CONGRATULATIONS FILMMAKERS!!

Taos Shortz Film Festival is honored to present your short film in the 2020 festival. You have made the cut of a select few. We know you spent many hours on your film and we want to present your film in the VERY BEST possible light, in the way you have intended, so please try to follow these guidelines.

FINAL FILM PRESENTATION
Taos Shortz Film Fest final projection is from a HardDiskDrive(HDD) media server only.
We DO NOT project DVDs.
We DO NOT project BluRay Disk.
We DO NOT project tape or film of any kind.

We would like to project the HIGHEST QUALITY short you have available.
Please send a copy of the VERY BEST QUALITY you have ( in order of our preference)

• DCP File
• HDD file

Please send the digital file via

• flash drive…( we will return this to you after the festival)
• small hard drive.. ( we will return this to you after the festival)
• direct download link ( see below))

DIGITAL FILE GUIDELINES:

Our venue is a state of the art 4k DCI compliant theatre.

We  screen DCPs ONLY

If you already have a DCP,

please make sure your DCP is fully compliant with DCI file naming and color space standards and is fully playable from an HDD. The last thing we want is an unplayable file. Please do NOT install any key or time code restrictions on the file. We will NOT screen any locked or time restricted file. Please Read the Last sentence again.!!! There is no need to send the DCP files in a  CRU Linux based DCI hard drive. We pull all files off your drive and put on our drives for projection. Please also send a non-DCP backup version of your film in a mp4 or mov container.

If you DO NOT have a DCP,

Please send the Very Best Quality version you have. If the  On-Line screener that we received from you in the initial submission process is the VERY BEST QUALITY that you have, then there is no need to send us anything else. Just let us know. Otherwise send a Data File in a MOV or MP4 container.
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We DO NOT accept RAW or LOG data files. We DO NOT accept FCP or AdobePP Projects

Please DO NOT send audio encoded to DTS, as our venues do not support this.

We accept all resolutions up to 4k, just about any frame rate, just about any bitrate. If your short is not within standard formats please contact us and see if we can make it work.

If possible, please strip any watermarks, color bars, tone test, FBI warnings, or “do not copy” splash screens.  Please remove all laurels and award winning tags. It just makes my life easier.

Again, We DO NOT project DVD or Blu Ray.
We transcode those to one of our standards and project that file.

SUBTITLES
If you have subtitles, Please use standard subtitle formats for DCPs. For- Non DCP it is preferred to embed in them a Mp4 container along with an mp4 video or HDmpeg stream. You may also burn into image if possible.

If none of this make sense, please talk to your editor or post house. They should know exactly what we mean. Or have them contact us if you have any questions!

DATA DOWNLOAD

You may  send your completed file via your own upload link, please contact filmmaker@taosshortz.com with the link and password.

• Create a HIGH QUALITY file named “your film ”
• Please name your file(s) to some very understandable name.
• (i.e. “myfilm_h264_Highrez_finalprojection.mp4” )
• Please use the HIGHEST Quality you have, many sites transcode down.
• Upload the file(s) to the host/site of your choice. ie WeTransfer, Mega.NZ, Dropbox
• Please allow FULL downloading capabilities to the ORIGINAL file. Please Do NOT “share” folder but allow for download link.
• You may upload any EPK material if you wish.

SHIPPING ADDRESS

If you prefer, you can also send the digital file or HHD disk to

USMAIL or FedEx /UPS

Taos Short Film Festival
HC 81 # 2
1977 Old State Rd 3
Questa, NM 87556

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. We are here to help.

Long Live Indie Shortz!!

Duprelon “tizzz” Tizdale

575-770-1535
tizzz@taosshortz.com

Program1    Program2    Program3    Program4    Program5    …NM…

1500 Miles             Chris Duncan US 17:30   Program5

#SuperInLove         Curro Bernabéu  Spain  10:00   Program3

A Grand Journey       Amon Barker  US     15:00   …NM…

A Man Never…           Eugene Izraylit     France  13:31    Program3

A Song Can’t Burn        Roscoe Neil   UK/Lebanon     11:46  Program2

Alice and Lewis            Elina Street  US/France 15:40  Program5

Asia A                Andrew Reid  US  20:00   Program5

Ato San Nen (Three More Years)     Pedro Collantes    Spain     26:00  Program3

Beat Blue           Julian Alexander      US/NM      15:30   …NM…

Bitchboy                 Måns Berthas         Sweden    15:00  Program2

Bye Bye Les Puceaux  (Bye Bye Virgins)      Pierre Boulanger  France  23:00  Program2

Caught In The Chamber        Nathan Johnson   US  6:50  Program2

Color Me Done          Dominic Garcia   US/NM  9:25   …NM…

Custodia Compartida (Joint Custody)    Carlus Fábrega   Spain  5:50   Program1

Deep Dive        Mohammad Soleimanifeijani  US/Iran  6:06  Program4

El Aguacate (Avocado)        Darwin Serink    US 10:00  Program4

Evelyn X Evelyn           Eric Pumphrey  US  13:10  Program4

Evie           Mike Peebler  US  10:00   Program3

Fauve (Fox)         Jeremy Comte    Canada  15:52  Program3

For A Better Life       Yasmin Mistry       US      9:32  Program4

Framed         Marco Jemolo  Italy  7:00   Program3

Futures          Daniel Marc Janes    UK   12:50   Program1

Generations     Sune Sorensen   Denmark  11:00  Program4

Gifts From Babylon           Bas Ackermann    Gambia  23:47  Program4

Golden Girl       Chiara Fleischhacker   Germany     12:52   Program2

Grief (A place none of us know until we reach it)     Alexandra Matheo   Greece   8:00  Program4

Jacob’s Kiss      Michael Figari   US   12:31   Program5

L’Homme et le Poisson (The Man and the Fish)    Lewis Leon     Canada   4:08   Program5

Last Taxi Dance       Brayden Yoder   US/Hawaii  18:04  Program3

Les Trompes de Ma Mere (Under Mom’s Skirt)       Sarah Heitz de Chabaneix       France     12:10  Program2

Mandalina Ağacı  (The Mandarin Tree)       Cengiz Akaygün   Germany/Turkey   17:58   Program1

Mni Wiconi: Water Is Life             Miguel Antonio Genz   US   2:44   Program5

Mr. Sushi             Joshua Sallach   US/NM   13:00   …NM…

My Paintbrush Bites              Joel Pincosy   US   16:03   Program5

New Mexico Rain: The Story of Bill and Bonnie Hearne              Bunee Tomlinson   US/NM   26:08  …NM…

Palaio Faliro          Kiki Shakti       US/NM/Taos  5:25   …NM…

Pile ou Face (Heads or Tails)        Fernand-Philippe Morin-Vargas  Canada   15:00   Program1

Platypus         Trevor Kristjanson    US    14:53   Program4

Reboot        Ellen Osborne    US    4:00   Program1

Skier    Anna Nosatova    Russia   13:07   Program5

Sorry For Your Loss     Lauren Bair   US   8:38  Program4

Stick Fighter       Mayo Whaley   US  9:39   …NM…

STOP    Steven DeGennaro    US   12:00   Program1

Tabu        Justin Spray   UK/Tanzania   14:20  Program3

Ten Hours       Trevor Morgan   US   16:17  Program1

The Blues Crab        Ari Rubenstein   US   13:42   Program1

The Cheech       Edward Tyndall   US   11:30   Program5

The Drink       Cosima Spender  UK   11:50   Program5

The One Where They Ride The Shuttle     Chad Thomas Wallin    US    4:51   Program3

The Shipment      Bobby Bala      Canada  25:00  Program1

The Sound        Antony Petrou    Cyprus    15:15   Program2

Trois Pages  (Three Pages)     Roger Gariépy     Canada  15:00  Program4

Tshweesh      Feyrouz Serhal    Lebanon    25:00   Program2

Zilly’s War          John Broadhead      US/NM       25:50   …NM…