took place for the first time in 2004. Several short film agencies in Vienna organized one day of the festival each. The program included 125 short films . The only venue that was continuously used from the first to the eighth festival edition is the Reformed City Church .
Since 2005, the festival has been organized by the Independent Cinema association founded by the organizers of the previous year . For the first time an international competition with 64 films was held. The fixed points of the coming years, which took place for the first time in 2005, included a retrospective of the Vienna University of Applied Arts and a cabaret cinema .
In the 2006 festival edition, 83 films were shown in the international competition. The Austrian director Mara Mattuschka was devoted to a retrospective and a regional focus on Southeast Europe . The film role of the 26 individual films by The Mozart Minute , which was produced on the occasion of Mozart's 250th birthday , celebrated its Vienna premiere at the festival. In 2006, other venues outside Vienna - in Dornbirn , Graz and Innsbruck - were also included in the display.
At Vienna Independent Shorts 2007, the international competition with 49 short films was supplemented for the first time by the Panorama section with exclusively Austrian short films. 23 films were included in the panorama. There were three retrospectives with short films by Paul Bush , Miranda July and Virgil Widrich . Ars Electronica organized one of several guest programs . As part of VIS on tour , Vienna Independent Shorts put together guest programs for the Wiener Festwochen , Forum Stadtpark , Crossing Europe and Diagonale in 2007, among others . The permanent festival office has been located in quartier21 in the MuseumsQuartier since 2007 .
In 2008 Vienna Independent Shorts opened in front of around 1,100 guests in the Wiener Gartenbaukino with the world premiere of the episode film Eleven Minutes . The Austrian-Swiss co-production was made on the occasion of the 2008 European Football Championship taking place in both countries . A country focus was also dedicated to Switzerland, for example a guest program from the Baden animation film festival Fantoche . Forza Bastia, a rarely shown documentary by Jacques Tati , was presented as part of a football thematic focus . Retrospectives on Chantal Akerman , Hubert Sielecki and Jerzy Kucia were also shown . A total of 921 films from 51 countries were submitted. In addition to the twenty special and guest programs, there were 47 films in the international competition and 33 films in the Panorama.
At the sixth edition of Vienna Independent Shorts in 2009, 311 short films were shown, 44 of them in international competition. 1,129 films from 54 countries were submitted. Thematic focus was dedicated to the memory of the years 1939 (beginning of the Second World War ) and 1989 (fall of the Berlin Wall ) as well as the USA and Russia . Retrospectives were dedicated to Ben Rivers , Norbert Pfaffenbichler and Lotte Schreiber and the California Institute of the Arts , among others . Since 2009 there has been a cooperation with the European Film Academy , which annually shows all films nominated for Best European Short Film at Vienna Independent Shorts.
In 2010, in addition to the international competition for fictional and documentary works, the festival introduced two new competition sections: the international animation avant-garde competition , curated by Thomas Renoldner , among others , and its own Austria competition for the Austrian short film award, which was awarded for the first time. An additional focus in 2010 was on short films on the subjects of dance and rhythm, among others in cooperation with the radio station FM4 and the film distributor sixpackfilm . Miranda Pennell and Thomas Draschan were dedicated to retrospectives. The Metro-Kino operated by Filmarchiv Austria became the new main venue in 2010.
For the eighth edition of the festival, which was overshadowed by funding problems, 2,457 films from 90 countries were submitted. The events were attended by over 6,600 spectators. One focus of the content was dedicated to new communities and mainly comprised the topic of short films in online communities and a retrospective of the Vienna Film Academy . Tribute programs were held for Nicolas Mahler and the British duo Semiconductor . The Canadian Pierre Hébert introduced himself with a live performance. With the Vienna Short Film Forum , a new range of events for the film industry was introduced.
In 2012 the festival, which was shortened from seven to five days, took place exclusively in the Gartenbaukino. In addition to the two international competitions and the national competition, there were key events under the title Pushing the Boundaries , which were dedicated to topics such as perversion, provocation, subversion and censorship. A symposium was held in cooperation with the Austrian Film Museum on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Oberhausen Manifesto . At the closing event Night of the Light , specially produced short films on the subject of energy were shown.
Under the main motto Strange Days ( strange days or extraordinary days ) and with more than 260 films from 40 countries, the 10th edition of the festival u. a. committed in the Künstlerhaus Kino and in the Gartenbaukino. Together with the Austrian Film Museum, the work of Irish animation filmmaker David OReilly was honored , and for the first time an entire day was devoted to music videos in the brut im Künstlerhaus . The main topic dealt with social, cultural and geopolitical upheavals as well as surreal cinema . Special programs for the anniversary included the year u. a. a cooperation with the donaufestival and the first Cat Video Festival Vienna in summer.
From more than 3,000 submissions for the first time, 306 short films were selected for the eleventh edition (May 23-29, 2014). The city cinema in the Künstlerhaus served as the main venue and festival center, and in terms of content - in addition to the five competitions - the focus was on radical and thus radical cinema. In the Austrian Film Museum, the German media artist Robert Seidel addressed the limits of digital animation . In addition, two programs were dedicated to the Filmmuseum co-founder Peter Konlechner on the occasion of his one-time short film week in 1962. Guest programs were nearing u. a. the work of the German-Polish animation artist Mariola Brillowska and the Beastie Boys co- founder Adam Yauch, midnight programs once again celebrated popular varieties of cinema. In addition to the Night of the Light , an Industry Day and a University Day were also held for the first time .
The 12th edition of VIS in 2015 was the most extensive edition to date with 320 films shown, more than 70 individual events and almost 10,000 visitors. The festival was mainly dedicated to the state of the art and thus to short films between art and cinema . The main venues were the city cinema in the Künstlerhaus and the newly opened Metro Kinokulturhaus , as a further venue, the plastic hall in the Künstlerhaus was transformed into a mixture of exhibition space and reclining cinema together with the Wiener Festwochen . The Oscar- nominated US animation filmmaker Don Hertzfeldt was a guest at the Austrian Film Museum . The Midnight Movies line was expanded to include three programs, with special attention paid to film mediation. A special program was devoted to three rediscovered films by the British comedian Peter Sellers . a. the Winterthur Short Film Festival , IndieLisboa and the Tampere Film Festival .
In January 2016, the Vienna Independent Shorts were included in the list of Academy Qualifying Festivals by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as the 86th and first Austrian film festival . In future, the winning films will automatically be qualified for the preselection of nominations in the short film category of the Oscar awards.
The 13th edition of the festival (May 25 to 31, 2016) featured 363 films in 54 film and 24 supporting events and again reached around 10,000 visitors over seven days. US animation filmmaker Bill Plympton was honored as a star guest on the occasion of his 70th birthday in the Austrian Film Museum , the second personalization was dedicated to the Belgian artist Anouk De Clercq . There was also a live act in the cinema with the New York rapper Zebra Katz . Apart from the competition, the focus was on the socio-political statement "Fear Is Not An Option". Guest programs for this came from the partner festivals Go Short in Nijmegen and Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montréal. The main venues were the Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus , the METRO Kinokulturhaus , the Gartenbaukino, the Film Museum and the Künstlerhaus .
The 14th edition of the festival will take place from June 1st to 6th in Vienna.
Award winners
| Award winner 2005 | |
| Golden Shorts - Audience Award | Stefan Wolner (Austria): Balls |
| Prize winner 2006 | |
| Golden Shorts - Audience Award | Alexis Ferrebeuf (France): Mort à l'écran |
| DocuZone Austria Short Film Award | Markus Oberndorfer (Austria): Untitled_in_Case_No_1 |
| the long short film award | Björn Kämmerer (Austria): Escalator |
| 2007 award winner | |
| Golden Shorts - Short Film Award of the City of Vienna | Marc Schaus (Belgium): Quelque chose en O |
| ray audience award | Astrid Rieger (Germany): Apple On a Tree / Mammal |
| 3 Short Film Awards |
Johanna Moder (Austria): Bring on the good life SI.SI. Klocker (Austria): Laura. Everything you always wanted to know about phone sex |
| 2008 award winners | |
| Golden Shorts - Short Film Award of the City of Vienna | Alina Rudnitskaya (Russia): Kak stat stervoi (Vixen Academy) |
| ray audience award | Radu Jude (Romania): Lampa cu caciula (The Tube with a Hat) |
| Hoanzl Audience Awards |
Umut Dağ (Austria): News of the death Katharina Swoboda (Austria): Transition |
| Hubert Sielecki Prize | Michael Wirthig (Austria): Inside 1014 |
| Prize winner 2009 | |
| Viennese short film award | Asitha Ameresekere (UK): 14 |
| ray audience award | Sasha Pirker (Austria): Angelica Fuentes, The Schindler House |
| Hoanzl audience award | Elizabeth Marre , Olivier Pont (France): Manon sur le bitume |
| Airbed Movie Award | Robert Pohle , Martin Hentze (Germany): Conny her pony |
| Prix Très Chic | Carsten Strauch (Germany): The green sheep |
| Hubert Sielecki Prize | Adnan Popović (Austria): King of the Waltz |
| Award winner 2010 | |
| Viennese short film award | Liza Johnson (USA): In the Air |
| ASIFA Austria Award | Joaquín Cociña , Cristóbal León , Niles Atallah (Chile): Lucía / Luis |
| Austrian short film award | Lisa Weber (Austria): If a ray of sun comes into the deep-freeze department and softens everything |
| LG audience award | Chris Niemeyer (Switzerland): Las Pelotas |
| Skip audience award | Joaquín Cociña , Cristóbal León , Niles Atallah (Chile): Lucía |
| ray audience award | Robert Cambrinus (Austria / UK): Commentary |
| Elfi von Dassanowsky Prize | Inger Lise Hansen (Norway): Parallax |
| Airbed Movie Award | Katharine Pfiel , Marlene Rudy , Andreea Jebelean , Barbara Wilding , Volker Buchgraber , Dominik Hartl (Austria): Guitar String Marked Fingerprints |
| Prix Très Chic | Florian Juri (Austria): Cerebral dichotomy |
| Award winner 2011 | |
| Viennese short film award | Nicolas Provost (Belgium): Stardust |
| ASIFA Austria Award | David OReilly (Germany): The External World |
| Austrian short film award | Peter Tscherkassky (Austria): Coming Attractions |
| Citroën audience award | Rungano Nyoni (Zambia): Mwansa the Great |
| Skip audience award | David OReilly (Germany): The External World |
| ray audience award | Christoph Schwarz (Austria): Supercargo |
| Elfi von Dassanowsky Prize | Annick Blanc (Canada): Au milieu de nulle part ailleurs |
| VAM young talent award | Christoph Schwarz (Austria): Supercargo |
| Airbed Movie Award | Susi Sie (Germany): Float |
| Prix Très Chic | Erik Eriksson , Rune Eriksson (Norway): Standup Comedy On Mars / Hand of God / Norwegian Shorts With No Ending: The 50 Years Anniversary of Annecy Int. Animation Festival Edition |
| Prize winner 2012 | |
| Viennese short film award | Jan Czarlewski (Poland / Switzerland): L'Ambassadeur & moi |
| ASIFA Austria Award | Ruth Lingford (Great Britain / USA): Little Deaths |
| Austrian short film award | Gabriele Mathes (Austria): Message in a bottle |
| Jameson Audience Award | Samuel Tilman (Belgium): Nuit blanche |
| Skip audience award | Marta Pajek (Poland): Sleepincord |
| ray audience award | Dinko Draganovic (Austria): Tatin Ponos |
| Elfi von Dassanowsky Prize | Ruth Lingford (UK / USA): Little Deaths |
| VAM young talent award | Katharina Gruzei (Austria): The workers leave the factory |
| Special prize from the Vienna Film Academy | Patrick Vollrath (Austria): This film is a compilation of DV cassettes that were auctioned at an online auction |
| Night of the Light jury award | Eva Chytilek (Austria): Nightfall |
| Audience Award Night of the Light | Willi Kubica (Austria): A festival of cables and plugs |
| Airbed Movie Award | L'Ogre (France / USA): 70 million |
| Prix Très Chic | Johannes Nyholm (Sweden): Las Palmas |
| Prize winner 2013 | |
| Viennese short film award | Fyzal Boulifa (Morocco / Great Britain): The Curse |
| ray audience award Fiction Documentary | Robert Cambrinus (Austria): I can't cry much louder than this |
| ASIFA Austria Award | Don Hertzfeldt (USA): It's such a beautiful day |
| Artist-in-Residence grant | Mihai Grecu , Thibault Gleize (France): Exland |
| ray audience award animation avant-garde | Joseph Pierce (Great Britain): The Pub |
| Elfi von Dassanowsky Prize | Karolina Glusiec (Great Britain): Velocity |
| Austrian short film award | Ulrike Putzer , Matthias van Baaren (Austria): Hands to Heaven |
| Prize of the youth jury | Ulrike Kofler (Austria): We fly |
| VAM young talent award | Kurdwin Ayub (Austria): Family vacation |
| ray Audience Award Austria Competition | Ulrike Kofler (Austria): We fly |
| Austrian Music Video Award | Daniel Moshel (Austria): Metube: August sings Carmen 'Habanera' (Music: August Schram ) |
| Audience Award Music Video International | Alma Har'el (Israel): Fjögur Píanó (Music: Sigur Rós ) |
| Night of the Light jury award | Reinhold Bidner , Georg Hobmeier (Austria): Impulses |
| Audience Award Night of the Light | Gabriel Tempea (Austria): Yogurt with wax |
| Prix Très Chic | Marion Pfaus (Germany): The Vodka Diary |
| 2014 award winners | |
| Viennese short film award | Aniela Gabryel (Poland): Leciec, nie leciec (To fly or not to fly) |
| Audience Award Fiction Documentary | Guido Hendrikx (Netherlands): Escort |
| ASIFA Austria Award | Michel Klöfkorn (Germany): xx-xx - x - woven paper |
| Artist-in-Residence grant | Atsushi Wada (Japan): Anomalies |
| Audience award animation avant-garde | Réka Bucsi (Hungary): Symphony no.42 |
| Elfi von Dassanowsky Prize | Jennifer Reeder (USA): A Million Miles Away |
| Austrian short film award | Christiana Perschon (Austria): Noema |
| Prize of the youth jury | Christiana Perschon (Austria): Noema |
| VAM young talent award | Iris Blauensteiner (Austria): Sweating |
| ray Audience Award Austria Competition | Christiana Perschon (Austria): Noema |
| Austrian Music Video Award | Antonin B. Pevny (Austria): Maschin (music: picture book ) |
| Audience Award Music Video International | Carl Roosens , Noémie Marsily (Belgium): Our Lights (Music: BRNS ) |
| Best college film | Peter Brunner (Austria): milk teeth |
| Night of the Light jury award | Lena Weiss (Austria): Gatos de luz |
| Audience Award Night of the Light | Lena Weiss (Austria): Gatos de luz |
| Prix Très Chic | Adrian Thiessen (Canada): The Auteurs of Christmas |
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| Award winner 2015 | |
| Viennese short film award | Fabian Kaiser (Switzerland): De Schnuuf (The Breath) |
| Audience Award Fiction Documentary | Morgan Knibbe (Netherlands): Shipwreck |
| ASIFA Austria Award | Rainer Kohlberger (Austria): Moon Blink |
| Artist-in-Residence grant | Peter Millard (Great Britain): Fruit Fruit |
| Audience award animation avant-garde | Don Hertzfeldt (USA): World of Tomorrow |
| Elfi von Dassanowsky Prize | Konstantina Kotzamani (Greece): Washingtonia |
| Austrian short film award | Sebastian Brameshuber (Austria): Of Stains, Scrap & Tires |
| Prize of the youth jury | Christoph Rainer (Austria): Pitter Patter Goes My Heart |
| VAM young talent award | Jola Wieczorek (Austria): List do Polski (Letter to Poland) |
| Audience Award Austria Competition | Christoph Schwarz (Austria): Beingwhale |
| Austrian Music Video Award | Stephanie Winter (Austria): Tristes Deserts - A tale robots (Music: August feat. Austrian Apparel ) |
| Audience Award Music Video International | Hiro Murai (Japan): Never Catch me (Music: Flying Lotus ) |
| Night of the Light jury award | Nicola von Leffern , Jakob Carl Sauer (Austria): Mafi Kharaba |
| Audience Award Night of the Light | Georg Blume , Anna Hawliczek (Austria): Iguana Imperialista |
| Prix Très Chic | Ernst Palicek (Austria): Summer in Vienna (prod.By 08) |
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| Prize winner 2016 | |
| Austrian Short Film Award (Fiction) | Sélim Azzazi (France): Ennemis interieurs |
| Austrian Short Film Award (Animated) | Karl Lemieux , David Bryant (Canada): Quiet Zone |
| Vienna International Short Film Award | Mahdi Fleifel (Denmark, Palestine): A Man Returned |
| Viennese short film award national | Maria Luz Olivares Capelle (Argentina, Austria): Forest of Echoes |
| ASIFA Austria Award | Siegfried A. Fruhauf (Austria): Vintage Print |
| Artist-in-Residence grant | Celine Devaux (France): Le repas dominical |
| Elfi von Dassanowsky Prize | Alexandra Gerbaulet (Germany): Shift |
| Prize of the youth jury | Paul Wenninger (Austria): Uncanny Valley |
| Young Talent Award | Peter Kutin , Florian Kindlinger (Austria): Desert Bloom |
| Audience Award Austria Competition | Armin Thalhammer (Austria): Cerro Ricco The Silver Mountain |
| Audience Award Fiction Documentary | Daina Oniunas-Pusić (Croatia): Zvjerka |
| Audience award animation avant-garde | Celine Devaux (France): Le repas dominical |
| International Music Video Competition | TAKOM, Daito Manabe and MIKIKO (USA, Japan): Cold Stares (Music: Nosaj Thing feat. Chance the Rapper + The O'My’s ) |
| Austrian Music Video Award | Florian Pochlatko (Austria): God of Ghosts / Nu Renegade (Music: Zebra Katz x DJ Leila ) |
| Audience Award Music Video International | Ian Pons Jewell (UK): Deep Down Low (Music: Valentino Khan ) |
| Night of the Light jury award | Lisbeth Kovacic (Austria): #theircatsaswell |
| Audience Award Night of the Light | Michał Błaszczyk (Poland): How my Grandma went electric |
| Prix Très Chic | Daniel Moshel (Austria): MeTube2: August Sings Carmina Burana |
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| Award winner 2017 | |
| Austrian Short Film Award (feature film) | Gabriel Abrantes (France, Great Britain, Portugal): A Brief History of Princess X |
| Austrian Short Film Award (animation) | David OReilly (Ireland, United States): Everything |
| Austrian Short Film Award (Documentation) | Patrick Bresnan (United States): The Rabbit Hunt |
| Vienna International Short Film Award | Patrick Bresnan (United States): The Rabbit Hunt |
| Viennese short film award national | Veronika Schubert (Austria): First and foremost |
| ASIFA Austria Award | Steven Woloshen (Canada): Casino |
| Artist-in-Residence grant | Boris Labbé (Spain): Orogenesis |
| Elfi von Dassanowsky Prize | Maite Alberdi & Giedre Žickyte (Chile, Denmark, Italy, Lithuania): Yo no soy de aqui |
| Prize of the youth jury | Paul Ploberger (Austria): Beer & Calippo |
| Young Talent Award | Sara Kern (Croatia, Slovenia, Austria): Srecno, Orlo! (Good luck, Orlo!) |
| Audience award | Nagahisa Makoto (Japan): And So We Put Goldfish In the Pool |
| International Music Video Competition | Guillaume & Jonathan Alric (France): Territory (Music: The Blaze ) |
| Austrian Music Video Award | Florian Kindlinger & Peter Kutin (Austria): BulletProof (Music: VENTIL ) |
| Prix Très Chic | Alexander Gratzer (Austria): In the living room |
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| Prize winners 2018 | |
| Viennese short film award | Diogo Baldaia (Portugal): Miragem Meus Putos (Mirage My Bros) |
| Vienna Short Film Award - ASIFA Austria Award | Nikita Diakur (Germany): Ugly |
| Vienna Short Film Award - Best Austrian Film | Leonhard Müllner , Robin Klenger (Austria): Operation Jane Walk |
| Vienna Short Film Award - International Music Video Award | Tommy Cash (Estonia): Pussy Money Weed-Tommy Cash |
| Vienna Short Film Award - Austrian Music Video Award | Patryk Senwicki (Austria): Frizzle Frizz-KIDS N CATS |
| Vienna Short Film Award - Best VR / 360 ° Film / Artist-in-Residence Scholarship | Alla Kovgan (Finland): Devil's Lungs |
| Jury Prize - Short Film | Jeremy Comte (Canada): Fauve |
| Jury Prize - Short Documentary | Ryan McKenna (Canada): Voces del Secuestro (Voices Of Kidnapping) |
| Jury Prize - Animated Film | Nikita Diakur (Germany): Ugly |
| Special Prize - Best Director (sponsored by The Elfi Dassanowsky Foundation ) | Amanda Nell Eu (Malaysia): Lagi Senang Jaga Sekandang Lembu (It's Easier To Raise Cattle) |
| Special price - price for a special achievement / artist-in-residence grant | Maria Molina (Netherlands): Digital Trauma (And The Crystal Image) |
| Special award - best newcomer | Michaela Taschenk (Austria): Doppelganger |
| Special award - Keep It Short Award | Stefan-Manuel Eggenweber , Stephan Lager (Austria): Ginger Against Everything |
| Special Prize - VIS Art Scholars EFA 18 | Duncan Cowles , Ross Hogg |
| Audience Award - VIS Audience Award | Benoît Grimalt (France): Retour à Genoa (Back To Genoa City) |
| Audience Award - ORF.AT Audience Award | Fabian Lang (Austria): Supernaked |
| Audience Award - Prix Très Chic | Puppie Krammer (Austria): Lolana-Rising |
| Prize winners 2019 | |
| Viennese short film award | Phạm Ngọc Lân (Vietnam): Một Khu Đất Tốt (Blessed Land) |
| Vienna Short Film Award - ASIFA Austria Award | Martina Scarpelli (Italy): Egg |
| Vienna Short Film Award - Best Austrian Film | Nicole Foelsterl (Austria): Actually passed |
| Vienna Short Film Award - Austrian Music Video Award | Anja Plaschg and Ioan Gavriel for Italy & (This Is) Water by Soap & Skin |
| Special Prize - Best Director (sponsored by The Elfi Dassanowsky Foundation ) | Nicole Foelsterl (Austria): Actually passed |
| Audience Award - VIS Audience Award | Martina Scarpelli (Italy): Egg |
| Audience Award - ORF.AT Audience Award | Alexander Gratzer (Austria): Applesauce |
| Audience Award - Prix Très Chic | Anna Mantzaris (Norway): Enough |
| Vimeo Staff Pick Award | Ross Hogg (UK): 4: 3 |
| Prize of the youth jury | Bernhard Wenger (Austria): Guy proposes to his girlfriend on a mountain |
| Special Mention - International Competition - Fiction & Documentary | Alice Fargier : Retour au Pays des Merveilles (Back to Wonderland) |
| Special Mention - International Competition - Animation Avantgarde | Sophie Koko Gate : Slug Life |
| Honorable Mention - Austria Competition | Siegmund Skalar : Hörmanns (Hoermanns) |
| Honorable Mention - Austrian Music Video Award | Rupert Höller : Wannabe - Leyya |
| Jury Prize - International Competition - Fiction & Documentary | Kevin Jerome Everson , Claudrena N. Harold (USA): Black Bus Stop |
| Jury Prize - International Competition - Animation Avantgarde | Shen Jie (China): Splash |
| Jury Prize - Austrian Competition | Grzegorz Kielawski , Alexander Bayer: Nuit |
See also
literature
- Philipp Ikrath: Consumer-oriented marketing policy of Austrian independent film festivals . Diploma thesis, Vienna 2005.
Web links
- Vienna Independent Shorts website (German / English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Martin Thomson: Kurzfilm-Cordoda . ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Schnitt - Das Filmmagazin . 2008, accessed June 4, 2011.
- ↑ Opening of the 5th Vienna Short Film Festival: around 1,100 guests . In: derStandard.at . May 28, 2008, accessed June 4, 2011.
- ↑ 8th Vienna Short Film Festival VIS closes with a record number of visitors . In: derStandard.at . June 1, 2011, accessed June 4, 2011.
- ↑ VIS - main prizes for Austria and Switzerland . In: kurier.at . May 31, 2015, accessed September 2, 2015.
- ↑ Der Standard : Vienna Independent Shorts: Winners qualified for Oscars in future - derstandard.at/2000028891770/Vienna-Independent-Shorts-Gewinner-kuenftig-fuer-Oscars-qualified , January 12, 2016
- ↑ APA / Vienna Online: “Fear is not an option” at the “Vienna Independent Shorts” short film festival 2016. May 19, 2016, accessed on April 19, 2017 (German).
- ↑ VIS 2019 award winners . Retrieved June 3, 2019.
- ↑ orf.at: VIS conclusion: rain of prizes for two women directors . Article dated June 2, 2019, accessed June 3, 2019.
