short/age - Shortfilms for a New Age

'SHORT/AGE - Shortfilms for a New Age' it's a cinema-project-festival dedicated to short films. We have inherited the entire 7 year experience of Shortcutz Viseu Film Festival and with the same team but more diverse and wider goals. This is our agenda: - Offer a regular exhibition platform for Portuguese and foreign productions, both physical and online, responding to the need for disclosure that is urgent on this cultural area; - Assume SHORT/AGE as a relevant and fundamental instrument in Viseu's cultural growth strategy; - Encourage the writing of new arguments/scripts, with local and national authors, facilitating the intersection between several creators and different languages, simultaneously elevating the script-object to an artistic status and not just a tool to reach an end; - Promote and disseminate the discussion of the various aspects that move the Cinema, both technical and thematic; - Promote the creation of new audiences, including the youngest ones, creating an educated taste for cinema and mainly for national cinematography; - Dignify the presence of the guests of the technical and artistic teams of the films and privilege their contact with the public, offering a greater understanding of the creative process; - Contribute to the actual belonging of Viseu city to the national and international circuit of Portuguese and foreign short cinema exhibition; - Constitute itself as a national reference, with unique characteristics, continuing the good steps taken in 2020 with the creation of the www.shortage.online platform and all the work already developed in this context. Our platform/website it's dedicated to: - disclose Portuguese short films that are online and their authors. - record and divulge cinema-related short interviews under the shape of a Podcast. - reveal the Authors (directors, writers, cinematographers, musicians, etc) - publish and promote the new scripts that are made under our curatorship program.