A message from Doris Bauer & Daniel Ebner, and the whole Team of Vienna Shorts:

“The events of recent weeks have turned our plans for Vienna Shorts 2020 upside down. Considering all aspects that go along with an international event like our festival and taking into account the forecasts for the further development of the coronavirus pandemic, we have decided to rethink the 17th edition of the festival and make it online.

Together with several international festivals, we are currently developing our own streaming platform, which will enable both live streaming and on-demand offerings and will be available to a wide audience on the regular festival date—from 28 May to 2 June 2020—as well as our new website, which will go online gradually.

Reorganizing the festival, which usually attracts 650 film professionals every year and counts around 10,000 visits in five and a half days, at short notice is not only a technical challenge but also a tour de force for the entire team. We are therefore all the more pleased that many of our partners have already promised us their continued support and want to see and explore the potential of a digital festival infrastructure together with us. (…) We are currently working hard from our home offices to ensure that the films, their makers, the audience and our partners will have a good and festival-worthy platform at the end of May—with a new face, new ideas and new possibilities for cooperation.

Let’s stay physically at a distance and still closely connected!”

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