What Only Shorts Can Do
What Only Shorts Can Do
- Date
- Feb 16th 2016
- With
- Maike Mia Höhne, Jukka-Pekka Laakso, Kathleen McInnis
The short film as a genre is alive and well - having enjoyed greater prominence and a resurgence in recent times. The format lends itself to expressive freedom and aesthetic exploration unbound by the often more traditional expectations of feature-length films. The curators and programmers of Berlinale Shorts, Toronto International Film Festival and Tampere Film Festival put their heads together to explore how filmmakers find the short form ideal for testing new ideas, exploding the limits of the genre and expanding the possibilities of cinematic storytelling.
Maike Mia Höhne
Maike Mia Höhne is a filmmaker, curator, mother. From 2007 to 2019 she was the curator and head of Berlinale Shorts. Now she is the artistic director the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg. She works as a curator and jury member for film funds and festivals around the world. As a professor of film, she teaches at the University of Applied Sciences Europe in Hamburg. Her curatorial focus is on politics, sex and feminism.
Jukka-Pekka Laakso
Jukka-Pekka Laakso is has been the festival director of the Tampere Film Festival since 2002. He also acts as the executive director for Pirkanmaa Film Centre, a non-profit organisation that runs an arthouse cinema, distributes films in Finland and works in media education.
Kathleen McInnis
Under the banner of her film publicity and festival strategies consulting company See-Through Films, McInnis and her team represent world cinema narrative, documentary and short films at festivals worldwide such as Sundance, Berlin, Karlovy Vary, and Toronto. She is also a shorts programmer at both Toronto International Film Festival and Hot Docs (Canada) and has previously been the Festival Director at Palm Springs ShortFest, Festival Director at Slamdance Film Festival, and Lead Programmer/Director of Publicity and Promotion at Seattle International Film Festival.