Case study - Encounters International film festival

The Encounters international film festival is an event which is currently in its 16th Anniversary year, with its next annual festival taking place in Bristol during 16th & 21st November 2010. The festival is now one of the largest of its kind and the first of them in 1995 was originally planned to only be a one-off event to coincide with the centenary of cinema, but has been put on each year since.


The short films which are entered into this festival can be put into two categories. The first category is: “Brief encounters” - these films can be of any genre from everything from documentary style to drama as well as animated films. The other category is specifically for animated films only and is appropriately named “animated encounters”. The categories used to be run as two separate festivals, but were joined together in 2006.

Official website: http://www.encounters-festival.org.uk