Manhattan Short Film Festival has long outgrown the boundaries of the New York City district.
The U.S. film directors have not even made it on this year’s list of best short filmmakers. Ten producers from Australia, Ireland, Mexico, the U.K., Croatia, France, Canada, Poland, Germany, and Italy will compete for the audience’s love and votes.
The festival takes place simultaneously in over 200 cities across the world.
The rules are simple: viewers vote for the movie they like the most right after the showing. Their votes are later sent to New York for a count. The film getting the most votes wins – no hot-shot experts or jury will intervene.
The shorts gig was started in 1997 by a guy named Nick Mason who placed a screen on his truck and showed a few short movies on one of the streets in Manhattan.
In Ukraine, the event will take place in seven cities: Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Lviv, Dnipropetrivsk, and Zaporizhya.
