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Tropfest SEA Announces New Competition Dates

Entries open May 6; new category for teens announced

30 March, Penang, Malaysia – Online submissions for Tropfest South East Asia, the region’s edition of the world’s largest short film festival, opens on 6 May. The change of submission dates and deadlines are to accommodate a new a teen category for filmmakers under the age of 18 years old.

The submission duration for both the main category and the teen category begins on 6 May, on www.tropfest.com/sea and closes 28 October. All residents and citizens of South East Asia are eligible for the competition. Read more…

“In the beginning, all films were short…” that’s the simplistic opening statement about the history of short films, screened on PBS Online Film Festival’s youtube channel.

Patrick Epino and Stephen Dypiangco continue their narration with several other interesting claims, such as that the French first popularised cinema (not Americans!), how and why the first science-fiction short film was made, and how experimental filmmaking began….