AboutHyunjin Jo Expertise Questions related to the business and production of movies, especially independent feature and short films, including screenwriting questions.
Purely technical questions will be rejected, but possibly passed onto the main question pool.
Experience Motion Picture Writer, Director and Producer. Sundance Institute Lab Finalist. Production (including scripts) and Entertainment Career Consultant, Motivational Speaker and Panelist.
Education/Credentials New York University Tisch School of the Arts
Expert: Hyunjin Jo Date: 12/16/2007 Subject: Short Films
Question Aside from the internet what are the distribution possibilities of short films?
Answer Hi Jason,
TV is the first distributor that come to mind.
Pay cable channels, such as HBO, Showtime, Starz, etc., purchase shorts to fill in the time between feature movies--in order for the feature movies to start at the hour and half hours.
Additionally, many cable providers acquire shorts for their own entertainment programming, such as ON-DEMAND services, which they provide as one of their "free" services to their paying subscribers.
Airlines also purchase shorts for their entertainment platforms, either before and/or after feature movies or shown on their own for shorter flights. Just be aware that most of the shorts purchased for airline flights usually fall under the PG/G rating, because of the obvious wide ranged audience on a flight.
There are production companies/distributors that do release collections of shorts directly to DVD, however with the increased usage of the internet, the frequency of shorts to DVDs have greatly decreased over the years.
